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The University of California, Riverside is a public, coeducational university located in Riverside, California. It is one of ten University of California (UC) campuses and is commonly known as "UCR" or "UC Riverside."

Academics

UC Riverside is a research-based university that offers 78 majors, 45 minors, 50 Master's degree programs, and 38 Ph.D programs. These programs are partitioned among seven primary academic divisions. Of these, the Division of Biomedical Sciences, which has the sole function of supporting the Thomas Haider Program, and the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, which supports one of only three Departments of Nematology in the whole country, are units unique to UCR.

Colleges and schools

UCR's academic departments and programs are organized into five colleges and schools:

• UC Riverside College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
• UC Riverside College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
• UC Riverside Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering
• UC Riverside A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management
• UC Riverside Graduate School of Education

UCR's University Extension program provides continuing education to community members of the Inland Empire.

Rankings and Distinctions

UC Riverside ranks #85 among national universities and #37 among public institutions, according to US News and World Report (2006). None of its graduate schools (including those in Engineering, Business, Biological Sciences, Computer Science, Mathematics, English, and Political Science) are rated high enough to even be ranked by US News and World Report's 2007 Best Graduate Schools. .

Compared to other campuses in the University of California system, UCR's ranks last overall and has the lowest overall score. Its selectivity rank, a reflection of the student body's abilities and ambitions, is the lowest of any UC school. . UCR's peer assessment score, which considers a school's academic excellence as rated by top academics, is also the lowest in the University of California.

According to The Princeton Review's Best 361 Colleges, 2006 guide (ISBN 0375764836) UCR is listed as one of the "Best Western Colleges" and one of "America's Best Value Colleges". However, Princeton Review also ranks UCR as one of the worst 20 colleges in the nation for "Teaching Assistants Teach Too Many Upper-Level Courses", "Professors Get Low Marks ", and "Professors Make Themselves Scarce".

For the past decade, UC Riverside has had the most American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) fellows in the nation. Unlike most other UC schools, however, UCR does not have any Nobel laureates on its faculty

Admissions

UC Riverside offers admission to all graduating high school seniors in California, so long as they meet minimum UC eligibility criteria and submit an application. Unlike every other undergraduate UC campus (except Merced), UCR does not participate in Comprehensive Review to select applicants, which considers qualities and accomplishments that demonstrate leadership, intellectual curiosity, and initiative. Instead, virtually any California student with a weighted GPA greater than 3.45 and an SAT score above 1858 (similar to 1240 on the old scale), who has taken minimum prerequisite courses, will be offered admission to UCR .

Historically and presently, UCR has the highest acceptance rate of any campus in the UC system (79% for 2004-05), excluding the newly-opened UC Merced. Its average admission GPA and SAT scores (3.48 and 1074, respectively) have traditionally been the lowest in the UC system. In addition, the percentage of admits who actually matriculate at UC Riverside is the second lowest of the UC system, after Merced, 17.3%. Naturally, a large proportion of incoming freshmen arrive with inadequate preparation for college-level math and English -- 70% of entering students are not ready for calculus (requiring remedial coursework in pre-calculus), and 50%-60% are not able to read and write at the college-level (requiring remediation in English).

According to freshman admission data for 2003-05 published by the UC Office of the President (Merced excluded), approximately 20% of UCR's freshman classes come from low socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds, the highest percentage as compared to other UCs. Low SES was defined as having a family income below $30,000 per year and as belonging to the first generation to attend college. This same study also reported that 28% of UCR students graduated from low-performing high schools, based on Academic Performance Index data -- the highest percentage of any UC.

Retention and Recruitment

1 out of every 8 freshmen leave UC Riverside by the their freshmen year, based on a published freshmen retention rate of 85%, the worst of any campus in the UC system. In order to attract more competitive applicants, UCR has invited home-schooled and other nontraditional students to submit a portfolio of their work in addition to test scores.

Recent cuts to UCR's budget made by Gov. Schwarzenegger may have forced the campus over its capacity to effectively address the educational needs of a significant proportion of the students it admits. The current administration has attempted to mitigate this problem by lowering standards for graduation, specifically by easing a composition requirement that classes up to 2004 needed to graduate. George Haggerty, the English Department Chair, stepped down from the position of Chair as a protest gesture over the administration's handling of this program.

