University of California, Riverside

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University of California, Riverside

Motto	Fiat Lux ("Let There Be Light")
Established	1954
Type	Public
Endowment	$153.7 million [1]
Chancellor	France A. Córdova
Faculty	650
Undergraduates	14,780
Postgraduates	2,083
Location	Riverside and Palm Desert, California, U.S.
Campus	Suburban, 1,160 acres (4.7 km²) in Riverside; rural in Palm Desert
Athletics	The Highlanders
Mascot	Scotty the bear
Website	www.ucr.edu

The University of California, Riverside, is a public coeducational university whose main campus is in a suburban district of the city of Riverside, California. There is a branch campus in Palm Desert. It is one of ten University of California campuses and is commonly known as UCR or UC Riverside. Founded in 1907 as the University of California Citrus Experiment Station, it is the oldest research presence of the UC system in Southern California and enrolls the most diverse student body of all the UC campuses.

Contents 1 History 1.1 The Citrus Experiment Station 1.2 Founding of a liberal arts college 1.3 UCR as a comprehensive university 1.4 Tidal Wave II to today 2 Campus 2.1 Main campus 2.1.1 Botanic Gardens 2.2 UCR Palm Desert 3 Organization 3.1 Administrative heads of UC Riverside 3.2 Academic colleges, divisions, and schools 4 Academics 4.1 Faculty demographics and distinctions 4.2 Admissions 4.3 Rankings 4.4 Research areas 4.4.1 Air Pollution Research Center 4.4.2 Native American Studies 4.4.3 UC Mexus 4.4.4 Riverside Regional Technology Park 4.5 Educational Initiatives 4.5.1 Thomas Haider Program in Biomedical Sciences 4.5.2 Labor Studies and Marxist Studies 4.5.3 Proposed professional schools 4.5.4 International initiatives 5 Libraries and collections 6 Student Life 6.1 Student Demographics 6.2 Athletics 6.3 Student organizations 6.4 Housing 6.5 Campus security 7 Noted alumni 7.1 Academia, science, and technology 7.2 Arts, film, and literature 7.3 Athletics 7.4 Business and politics 8 Noted faculty 9 External links 10 References

[edit] History

Main article: History of the University of California, Riverside

[edit] The Citrus Experiment Station

On February 14, 1907, the University of California Board of Regents established a citrus experiment and research station on 23 acres of land on the east slope of Mt. Rubidoux in Riverside. Citrus experimentation in Riverside had been carried on for many decades before; for example, the navel orange was first grown in the United States from cuttings imported from Brazil and planted in Riverside in the 1870s. [2] [3] The purpose of the new station was to conduct experiments in fertilization, irrigation and crop improvement. In 1917, the laboratory was moved to the west slope of the Box Springs Mountains. In later years, air-pollution mitigation was added to its list of tasks.

[edit] Founding of a liberal arts college

In the late 1940s, a group of citrus growers and civic and business leaders lobbied the state legislature for the creation of a small liberal arts college attached to the UC Citrus Experiment Station. The UC system was experiencing a massive influx of students as former servicemen took advantage of the 1945 GI Bill, and a state education committee was scouting out locations for a new campus. In 1949, California Governor Earl Warren signed legislation approving the establishment of a college of letters and science in Riverside. Six million dollars was initially allocated for construction, but that figure was later reduced to $4 million.^[1]

Gordon S. Watkins, dean of the College of Letters and Science at UCLA, organized the new college at Riverside and became UCR's first provost, the administrative head, presiding over the college's opening with 65 faculty members and 131 students in February 1954.^[2]

[edit] UCR as a comprehensive university

In 1958, the Regents designated Riverside as a general UC campus. Herman Theodore Spieth, UCR's first chancellor, oversaw the beginnings of the school's transition to full university status in accordance with the developing California Master Plan for Higher Education.^[4]

Ivan Hinderaker, UCR's second chancellor, was installed on September 29, 1964, the same year the Free Speech Movement erupted at UC Berkeley. While there were confrontations between student activists and the campus administration at UCR in the 1960s, they did not occur on the dramatic scale of political protests at larger UC campuses. Hinderaker cooperated with student activists throughout his administration.^[5]

