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University of California Irvine - Brief History

The University of California, Irvine is a public research university in Irvine, California. It is one of the 10 campuses in the University of California (UC) system. UC Irvine offers 87 undergraduate degrees and 129 graduate and professional degrees. The university is classified as a Research I university and in 2017 had $361 million in research and development expenditures, according to the National Science Foundation.

UC Irvine became a member of the Association of American Universities in 1996 and is the youngest university to hold membership. It is considered to be one of the "Public Ivies," meaning that it is among those publicly funded universities thought to provide a quality of education comparable to that of the Ivy League. The UC Irvine Anteaters compete in the NCAA Division I as members of the Big West Conference and the Anteaters have won 28 national championships in nine different team sports.

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The university also administers the UC Irvine Medical Center, a large teaching hospital in Orange, and its affiliated health sciences system; the University of California, Irvine, Arboretum; and a portion of the University of California Natural Reserve System. UC Irvine set up the first Earth System Science Department in the United States.

UCI was one of three new UC campuses established in the 1960s to accommodate growing enrollments across the UC system. A site in Orange County was identified in 1959, and in the following year the Irvine Company sold the University of California 1,000 acres (400 ha) of land for one dollar to establish the new campus. President Lyndon B. Johnson dedicated the campus in 1964, a fact which was commemorated with the delivery of a commencement speech by President Barack Obama exactly fifty years later.

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Nobel Laureates UC Irvine Faculty

The Nobel Prize is an international award administered by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden.
Since 1901, the prize has been awarded every year for profound achievements that have greatly contributed to physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and peace.

Frederick Reines

Physics, 1995

Frederick Reines (March 16, 1918 – August 26, 1998) was an American physicist. While he was a professor at University of California Irvine, he was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics for his co-detection of the neutrino with Clyde Cowan in the neutrino experiment.

He may be the only scientist in history "so intimately associated with the discovery of an elementary particle and the subsequent thorough investigation of its fundamental properties." Reines died at UCI Medical Center in 1998.

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Irwin Allan Rose

Chemistry, 2004

Irwin Allan Rose (July 16, 1926 – June 2, 2015) was an American biologist. Along with Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko, he was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation.

He was a distinguished professor-in-residence in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine at the time his Nobel Prize was announced in 2004.

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Frank Sherwood Rowland

Chemistry, 1995

Frank Sherwood "Sherry" Rowland (June 28, 1927 – March 10, 2012) was an American Nobel laureate and a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine. His research was on atmospheric chemistry and chemical kinetics.

As a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine, his best-known work was the discovery that chlorofluorocarbons contribute to ozone depletion. Rowland's research, first published in Nature magazine in 1974, initiated a scientific investigation of the problem.

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Pulitzer Prize UC Irvine Faculty

The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of American (Hungarian-born) Joseph Pulitzer who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher, and is administered by Columbia University in New York City.

John R. "Jack" Miles

English, 1996

John R. "Jack" Miles (born July 30, 1942) is an American author. He is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the MacArthur Fellowship.

His writings on religion, politics, and culture have appeared in numerous national publications, including The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Commonweal Magazine.

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Barry Siegel

English, 2002

Barry Siegel (born September 7, 1949) is an American journalist. He is a former national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times who won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 2002 for his piece "A Father's Pain, a Judge's Duty, and a Justice Beyond Their Reach."

In 2003, University of California, Irvine recruited Siegel to chair the school's new undergraduate degree program in literary journalism, which is ranked No. 10 in the nation.

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Hector Tobar

English, 1992

Héctor Tobar (born 1963, Los Angeles) is a Los Angeles author and journalist, whose work examines the evolving and interdependent relationship between Latin America and the United States.

His long career in journalism includes work for The New Yorker, LA Weekly, and many positions at the Los Angeles Times. He is currently an associate professor at the University of California, Irvine.

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President Obama at UC Irvine Graduation Ceremony in June 2014


Notable Alumni of UC Irvine

Sarah Lancaster

Actress

Jon Lovitz

Actor

David Benioff

Screenwriter/Producer

Susan Alice Buffett

Philanthropist

Bob Gunton

Actor

Scott Brooks

NBA Basketball Coach

Grace Byers

Actress

Bryan Han

Class of 2015

Bryan and Mom

Data Analyst at KBB

Bryan, Mom, and Dad

Class of 2015

Crista Flanagan

Comedic Actress

Greg Louganis

Olympic Diver

Kelly Lin

Taiwanese Actress

Joseph S. Jacob

GS Warriors Owner

Mike Powell

Track and Field Athlete

Richard Ford

Novelist

Teal Wicks

Stage Actress

Michael Chbon

Novelist/Screenwriter

Nazanin Boniadi

Iranian British Actress