Alumni Giving

95% of UCR alumni do not donate back to their alma mater, based on an alumni giving rate of 5%, the lowest alumni giving rate of any national university. In comparison, the rate at UCLA and UC Davis are 3-times and 2-times as high, respectively. This low giving ratio may be a function of low student happiness. According to The Princeton Review's 2004 publication of "Best 351 College Rankings", UC Riverside ranked #12 nationwide for "Least Happy Students.".

The Thomas Haider Program in Biomedical Sciences

The Thomas Haider Program in Biomedical Sciences offers a joint medical degree program with UCLA.

The first two years of medical instruction are taught on the UCR campus. The biomedical teaching complex at UCR consists of two portable trailer-classrooms located adjacent to the campus greenhouses. Additional medical school courses are taught in the basement of the Statistics building. Third and fourth year clerkships are conducted at UCLA and its affiliated hospitals along with the rest of the UCLA medical school class. Students admitted in the program receive a B.S. in Biomedical Sciences from UCR and an MD degree from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. In the past, the UCR/UCLA program was an accelerated 7-year track offered exclusively to biomedical science majors. However, in 2002, the program was lengthened to 8 years and opened to all qualified majors at UC Riverside. Up to twenty-four of each year's applicants are chosen to attend medical school at UCR and UCLA. Students not selected are still eligible to apply to other medical schools, but have not always been successful.

Campus and Environment

Central Campus

UCR is bordered by California State Route 60, which overpasses University Avenue. Painted on the eastern support wall of the overpass is the Gluck Gateway Mural, a 190 ft memorial of UCR history from the early days of the citrus experiment station to the year it was painted in 2000. University avenue extends to downtown Riverside, about 10 minutes away by car. On the other side of Route 60, the University Village (UV) provides several shops and restaurants. UV's movie theaters also serve as lecture halls during the day, with a shuttle taking students every 15 minutes.

In the center of campus stands the UCR Carillon, also known as the Bell Tower, one of only four in California. The tower itself is 166 ft tall and contains 48 bells, specially cast in France, which cover four chromatic octaves and range in weight from 28 to 5,091 pounds. Its chimes were first heard in 1966 and were part of the initial broadcast of KUCR.

Directly northwest of the Carillion, the Commons serves as a small student center for the campus and includes study rooms and restaurants with benches for dining. Construction is underway to more than double the size of the Center from 65,000 square feet to 142,000 square feet. The new 50 million dollar Student Commons (slated for completion in 2008) is expected to include large buildings containing expanded meeting rooms, dining, and places to study. The university has attempted to institute new instructional technologies such as online discussion groups, and its free wireless internet coverage has been praised by Intel.

Southeast of the Carillion is the Tomas Rivera Library, the main library on campus. 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 the relics of the original 1907 campus. The building currently occupied by the A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management originally housed the historic UC Citrus Experimentation Station.

Forming the eastern border of UCR are the Botanic Gardens. The UCR Botanic Gardens 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.

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 Cordova hosted a memorial service in the Botanic Gardens dedicated to members of the UCR community who passed away earlier that year, an event which is intended to become an annual tradition.

Though maintained separately, UCR’s campus grounds are also considered part of the Botanic Gardens, and are landscaped with plants that do well in Riverside's climate.

UCR Palm Desert

UCR Palm Desert campus opened a new campus in the Palm Desert of 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 currently focuses on providing Masters' level instruction in Management and the Fine Arts.

The Big “C”

A 132 by 70 ft concrete “C “, located approximately 1500 ft high on the eastern slope of the Box Springs Mountain, is visible from most of campus and from the 91 freeway. It was poured in 1957 and was the world's largest poured-cement block letter at the time. It was constructed primarily by students with materials and labor donated by Berkeley alumnus E. L. Yeager. Freshman classes have the responsibility of painting the letter (gold) and keeping it clean throughout the year.