According to an interview with Hinderaker recorded in 1998, growth towards full university status was unexpectedly hindered in 1972 when the mayor of Riverside asked Governor Ronald Reagan to declare the South Coast air basin a smog disaster area. Riverside thereupon gained a reputation for severe pollution, a condition that hampered recruitment of both students and faculty. For a while, rumors circulated that the campus would close. Hinderaker said he developed UCR’s innovative biomedical program and popular business administration program partly to lessen the enrollment problems created by Riverside's poor air quality.^[6] He also established UCR’s graduate schools of education and administration and streamlined UCR’s departmental structure during this period.

The state’s ability to fund higher education through the 1980s was drastically reduced by the 1978 passage of Proposition 13, a California ballot measure that cut property taxes. Budgets were reduced for UCR, along with all other public education institutions in California. After Hinderaker retired in 1979, a series of chancellors served relatively brief appointments through the 1980s. Enrollment made modest but sustained annual gains through the decade, more than doubling by 1991.^[7]

[edit] Tidal Wave II to today

A statewide recession in the early nineties brought drastic cuts to student services and financial aid programs as well as significant increases in fees, which caused a reduction in enrollment throughout the UC and California State University systems. With the improvement of the economy in 1994, the UC campuses began receiving more applications than they had anticipated.^[8] This surge became known as "Tidal Wave II" (the first "tidal wave" of students having been the Baby Boom generation born in the post-World War II era). To help the UC system accommodate this growth, planners targeted UCR for an annual growth rate of 6.3 percent, the fastest in the UC system and anticipated that 19,900 students would be enrolled at UCR by 2010.^[9]

As enrollment increased, so did the ethnic diversity of the students. By 1995, fully 30 percent of UCR students were members of minority groups, the highest proportion of any campus in the UC system. The 1997 implementation of Proposition 209 — which banned the use of race and ethnicity as criteria for admissions, hiring, promotions and contracting by state agencies (including the University of California) — had the effect of increasing ethnic diversity at UCR while reducing it at Berkeley and UCLA. The latter two campuses — the most selective in the UC system — redirect many of their minority applicants to UCR, which had fewer applicants competing for admission.^[10]

[edit] Campus

[edit] Main campus

UCR lies next to California State Route 60, which passes over University Avenue. Painted on the eastern support wall of the overpass is the Gluck Gateway Mural, a 190-foot memorial of UCR history from the early days of the Citrus Experiment Station through 2000, the year the mural was painted.^[11]

A nearby shopping center called University Village provides several stores and restaurants. The center's movie theaters serve as lecture halls during the day, with a shuttle taking students back and forth to campus every 15 minutes.

In the center of the main campus stands the UCR Carillon, also known as the Bell Tower, one of only four in California. Designed by A. Quincy Jones, the tower is 161 feet tall and contains 48 bells, cast in France. The bells cover four chromatic octaves and weigh from 28 to 5,091 pounds. They were first heard in 1966 and were part of the initial broadcast of the campus radio station, KUCR.^[12]

Directly northwest of the Carillon, the Commons student center includes study rooms and restaurants. Construction is under way to more than double the size of the center from 65,000 square feet to 142,000 square feet.^[13] The new $50 million Commons (slated for completion in 2008) will include meeting rooms, dining areas and places to study.^[14]

Southeast of the Carillon is the Tomás Rivera Library, the main library. Further southeast past the intersection of Citrus and Eucalyptus Avenues are the buildings that make up the instruction halls and research centers of the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, including what remains of the original 1907 buildings. For example, the structure now occupied by the A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management originally housed the historic UC Citrus Experiment Station.^[15]

The university's free wireless internet coverage has been praised by Intel.^[16]

