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The University of California, Riverside is a public, coeducational university situated in Riverside, California beside Box Springs Mountain. It is one of ten University of California (UC) campuses and is popularly known as UCR or UC Riverside. As of 2003, UCR was the fastest growing UC campus in terms of enrollment and endowment.
UCR was originally established in 1907 as the Citrus Experiment Station (which introduced the navel orange to the United States) and significant agricultural research still takes place there. Today, UCR is oriented towards undergraduates, with 78 majors and 45 minors, but also offers graduate degrees. It is the only UC campus to offer an undergraduate degree in creative writing and one of only two UC campuses to offer an undergraduate degree in Business Administration. UCR features a unique biomedical sciences program which allows students to earn both B.Sc. and M.D. degrees in seven years instead of eight.
UCR is also a primary partner in the Riverside Regional Technology Park, which also includes the City of Riverside, the County of Riverside, and various private industry members. The park is intended to assist entrepreneurs in developing new products and help move UCR discoveries into the marketplace.
UCR is host to the world's largest academic collection of Star Trek material. Some of this material is apparently marked for "Library Use Only" since it is on display part of the J. Lloyd Eaton Collection (http://library.ucr.edu/?view=collections/spcol/eaton.html) on the fourth floor of the UCR Rivera Library.
UCR's Belltower. This is the most recognizable structure on the UCR campus and can be seen from miles away, even from the surrounding local freeways.
Organization
Chancellors
Gordon Watkins (1949-1956)
Herman Spieth (1956-1964)
Ivan Hinderaker (1964-1979)
Tomás Rivera (1979-1984) First Minority UC Chancellor
Daniel Aldrich (1984, acting)
Ted Hullar (1985-1987)
Rosemary Schraer (1987-1992) First Female UC Chancellor
Raymond Orbach (1992-2002)
David H. Warren (2002, acting)
France A. Córdova (2002-present)
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;
Carl Cranor - Ph.D., Professor of Legal Philosophy, Philosophic Issues in Science and the Law, Moral Philosophy, Regulatory Policy, Political Philosophy [Pioneer of toxic tort litigation, Reference to Federal Judges, elected to U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment, Collegium Ramazzini (International Headquarters in Carpi, Italy), 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
The University of California, Riverside, is a public coeducational university whose main campus is in a suburban district of the city of Riverside, California.
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.
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[9].
Riverside's downtown area is known as the "Mission Inn District", after the Mission Inn, a hotel that was modeled after the missions left along the California coast by Franciscan friars in the 18th century.
California School of the Deaf for the hearing impaired from 7th to 12th grade was open since 1934.
Riverside's predominant fl gang is known as 1200 block crip.==Landmarks== Riverside is home of the historic Mission Inn, the Historic Riverside County Courthouse (based on the Petit Palais in Paris, France), and the Fox Theater (where the first showing of Gone with the Wind took place).
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