Severe Air Pollution

Riverside is part of what some locals refer to as the “smog belt” because of its exceedingly high levels of air pollution. In fact, the associated brown haze can be seen in the Carillon Tower photo to the upper-right, where it obscures the bottom third of the sky. The American Lung Association ranked Riverside County 1st in its "Top 26 U.S. Counties Most Polluted by Annual Particle Pollution," with nearby San Bernardio falling into 2nd. According to the National Campaign Against Dirty Air Power (2003), the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario area was one of the most polluted areas in comparison to other U.S. cities. A study in the New England Journal of Medicine (2004) found that levels of pollution in Riverside were among the highest in southern California, and that the air in this region can damage the lungs of children. The Air Pollution Research Center (APRC) at UCR serves to further study the effects of air pollution on the environment.

The 909

The Inland Empire area is sometimes referred to as "The 909," which makes reference to the region's former primary area code but also carries a negative association with trailer parks, white supremacists, and cows. The region has also been the subject of frequent mockery by a variety of websites, television shows, radio stations, and bumper stickers. Despite the 2004 prefix change to "951," the nickname remains in use. The region is also known to have a pervasive problem with methamphetamine labs, which are typically housed in the garages and trailer parks of Riverside and San Bernardino. Drug activity has ultimately led to a rise in the rate of identity theft, for which the region now ranks #2 in the nation.

Student life

Enrollment

Since its opening, UC Riverside has expanded significantly, with a peak undergraduate enrollment of 15,399 students in 2003. However, for each subsequent year, total enrollment of students has declined to its current number of 14,649. Despite this recent trend, UCR was previously projected to grow to 17,250 students by Fall 2006, and 25,000 by 2015. Financially, UCR has received sufficient funding to become a comprehensive university, but has lagged behind other UC schools with respect to growth in this area. Despite being the fourth University of California campus to open, today it ranks the lowest in "financial resources," according to US News & World Report. Most additions to the campus since its founding have been built within the past 10 years in anticipation of Tidal Wave 2.

Diversity

UC Riverside's ethnic distribution, as of 2005, is as follows: Asian/Asian American 40%, Chicano and Latino 22%, White 21%, African American 6%, Other ethnicity 2%, and Native American 0.4%. Of note, UCR was ranked #4 nationwide for campus diversity by US News and World Report (2006), and is the most racially diverse campus in U.C.

Nevertheless, UCR's surrounding community has had frequent problems with racial violence. 148 Hate crimes were reported in the Inland Empire (1 every 2-3 days), with 5 occuring on the UCR campus alone in 2004. This may reflect underreporting, however, as a special report revealed that in 2000, UCR failed in its duty to compile detailed crime statistics as mandated by the federal Clery Act. The most recent and notorious hate crime was the murder of man outside a gay bar in downtown Riverside.

Housing

UCR's Residence Halls consist of three structures, Aberdeen-Inverness, Lothian, and Pentland Hills, that house over 3,000 students, including 75% of the freshman class, in triple and double rooms on campus. Reflecting UCR's wide diversity, there are a number of traditional academic as well as student-initiated ethnic and gender-oriented theme floors located among the residence halls. These include halls for students in the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (CHASS), a hall for students in the University Honors program, and combined halls for for majors in the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (CNAS) and the Bournes College of Engineering (BCOE), and also a hall for transfer students. Student-initiated theme halls include Unete A Mundo, established for students seeking to support Latino/Chicano peers in aclimating to life at UCR, the Pan African Theme Hall for students interested in developing consciousness of Pan 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 live in a gender-neutral community.

According to the 2005 College Board profile, 28% of all undergraduates live on campus. Housing is available to all students for their first year and 76% of all first-year students live on campus. Nevertheless, only 30% of students remain at UCR for the weekend, which contributes to the "commuter school" reputation .

ASPB and ASUCR

The Associated Students Program Board (ASPR) is a thirteen member student organization responsible for producing entertainment events for the entire student body. Overseeing an annual budget of approximately $500,000, ASPB books popular artists for annual music festivals such as the Block Party and Spring Splash events, and also supports the annual Homecoming and World Fest celebrations. The Associated Students of the University of California (ASUCR), Riverside has been the official representative body of UCR undergraduates. The senate is composed of 20 elected officers representing three undergraduate colleges in proportion to enrollment. .