[edit] Botanic Gardens

Forming the eastern border of the Riverside campus are the Botanic Gardens,(commonly referred to by students as the "the Botans.") which occupy 40 acres of rugged terrain in the Box Springs foothills. Prominent natural features include two arroyos and a variety of plants native to the site, including brittlebush (Encelia farinosa), California buckwheat (Eriogonum fasciculatum), California sagebrush (Artemisia californica) and deerweed (Lotus scoparius). More than four miles of hiking trails traverse the grounds.^[17]

In addition to supporting research and education at UCR, the gardens offer a place of respite for students, visitors, and members of the community; in 2006 UCR Chancellor France Córdova hosted a memorial service there dedicated to members of the UCR community who died that year.^[18] Though maintained separately from the Botanic Gardens, UCR’s campus grounds are also landscaped with plants that thrive in Riverside's climate.^[17]

[edit] UCR Palm Desert

In fall 2005, UCR opened a new graduate center in Palm Desert in the Coachella Valley. Initially funded by a $6 million gift from a local entrepreneur, the Richard J. Heckmann International Center for Entrepreneurial Management was founded in 2001 and was UCR's first institutional presence in the area. The campus focuses on providing master's level instruction in management and in the fine arts.^[19]

[edit] Organization

UCR is one of the campuses of the University of California, which is governed by a Board of Regents and administered by a president, who at present is Robert C. Dynes. The administrative head of UCR is Chancellor France A. Córdova.

[edit] Administrative heads of UC Riverside

• Gordon S. Watkins (provost)
• Herman Spieth (provost and chancellor)
• Ivan Hinderaker (chancellor)
• Tomás Rivera (chancellor) First minority UC chancellor
• Daniel G. Aldrich (acting chancellor)
• Theodore L. Hullar (chancellor)
• Rosemary S.J. Schraer (chancellor) First female UC Chancellor
• Raymond L. Orbach (chancellor)
• France A. Córdova (chancellor 2002-present)

The source for the information below is http://www.ucr.edu/academic.html.

[edit] Academic colleges, divisions, and schools

• A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management
• Bourns College of Engineering
• College of Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences
• College of Natural & Agricultural Sciences
• Division of Biomedical Sciences
• Graduate Division
• Graduate School of Education
• University Extension

[edit] Academics

[edit] Faculty demographics and distinctions

The sex and ethnic breakdown of the full-time faculty in 2004 was:

• Male — 74.7 percent
• Female — 25.3 percent

• White — 73 percent
• Asian or Pacific Islander — 17.7 percent
• Hispanic — 4.6 percent
• Black — 2.4 percent^[20]

Between 1995 and 2002, among all institutions in the country, UC Riverside has had either the largest or second-largest number of faculty members named as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. A total of 69 UCR faculty members had been elected as fellows through 2002 [4]

[edit] Admissions

For the incoming freshman class of Fall 2006, the average High School GPA was 3.59, the average SAT Reasoning score was 1674, and the average ACT Composite score was 23. Additionally, 43.4% were first generation college students, 38.7% had a low family income, and 24% came from a high school with a low API score. Also, 5.6% of admits came from rural areas, 40.2% came from urban areas, and 54.2% came from suburban areas.^[21]

[edit] Rankings

In the 2007 issue of US News and World Report's "America's Best College", UC Riverside was ranked 88th among national universities and 39th among public institutions,^[22][23] Its undergraduate business program was ranked 77th (of 141), and its undergraduate engineering program was 87th (out of 102).^[24]

In 2006, the Washington Monthly, which assesses the quality of schools based on social mobility (e.g., percentage of Pell Grant recipients who graduate), academic quality (e.g., percentage of graduates who go on to earn Ph.D.s), and community service ranked UCR 22nd among National Universities.^[25]

In the Princeton Review's "Best 361 Colleges, 2006'" guide (ISBN) UCR was listed as one of the "Best Western Colleges"^[26] and one of "America's Best Value Colleges".^[27] Additionally, the Princeton Review also ranked UCR as one of the worst 20 colleges in the nation for "Professors Get Low Marks [for Teaching]",^[28] "Teaching Assistants Teach Too Many Upper-Level Courses"^[29] and "Professors Make Themselves Scarce."^[30]

[edit] Research areas

[edit] Air Pollution Research Center

Riverside and San Bernardino counties experience relatively high levels of air pollution.^[31] The American Lung Association ranked Riverside County first in its "Top 26 U.S. Counties Most Polluted by Annual Particle Pollution," with nearby San Bernardino County ranking second.^[32]

In 1961, the Air Pollution Research Center was established at UCR to research this phenomenon, which had been recognized a decade earlier in the Los Angeles basin as a cause of crop injury.[5] Faculty from the environmental sciences, plant sciences and chemistry departments, as well as the Center for Environmental Research and Technology of the College of Engineering [6] are assigned to the center.

