University of California, Riverside

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

Colleges and schools

UC Riverside is a research-based university that offers 78 majors, 45 minors, 50 Master's degree programs, and 38 Ph.D programs. Academic 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 EducationUCR's University Extension program provides continuing education to community members of the Inland Empire.

Students studying in the Science Library.

Admissions

UC Riverside offers admission to all graduating high school seniors in California, so long as they satisfy minimum UC eligibility criteria and submit an application. UC Riverside and UC Merced are the only UC campuses that do not use Comprehensive Review to select applicants, which considers qualities and accomplishments that demonstrate leadership, intellectual curiosity, and initiative. Virtually any California applicant with a weighted GPA greater than 3.45 and an SAT score above 1858 (similar to 1240 on the old scale), who meets the basic course prerequisites, will be offered admission to UCR .

UCR has the second-highest acceptance rate of any campus in the UC system (79% for 2004-05), after the newly opened UC Merced. The average GPA and SAT scores are 3.48 and 1074, respectively. The percentage of students who are admitted to UC Riverside and decide to attend is the second lowest in the UC system, after Merced, 17.3%. 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 in the UC system. 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 (the highest in the UC system) graduated from low-performing high schools, based on Academic Performance Index data.

Rankings and distinctions

UC Riverside ranks #85 among national universities and #37 among public institutions (registration required), according to US News and World Report (2006). Its undergraduate business program ranks #77 (out of 141), and its undergraduate engineering program ranks #87 (out of 102). None of its graduate schools (including those in Engineering, Business, Biological Sciences, Computer Science, Mathematics, English, and Political Science) is ranked in the US News and World Report's 2007 Best Graduate Schools.

In August 2006, the Washington Monthly College Guide ranked UC Riverside No. 22 among the nation's universities and colleges. The editors based their ratings on what colleges are doing for the country.

Compared to other campuses in the University of California system, UCR ranks last overall and has the lowest overall score. 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" (registration required) and one of "America's Best Value Colleges" (registration required). 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" (registration required), "Professors Get Low Marks [for Teaching]" (registration required), and "Professors Make Themselves Scarce" (registration required).

Although UCR is one of four UC campuses that don't have any Nobel Laureates on faculty, UC Riverside has had American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) fellows, along with other UC's, for the past decade.

Washington Monthly, which ranks schools based on their contributions to the country (in the areas of community service, research, and social mobility) recently placed UCR at #22 . It is the largest discrepancy from the U.S. News rankings, not including unranked colleges.

Retention, recruitment, and alumni

1 out of every 8 freshmen leave UC Riverside by the their freshmen year, based on a published freshmen retention rate of 85%, the highest percentage of any campus in the UC system. In order to attract more talented applicants, UCR began inviting home-schooled and other nontraditional students to submit a portfolio of their work in addition to test scores in 2005.

Construction on campus is common as the university expands.

Traditionally, the UC schools (and indeed state schools all over the nation) have had very low alumni giving rates. While UC Riverside has the lowest alumni giving rate at 5%, the top UC schools have not fared much better. UCLA's alumni giving rate stands at 16% while UC Berkeley stands at only 15%. According to The Princeton Review's 2004 publication of "Best 351 College Rankings", UC Riverside ranked #12 nationwide for "Least Happy Students". According to a StudentsReview.com survey, 48% of respondents said they would not attend UC Riverside again if given that chance.

Recent budget cuts to UCR made by Gov. Schwarzenegger may have forced the campus over its capacity to effectively address the educational needs of its students. The current administration has attempted to mitigate this problem by lowering standards for graduation, prompting the chair of the English Department to resign in protest.

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.

A proposal is in the works to establish a four-year allopathic medical school in UCR. The proposal is pending approval from state legislature.

Campus

Main campus

A student playing an arcade game in the former Commons.

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.

Carillon Tower, which stands in the center of campus.

In the center of 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 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 Carillon, 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 Carillon 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.

The University Village (UV) is located 10 minutes (walking) outside of campus, nearby a strip mall. The movie theater is used for classes in the morning.

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.

The Big "C"

A 132 by 70 ft concrete "C", located approximately 1500 ft high on the eastern slope of the Box Springs Mountain. 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.

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.

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 and hate crime

UC Riverside's ethnic distribution, as of 2005, is as follows:
*40% Asian/Asian American
*22% Chicano and Latino
*21% White
*6% African American
*2% Other ethnicity
*0.4% Native American .

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 occurring on the UCR campus alone in 2004. This may reflect underreporting, however, as a special report revealed that in 2000, UCR (along with UC Irvine) 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. In addition, the Highlander, UCR's campus newspaper, has been criticized for publishing racist and homophobic comic strips . One example from 2003 depicts an Asian grad student who exclaims, "Welcohm to mikoheekuhnummick," (a corruption of "welcome to microeconomics) while two UCR students mock him: "Where did all the English-speaking grad students go?"

Housing

Photo of the UV Towers, newly constructed student 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 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 acclimating 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 (ASPB) 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. .

Environment and community

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. This pollution is so notorious that it has been thought to influence administration policy (see Biomedical Sciences Program). The associated brown haze can be seen in the Carillon Tower photo to the upper-left, 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 Bernardino 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" Stigma

The Inland Empire area is sometimes referred to as "The 909," which makes reference to the region's former primary area code, but is also associated with trailer parks, methamphetamine use, white supremacists, and cows. The region has also been the subject of frequent mockery by a variety of websites, television shows, radio stations, as well as 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 in 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 media and industry

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

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.

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 receives 3.5 million visitors a year and is the most visited photography museum website in the world .

Athletics

School Mascot.

UCR competes in NCAA Division I of the Big West Conference. UC Riverside lacks a football team, but it does compete in 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. Due to financial and NCAA restrictions, it will likely never be restored .