Student Media

KUCR

UCR also broadcasts as KUCR, a largely student and community programmed radio station, at 88.3 FM from its tower located in the Box Springs Mountains.

Libraries and Collections

UCR's library system is divided into general collections, music, media, and science specialties. General collections reside in the Tomás Rivera library, while the Science library building caters to the physical sciences, natural and agricultural sciences, biomedical sciences and engineering and computer sciences. It has no dedicated medical library for its 48 medical students, however. Of note, UCR is host to the world's largest academic collection of Star Trek material, and 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. In addition to the libraries, UCR houses various special research collections and museums, including an Herbarium, one of the world's most important Citrus variety collections, and one of the largest Entomological museums in the United States.

Of special note, UCR also administers the UCR/California Museum of Photography in downtown Riverside. With over 500,000 photographic objects, images, and related materials, CMP houses the most comprehensive photographic collections in the West, including Amsel Adams' Fiat Lux 1965 archive containing photos of UC campuses. Much of the museum's collections are viewable online; its website recieves 3.5 million visitors a year and is the most visited photography museum website in the world .

Athletics

UCR competes in NCAA Division I of the Big West Conference, but lacks a football team and a hockey team. The campus has 17 other teams - men's and women's soccer, men's and women's cross country, women's volleyball, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's indoor and outdoor track and field, baseball, softball, men's and women's tennis and men's and women's golf. Football was played until 1975, when it was dropped due to budgetary reasons. In the 2005-06 school year, the Highlanders' women's soccer team and women's basketball team each reached the NCAA Tournament, but failed to achieve victory. Previous programs to compete in the NCAA post-season are baseball (2003), men's golf (2004, 2005), as well as individuals from track and field.

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

Construction of a large arena as a venue for basketball and volleyball has been proposed, although UCR athletic attendance ranks near the bottom of all Big West schools.

UC Riverside does not have a marching band, but instead features a rock band with horns, a guitar, and a drummer. Due to NCAA's restriction against amplified instruments, UCR sometimes must "rent" a marching band from other colleges such as UCI and UCSB for Big West Tournament games.. For the women's basketball team's appearance at the NCAA Tournament against North Carolina, UCR brought its kilted bagpipe and drum ensemble, which drew raves from the fans in attendance at Vanderbilt University.

The official UCR mascot is "Scotty," a Highlander tartan-wearing bear.

Riverside Regional Technology Park

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

History

University of California Citrus Experiment Station

On February 14, 1907, the University of California Board of Regents established an experiment/research station on 23 acres of land on the east slope of Mt. Rubidoux in Riverside, California. Dubbed the Rubidoux Laboratory, the purpose of this research station was to conduct various agricultural experiments such as fertilization, irrigation, improvement of crops, and air pollution research. It was here that the navel orange was introduced to the United States. The laboratory was later moved in 1917 to the west slope of Box Springs Mountains. It was not associated with any particular campus but rather with the system as a whole, and as such was officially titled the University of California Citrus Experiment Station.

When the Citrus Experiment Station (CES) celebrated its fiftieth anniversary, it had grown considerably in size and stature with several new buildings and a wider range of horticultural research conducted with more acres for experimental plantings. The laboratory's original two staff personnel increased to 265 personnel by 1957. The lab itself had become famous throughout the citrus industry for its applied research on pest and disease control as well as on soil and irrigation problems. In 1961, to reflect the growth of the laboratory, the name was changed to the Citrus Research Center and Agricultural Experiment Station. At the time, the director was Alfred M. Boyce for which Boyce Hall, the home to the Entomology and Biochemistry Departments, is named.

College of Letters and Science established

In the late 1940s, a local group of civic and business leaders, as well as citrus growers, formed the Citizens University Committee (CUC) to lobby the State Legislature for a small liberal arts college attached to the UC Citrus Experiment Station. At that time the UC and Cal State systems were anticipating a massive influx of students as the baby boom generation came of age, and a state education committee was scouting out locations for a new campus. After diligent lobbying on the part of the CUC, the state committee recommended to the Legislature that Riverside become the location for the new UC campus. In 1949, California Governor Earl Warren signed the legislation approving the establishment of a small College of Letters and Science in Riverside.