Six research associates from the departments of chemistry, botany and plant sciences, environmental toxicology and environmental engineering and one from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Fire Laboratory are affiliated with APRC.

[edit] Native American Studies

UCR has long been the recipient of significant support from members of the California Indian community. UCR owes its founding in part to the work of Rupert and Jeannette Costo, a Cahuilla hydrologist and a Cherokee reporter, who took part in the initial campaign to locate a branch of the University of California at Riverside. In 1986, the Costos established the Costo Chair of American Indian Affairs at UCR, the first endowed chair of American Indian Studies in the United States and the first academic chair ever endowed at Riverside. They also bequeathed UCR their vast collections, establishing the Costo Library of the American Indian and Costo Archive.

Today, UCR also hosts the Center for California Native Nations, an interdisiplinary research institute dedicated to supporting research for and about the Native Nations of California[7]. UCR's History Department grants a master of arts degree as well as a doctorate in American Indian history. UCR also hosts an interdisciplinary program granting a bachelor of arts in Native American studies through the Ethnic Studies department. Program offerings include Northwest, Southwest, and California Indian History; History of Disease among Native Americans; Native American Oral and Contemporary Literatures; Ojibway History, Resistance Movements, and Survival Strategies.

In addition, there are Native American student programs and outreach services as well as high school recruitment at the nearby Sherman Indian School[8]. These programs both recruit and aid Native American students. [9] Over 30 federally recognized Indian nations reside in Riverside County[[10]].

[edit] UC Mexus

UCR hosts the University of California Institute for California and the United States, an interdisiplinary research institute dedicated to developing and coordinating a university-wide approach to Mexico-related studies[11]. UCR's Department of Hispanic Studies grants degrees in Spanish, while a BA degree in Chicano/a Studies is offered through the Ethnic Studies Department.

[edit] Riverside Regional Technology Park

UCR is a primary partner in the Riverside Regional Technology Park, which includes the City of Riverside and the County of Riverside. The park is intended to assist entrepreneurs in developing new products.^[33]

[edit] Educational Initiatives

[edit] Thomas Haider Program in Biomedical Sciences

This program offers a joint medical degree program with UCLA. The first two years of medical instruction are given on the UCR campus. Third- and fourth-year clerkships are served at UCLA and its affiliated medical centers. Students completing the program receive a bachelor of science degree in biomedical sciences from UCR and an M.D. degree from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

Before 2002 the joint program was an accelerated seven-year track offered exclusively to biomedical science majors. In that year, however, the program was lengthened to eight years and opened to all qualified majors at UC Riverside. Up to 24 of each year's applicants are chosen to attend medical school at UCR and UCLA.^[34]

[edit] Labor Studies and Marxist Studies

• Labor studies is an interdisciplinary minor focusing on the conditions, activities, and struggles of workers from an international, contemporary, comparative and historical perspective. Trade unions are the primary focus, but students also examine organizing by women and people of color. In addition to taking elective courses in fields including business administration, history and philosophy [12], students complete an internship with a union or labor-related community organization. [13]
• Marxist studies is also an interdisciplinary minor. It studies Marxism as a theoretical and methodological framework. Faculty members come from the departments of Anthropology, English, Economics, Ethnic Studies, History, Philosophy, Religious Studies and Sociology. [14] [15]

[edit] Proposed professional schools

Plans to establish both a law school and a medical school have been in progress since Chancellor Orbach’s administration in the 1990s, with the medical school proposal attracting substantial support from industry as well as the local community.^{[35][36][37][38]} The Regents approved UCR's med school proposal on November 16, 2006, and plans to enroll the first four-year medical students in fall 2012.^[39]

[edit] International initiatives

UCR operates International Education Centers in Seoul, South Korea and Beijing, China. As well as professional English language training, the centers also offer programs in teacher training, management and economics. Students can transfer credits to UCR and are encouraged to continue their studies in California.