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.

History

The 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. 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 moved in 1917 to the west slope of Box Springs Mountains.

From a Liberal Arts College to a Research University, the Early Years of UCR

In the late 1940s, a local group of citrus growers and civic and business leaders lobbied the State Legislature for 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 the legislation approving the establishment of a small College of Letters and Science in Riverside, earmarking 5 million, later reduced to 3 million, for its construction. University President Robert Gordon Sproul requested Gordon S. Watkins, former dean of the College of Letters and Science at UCLA, to organize the College of Letters and Science at Riverside. He became provost of the campus and presided at its opening with 65 faculty and 131 students in February 1954Martinez, Richard. "700 Join in UCR's Second Founder's Day Celebration." Riverside Press Enterprise, October 7, 1987..
Determining that the liberal arts college model was too small and costly to effectively serve the growing needs of California, in 1958 the Regents designated Riverside a general UC campus and tasked Herman Theodore Spieth, UCR's first Chancellor, with administering UCR's development towards full university status in accordance with the developing California Master Plan for Higher Education .

The Hinderacker Administration: UCR in the 1960s and 70s

UCR's second Chancellor, Irvin Hinderacker, was inaugurated on Sept 29. 1964, the same year the free speech movement kicked off in Berkeley. While there were confrontations between student activists and campus administration at UCR in the 1960s, they did not occur on the dramatic scale as did the political protests at larger campuses in Berkeley or Los Angeles. Hinderacker was noted to have cooperated with student activists throughout his administration.

It fell to Hinderacker to complete the task of turning UCR into a full fledged research university. In doing this, he had to confront the early L&S faculty Watkins had recruited on the premise that UCR would be a small liberal arts institution primarily dedicated to teaching undergraduates. A significant majority of this early faculty, who had achieved tenure without having to do research, resisted this obligation. All Hinderacker could effectively do was wait for this early faculty to retire in order to appoint new faculty with demonstrated research interests to begin to develop UCR's scholastic reputation in areas other than the natural sciences, which always had an active research agenda at UCR.
This objective was unexpectedly hindered when Riverside's Mayor Lewis requested Governor Regan declare the south coast air basin a disaster area in 1972. This caused Riverside to become famous for its air pollution and had disastrous effects on student enrollment and faculty recruitment at UCR. Rumors circulated that the campus would close; Hinderaker developed UCR's competitive Biomedical Program and popular Business Administration Program as means of assuaging the enrollment problems created by Riverside's air quality. He also established UCR's graduate schools of education and administration and streamlined UCR's departmental structure during this period.

The 1980s

As a result of the 1978 passing of Prop 13, which drastically reduced the state's ability to fund higher education, another set of budgetary problems developed for UCR as well as for all the public education institutions in California. After Hinderacker retired in 1979, a series of chancellors serving short appointments as UCR's chief executive followed through the 1980s. While enrollment began to make modest but sustained annual gains through the 1980s, more than doubling by 1991, no single chancellor at Riverside was ever in office long enough to strategically direct UCR's overall development.

The 90s to Today: Riding Tidal Wave II

A state-wide recession in the early nineties brought on drastic cuts to student services and financial aid programs as well as significant increases in fees, which caused significant drops in enrollment throughout the UC and Cal State systems. When the economy began to improve in 1994, the UC campuses immediately started receiving more applications than they had been anticipating. This surge became known as Tidal Wave II, the first "Tidal Wave" of students being the Baby Boom generation born in the post-WW2 war era. To help the UC system accommodate this growth, the Regents targeted UCR for an annual growth rate of 6.3 percent, the fastest in the UC system, and anticipated 19,900 students enrolled at UCR by 2010.

As enrollment increased at UC Riverside, so did the diversity of its student body. By 1995, fully 30 percent of UCR students were members of underrepresented minority groups, already the highest proportion of any campus in the UC system. The 1997 implementation of Proposition 209, which banned the consideration of race and ethnicity in statewide decision making, had a long term effect of further increasing the ethnic diversity at UCR while reducing it at Berkeley and UCLA, the most selective campuses in the UC system.

With UCR scheduled for dramatic population growth, a likewise push has been made to increase both its popular and academic recognition. In 1998, the students voted to increase fees to move UCR athletics into NCAA Division I standing. Plans to establish both a law school and a medical school at UCR have been in progress since Orbach's administration in the nineties, with the medical school proposal attracting substantial support from the industry as well as the local community . The Regents are expected to make their decision regarding UCR's medical school proposal in November, 2006.

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

*Bir Bhanu - Ph.D., Director of the Center for Research and Intelligent Systems, Expert in Intelligent Systems, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition and Learning
*Donna Hoffman - Ph.D., 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.
*Tom Novak - Ph.D., 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.
*Jorge Silva-Risso - Ph.D., Professor of Marketing and Director at marketing research firm J.D. Power and Associates.
*Ivan Strenski - Ph.D., Holstein Family and Community Professor of Religious Studies
*Antony Norman - Ph.D., Biochemistry a world renowned vitamin D expert.
*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, and technology
*Charles E. Young - First UCR student body president and former chancellor at University of California, Los Angeles.
*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.Arts, Film and Literature
*Billy Collins - The eleventh U.S. Poet Laureate
*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.
*Nona Colorado - Actress for "Save The Last Dance" and "Blue Crush" films.
*Jamie Chung - Cast, MTV's The Real World: San Diego. Keenyah Hill - Contestant on ANTMAthletics
*Troy Percival - Professional baseball pitcher for the Detroit Tigers.
*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..
*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.
*John W. Henry - Money manager and principal owner of the Boston Red Sox.

Nobel Laureates
*Dr. Richard R. Schrock - Chemistry, 2005 and MIT professor

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