That same year, University President Robert Gordon Sproul persuaded Gordon S. Watkins, then dean of the College of Letters and Science at University of California, Los Angeles, to undertake the organization of the College of Letters and Science at Riverside. Watkins accepted the job and started five years of planning, faculty recruitment, and building construction. He became provost of the Riverside campus and presided at its opening with 131 students in February 1954. Watkins served as provost until his retirement in 1956.

UCR becomes a full research university

After Watkins retired, Herman Theodore Spieth, professor of zoology and chairman of life sciences, accepted the title of provost and guided UCR's development towards full university status. Spieth became UCR's first chancellor when the Regents designated Riverside as a general campus in 1958, in anticipation of the Legislature's passing of the California Master Plan for Higher Education. Under this act, Spieth's responsibility was to combine the College of Letters and Science and the Citrus Research Center into a single academic and administrative entity, as well as oversee the planning and development of UCR's graduate division. UCR started accepting graduate students in 1961; UCR's College of Agriculture, Air Pollution Research Center and the Dry-Lands Research Institute were also established during Spieth's administration.

Enrollment at UCR during the 60s eventually grew to average out at 5000.

Hinderaker's administration

In the 1970s, the air quality in Riverside became a widely reported national issue and had disastrous effects on enrollment at UCR. According to Ivan Hinderaker, UCR chancellor during this period: “…Irvine didn’t have smog. It’s hard to realize what a tremendous problem that was. Your budget is related to enrollment, so what effect did smog have?... UCR in 1971-2 was 5,576 … By ’78-’79, we had twenty five percent fewer students than we did in ’71-’72. In terms of faculty positions, we had taken away from us in ’72-’73 twelve, ’73-’74 ten, ’74-’75 twenty positions.” Hinderaker attributed this drop primarily to widely reported news stories on the air quality in Riverside. Rumors circulated that the campus would close; Hinderaker developed UCR’s competitive Biomedical Program and popular Business Administration Program primarily as a means of assuaging the enrollment problems created by Riverside's air quality.

Proposition 209

UC Riverside enrolls the most diverse student body in the UC system. While this was true even before the 1997 implementation of Proposition 209, which banned the consideration of race and ethnicity in state-wide decision making, an outcome of this legislation has been the further increase of diversity at UCR, which accepts all UC eligible applicants, and a reduction in admissions of under represented minorities at Berkeley and UCLA, the most selective campuses in the UC system.

In 1998, when admit rates for underrepresented students declined sharply at the selective campuses, underrepresented students increased as a proportion of the freshman classes at both UC Riverside and UC Santa Cruz. This trend has continued strongly at UC Riverside, which now enrolls a higher proportion of underrepresented students than it did in 1995 (31.7 as compared to 30.0 percent) and the highest proportion of all the campuses.

Proposed professional schools

• UC Riverside would like to establish a traditional medical school and is currently planning a proposal to UC.
• UC Riverside has proposed a Law School that the Regents of California have put on hold due to the budget crisis.

Organization

Chancellors and chief campus officers

• Gordon S. Watkins (Provost 1949-1956)
• Herman Spieth (Provost 1956-1958/ Chancellor 1958-1964)
• Ivan Hinderaker (Chancellor 1964-1979)
• Tomás Rivera (Chancellor 1979-1984) First Minority UC Chancellor
• Daniel G. Aldrich (Acting Chancellor 1984-1985)
• Theodore L. Hullar (Chancellor 1985-1987)
• Rosemary S.J. Schraer (Chancellor 1987-1992) First Female UC Chancellor
• Raymond L. Orbach (Chancellor 1992-2002)
• France A. Córdova (Chancellor 2002-present)