[edit] Libraries and collections

UCR's library system is divided into general collections, music, media, and science. General collections are housed in the Tomás Rivera Library. The Science Library includes collections in the physical, natural and agricultural sciences, biomedical sciences, and engineering and computer sciences.

The university has special research collections and museums, including an herbarium,^[40] one of the world's most important citrus variety collections,^[41] and one of the largest entomological museums in the United States.^[42]

Other features:

• UCR is host to the world's largest academic collection of Star Trek material,^[43] and it houses the 80,000-volume Eaton Collection of science fiction, horror, fantasy, and utopian literature — the world's largest such compilation available to the general public.

• UCR administers the UCR/California Museum of Photography in downtown Riverside. With more than 500,000 photographic images and related materials, the museum constitutes the most comprehensive photographic collection in the West; it includes Ansel Adams' Fiat Lux 1965 archive containing photos of UC campuses. Much of the museum's collection is viewable online; its website receives 3.5 million visitors a year and is the most visited photography museum website in the world.^[44][45]

• The campus library is the home of the world's largest research collection of material on B. Traven, the author of the novel Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

[edit] Student Life

[edit] Student Demographics

Enrollment totaled 16,622 students in fall 2005, of which 14,571 were undergraduates and 2,051 were postgraduates. 90.5 percent of the students came from California, 0.7 were from elsewhere in the United States, 0.8 were international students and 8 percent were unspecified. About 30 percent of the students were enrolled from Riverside or San Bernardino counties. Of bachelor's degrees awarded, 60% are completed within four years, 33% within five years, and 7% within six years. Enrollment is projected to grow to about 22,000 students by the year 2015[16].The ethnic breakdown was:

• Asian/Asian-American — 39.6 percent.
• Chicano/Latino — 22.4 percent.
• Caucasian/White — 21.4 percent.
• No response or unknown — 8.2 percent.
• African American — 5.9 percent.
• Other ethnic — 2.1 percent..
• Native American — 0.4 percent.[17]

[edit] Athletics

• UCR is in the NCAA Division I of the Big West Conference. Programs include women's volleyball, soccer, cross country, basketball, indoor and outdoor track and field, baseball, softball, tennis and golf, all for both men and women. Football was played until 1975, then discontinued. The cost of a football program, coupled with the legal necessity of allocating an equivalent sum of money to women's sports, makes it unlikely that football will be restored, Athletic Director Stan Morrison has written.^[46]

• The volleyball and basketball teams play home games in the Student Recreation Center, which seats 3,168. The baseball team competes at the Riverside Sports Complex, just off campus at the corner of Blaine and Rustin streets. Softball is played at the Amy S. Harrison Field, adjacent to the UCR Soccer Stadium on the Lower Fields.

• In 1998, students voted to increase fees to move UCR athletics into NCAA Division I standing. Construction of a 12,000-seat arena for basketball and volleyball has been proposed, although UCR athletic attendance does not justify the need felt by other Big West schools, according to an editorial in the student newspaper.^[47]

• UC Riverside does not have a marching band, but it does assemble a rock band with horns, a guitar player, and a drummer. Because of NCAA restrictions against amplified instruments like those used in rock music, UCR sometimes hires a traditional marching band from other colleges such as UC Irvine and UC Santa Barbara for Big West Tournament games.^[48][49] UC Riverside also has a dedicated bagpipe band made up of students and staff, which plays at graduation and other campus events. For the women's basketball team's appearance at the NCAA Tournament against North Carolina in March 2006, UCR sent 22 members of the pipe band to support the team and play at halftime.^[50]

[edit] Student organizations

• The campus hosts KUCR, a student- and community-programmed radio station, which broadcasts at 88.3 FM from a tower in the Box Springs Mountains.^[51] The station plays a variety of independent music.

• The Associated Students of the University of California, Riverside (ASUCR) is the official representative of undergraduates on the Riverside campus. It is guided by a Senate composed of 20 elected officers representing three undergraduate colleges in proportion to their enrollment.^[52] There is an executive cabinet composed at present of Don Anque, vice president of campus internal affairs, writer; Justin Britton, Senate chair, Denny Chavez, vice president of external affairs director; Holly Lim, president, and Lluvia Rodriguez, vice president of finance [18].

• The Associated Students Program Board (ASPB) is a fourteen-member student organization responsible for planning on campus entertainment to students. ASPB is comprised of six various student run divisions which include; concerts (Samir Roberts and Phillip Le), films and lectures (Mark Lopez and Andrew Chun), cultural events (Maria Carrillo and Gabrielle Goodman), special events(Jimmy Ancheta and Armand Lebrilla) as well as a marketing (Angela Boisvert, David Levy and Kevin Fu) and leadership (Lee Pagnan and Cristina Aviles) division. With an annual budget of approximately $500,000, the board has brought out past artist(s) such as; Xzibit,Thrice, Jimmy Eat World, Dashboard Confessional, Lifehouse, E-40, Busta Rhymes, 112, The Ataris, Saosin, comedian Josh Blue, Edwin San Juan, Jo Koy, Bobby Lee, Margaret Cho, Nick Swardson, Ron Jeremy, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Jane Elliot, Dr. Drew, James Dale and many more. ASPB's major events include the Block Party Concert, Student Film Festival, International Film Festival, World Fest, Welcome Week, Homecoming and Spring Splash. [19].

[edit] Housing

UCR's residence halls consist of three structures: Aberdeen-Inverness, Lothian, and Pentland Hills, which house more than 3,000 students (including 75% of the freshman class) in triple, double and single rooms. UCR also features a large array of on-campus apartment complexes such as Stonehaven, Bannockburn and Village Plaza, and International Village. UCR also offers family student housing at the Canyon Crest Family Student Housing community. In fall 2007, a housing complex will be built for juniors and seniors. This project, called Arroyo Student Housing, will feature upscale apartments adjacent to Pentland Hills.^[53]

Reflecting UCR's diversity, a number of ethnic-, gender- and academic-oriented residence halls or theme floors have been established. These include a hall for students in the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences; a hall for students in the University Honors program; combined halls for majors in the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences and the Bourns College of Engineering; and a hall for transfer students. Student-initiated theme halls include Unete a Mundo, for students seeking to support Latino or Chicano students in acclimating to life at UCR; a Pan African Theme Hall for students interested in developing consciousness of African culture in relation to other cultures of the world; and Stonewall Hall, dedicated to students of all gender identities and sexual orientations who wish to live in a gender-neutral community.^[54]

According to a 2005 College Board profile, 28 percent of all undergraduates lived on the campus. Housing is available to all students for their first year, and 76 percent of all first-year students lived on campus.^[55] Thirty percent of students remained on campus for the weekend.^[55]

[edit] Campus security

Campus security is handled by the University of California Police Department, which sends bulletins and other crime-prevention information via e-mail. The department has a website that contains information about the department, safety, crime prevention, crime statistics, a press log and crime bulletins [20]. Officers are involved in outreach to community groups and student programs, and about one third are UCR graduates. The student newspaper has a weekly column titled The Rap Sheet, which highlights police activity for the previous week. [21]

[edit] Noted alumni

[edit] Academia, science, and technology

• Neil Campbell — American scientist known best for his best-selling Biology textbook
• Marigold Linton — Director of American Indian outreach at the University of Kansas http://www.haskell.edu/academic/art_sci/rise/Linton.htm
• Dr. Richard R. Schrock —Winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2005 and professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Tim White — Professor, integrative biology and research, paleoanthropologist
• Charles E. Young — First UCR student body president and former chancellor at the University of California, Los Angeles

[edit] Arts, film, and literature

• Mark Andrus — Writer for Oscar-nominated As Good As It Gets
• Stephen Breen — 1998 Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist
• Billy Collins — The eleventh U.S. Poet Laureate
• Lindsay Ridgeway - Actress, Boy Meets World

[edit] Athletics

• Butch Johnson — Former professional football player for the Dallas Cowboys and the Denver Broncos
• Gary McCord — Professional golfer, CBS announcer and analyst
• Troy Percival — Professional baseball pitcher for the Detroit Tigers
• Eric Show — Former professional baseball player for the San Diego Padres and Oakland Athletics. Now currently dead.