Notable Faculty

• Ivan Strenski - Ph.D., Holstein Family and Community Professor of Religious Studies
• Antony Norman - Ph.D., Biochemistry a world renowned vitamin D expert.
• Jorge Silva-Risso - Ph.D., Professor of Marketing and Director at marketing research firm J.D. Power and Associates.
• David Pion-Berlin - Ph.D., Professor of Political Science, Specialty in Latin American Studies
• John V. Tunney - Professor of Business Law, former United States Senator and Representative
• Carl Cranor - Ph.D., 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
• Paul Hoffman - Ph.D., Professor of Early Modern Philosophy, Moral Psychology, Philosophy of Mind, and considered to be one of the most prominent leading scholars on the Metaphysics of Descartes in the philosophy community
• Richard Cardullo - Professor of Biology, Expert on mammalian fertilization, biophysicist
• Umar Mohideen - Professor of Physics, measured the Casimir Effect
• George Edgar Slusser - Professor of Comparative Literature, science fiction expert
• John Baez - Professor of Mathematics, mathematical physicist
• Victor Rodgers - Professor of Bioengineering
• Susan Straight - Writer and Professor of Creative Writing
• Clifford Trafzer - Writer and Lecturer of Native American Studies and History Departments.
• Austin Turk - Noted Criminologist and Professor of Sociology.
• Emory Elliott - Noted American Literature scholar and Professor of English
• Frank Vahid - Noted Computer Scientist and Professor of Computer Science
• Walid A Najjar - Noted Researcher in the field of Compilers and Reconfigurable Computing and Professor of Computer Science
• Bob Toledo - Former UCR football coach; 13th head coach of UCLA
• William P.L.Carter - Top 10 most cited researcher in the field of atmospheric chemistry
• Roger Atkinson - Top 10 most cited researcher in the field of atmospheric chemistry

Notable alumni

Academia, Science, Technology

• Joseph Semancik - Ph.D., Professor of Plant Pathology, viroids research pioneer, first scientist to discover citrus viroids.
• Charles E. Young - First UCR student body president and former chancellor at University of California, Los Angeles.
• Ed Gomez - Former Student Regent, currently Professor at San Bernardino Valley College.
• S. Sue Johnson - Regent, University of California and chair of the Board of Regents 2000-2002.
• Eric Mathur - Former Vice President of Scientific Affairs and Molecular Diversity at Diversa.
• Tim White - Professor, Integrative Biology and Research Paleo-Anthropologist. Internationally recognized expert in the field of paleo-anthropology.
• Neil Campbell - American scientist known best for his popular "Biology" textbook.
• Dr. Sandip Shah - Current researcher with Ford Motor company

Arts, Film and Literature

• Billy Collins - The eleventh U.S. Poet Laureate
• Linda - Cast, MTV's "The 70's House".
• Jamie Chung - Cast, MTV's The Real World: San Diego, The Inferno II
• Johanna Botta - Cast, MTV's The Real World: Austin
• Lindsay Ridgeway - Actress, "Boy Meets World" Sitcom
• Nona Colorado - Actress, Save the Last Dance, Blue Crush films.
• Mark Andrus - Writer for "As Good As It Gets" Oscar nominated film.
• Stephen Breen - 1998 Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist.
• Susan Elizabeth George - Internationally acclaimed mystery writer.

Athletics

• Troy Percival - Professional baseball pitcher for the Detroit Tigers.
• Pat Hill - Head football coach at Fresno State.
• Butch Johnson (football player)-Former professional football player for the Dallas Cowboys and the Denver Broncos
• Gary McCord - Professional golfer/CBS announcer and analyst.
• Eric Show - Former professional baseball player for the San Diego Padres and Oakland Athletics.

Business and Politics

• Byron H. Pollitt, Jr - Executive Vice President and CFO of Gap Inc..
• Paul Niwa - Senior Vice President, Broadband and Chief Editor for Stockhouse.com.
• Ruben Barrales - Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, The White House.
• Ronald Neumann - Former U.S. Ambassador to Algeria.
• Rod Pacheco - California Assembly Member, 64th district.
• Gloria Romero - California Assembly Member, 49th district.
• Judith Valles - Mayor, San Bernardino.
• Steve Nguyen - Actor, Film producer, CEO of Stickblade Incorporated.

Nobel Laureates

• Dr. Richard R. Schrock - Chemistry, 2005 and MIT professor

External links

• Main UCR site
• UCR Athletics
• Campus map
• Web tour
• Digital History Archive of UCR

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