[edit] Business and politics

• Ruben Barrales — Deputy assistant to President Bush and director of the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs in the White House
• John W. Henry — Money manager and principal owner of the Boston Red Sox
• Ronald Neumann — Former U.S. Ambassador to Algeria
• Rod Pacheco — California Assembly Member, 64th District
• Byron H. Pollitt, Jr. — Executive vice president and chief financial officer of Gap Inc..
• Gloria Romero — California Assembly member, 49th District.
• Judith Valles — Former Mayor of San Bernardino, California.

[edit] Noted faculty

• John Baez — Professor of mathematics, mathematical physicist
• Bir Bhanu — Director of the Center for Research and Intelligent Systems, expert in intelligent systems, computer vision, pattern recognition and learning
• Richard Cardullo — Professor of biology, expert on mammalian fertilization, biophysicist
• Carl Cranor — Professor of legal philosophy, philosophic issues in science and the law, moral philosophy, regulatory policy, political philosophy, and pioneer of toxic tort litigation, serving as reference to federal Judges, elected to U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment, the Collegium Ramazzini (international headquarters in Carpi, Italy), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Emory Elliott — American Literature scholar and professor of English
• John Martin Fischer — Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and expert in free will and moral responsibility.
• Donna Hoffman — Chancellor's Chair and professor of marketing, co-director, Sloan Center for Internet Retailing and eLab 2.0, A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management.
• Paul Hoffman — Professor of early modern philosophy, moral psychology, philosophy of mind, scholar on the Metaphysics of Descartes
• Mark Midland - Professor of chemistry, inventor of the Midland Reagent.
• Antony Norman — Biochemistry professor, vitamin D expert.
• Umar Mohideen — Professor of physics, measured the Casimir Effect
• Walid A. Najjar — Researcher in the field of compilers and reconfigurable computing and professor of computer science
• Tom Novak — Albert O. Steffey professor of marketing and co-director, Sloan Center for Internet Retailing and eLab 2.0, A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management.
• David Pion-Berlin — Professor of political science, specialty in Latin American studies
• Michael Pirrung - Professor of chemistry and pioneer in the development of microarrays
• Victor Rodgers — Professor of bioengineering
• Robert Rosenthal - Professor of psychology, former chair of Harvard's psychology department.
• Jorge Silva-Risso — Professor of marketing and director at marketing research firm J.D. Power and Associates.
• George Edgar Slusser — Professor of comparative literature, science fiction expert
• Susan Straight — Writer and professor of creative writing
• Ivan Strenski — Holstein family and community professor of religious studies
• Bob Toledo — Former UCR football coach; 13th head coach of UCLA
• Clifford Trafzer — Writer and lecturer of Native American studies and history departments.
• John V. Tunney — Professor of business law, former United States Senator and member of Congress
• Austin Turk — Criminologist and professor of sociology.
• Frank Vahid — Computer scientist and professor of computer science
• Don Siegel- Professor of Entrepreneurship and Associate Dean of Gary Anderson School of Management. and Appointed to Department of Commerce Committee
• Xuemei Chen- Professor of plant cell and molecular biology. Recent Recepient of the 2006 Charles Albert Shull Award

[edit] External links

• Main UCR site
• UCR Athletics
• Campus map
• Web tour
• Digital History Archive of UCR
• UCR Facts and Impacts
• StudentsReview.com UC Riverside reviews
• Sloan Center for Internet Retailing
• eLab 2.0

[edit] References

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