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The
University of California, Irvine opened in 1965 with 116 faculty and 1,589 students. In the succeeding years, UCI has attained national and international distinction in its programs and faculty. The campus challenges its students both academically and personally and relies on the commitment, curiosity, imagination, and
judgment of its faculty and students to assure its continued intellectual and cultural vitality.
Two Nobel Prizes in 1995 for founding faculty F. Sherwood Rowland in Chemistry and Frederick Reines in Physics helped to secure UCI's position among the leading American Research universities. In addition to scientific prominence, several UCI humanities programs have placed among the top 25 in the country, according to recent National Research Council rankings. For overall quality of educational experience and caliber of faculty, UCI consistently rates among the top 50 universities nationwide. And membership in the American Association of Universities (AAU), a group of 60 of the most distinguished research institutions, is another indication of UCI's stature in the academic community.
UCI's research programs have a positive impact on both undergraduate and graduate education. Research is critical to graduate education because of the scholarly nature of doctoral study. At the undergraduate level, students have access to a faculty made up of researchers at the forefront of their fields. As a consequence, UCI students have full access to cutting-edge theories and scholarship.
The
Claire Trevor School of the Arts teaches the creative as well as the academic and critical dimensions of the arts. It is concerned with the vitality of the arts in society. Faculty energies are directed toward the refinement, enhancement, and encouragement of students' artistic and creative talents and toward the development of the students' understanding of related theory and history. Majors include Dance, Drama, Music, and Studio Art.
The
School of Biological Sciences is one of the campus' larger academic units, with 3,400 students (3,220 undergraduate and 180 graduate). Faculty research areas include neural plasticity and behavior (which in part encompasses the development of the nervous system, memory, response to injury, and degenerative brain diseases such as Alzheimer's disease), cancer research, and molecular and biochemistry.
The
Department of Education, with 130
post baccalaureate students, offers an Ed.D. in Educational Administration and credential programs for current and prospective teachers and administrators in California's public elementary and secondary schools. A focus of the Department's research and instructional programs is educational technology. In addition, the teaching credential programs are enriched by emphasis on literacy, multicultural perspectives, and modalities of learning. The Department is recognized throughout California for its leadership in the development of exemplary programs to improve education in grades K-12.
The
Henry Samueli School of Engineering focuses on the analysis and design of physical systems applying modern scientific principles to the development of technology for society. The major research disciplines are aerospace, biochemical, chemical, civil, computer, electrical, environmental, materials science, and mechanical engineering.
The
School of Humanities faculty has been repeatedly honored for its teaching and scholarly excellence. Included in the faculty's more than 100 research specialties are literary criticism, languages and literatures, and bilingual education.
The
Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Science
enrollment at UCI has grown by more
than 125 percent since 1998, to more
than 2,400 undergraduate and
graduate students. With experts in
areas ranging from embedded computer
systems and networking to
bioinformatics and the social
impacts of computing, the school
currently ranks 15th among all
public university computer science
graduate programs, according to
U.S. News & World Report. The
UC regents promoted information and
computer science to a school in
December 2002.
Faculty and students in the
Paul Merage School of Business are involved in studies of organizational behavior, information technology, finance, marketing, real estate, managerial economics, accounting, decision sciences, operations management, strategy, public policy, and health care management.
UCI's
Interdisciplinary Programs (IDPs) provide students with opportunities to pursue subject areas which derive from the interaction of different disciplines. The IDPs are African American Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicano/Latino Studies, Global Peace and Conflict Studies, History and Philosophy of Science, Latin American Studies, Transportation Science, and Women's Studies.
Researchers at the
School of Physical Sciences are conducting investigations in atmospheric chemistry (including the discovery of the adverse impact of man-made chlorofluorocarbon
compounds on the earth's ozone layer), biogeochemistry and climate, synthetic chemistry, laser spectroscopy, elementary particle physics (including the discoveries of a new subatomic particle -- the neutrino -- and rare subatomic event -- the double beta2 decay), plasma physics, and applied mathematics and mathematical physics.
The
School of Social Ecology, a multidisciplinary unit established in 1970, is unique to UCI. The School's central objectives are the application of scientific methods to the analysis and resolution of societal problems and the development of theory and knowledge pertinent to environmental and social phenomena. Among issues of long-standing interest are crime and justice in society, social influences on human development over the life cycle, and the effects of the physical environment on health and behavior.
The
School of Social Sciences is one of the larger academic units at UCI. The faculty, several of whom are nationally recognized, has expertise in a wide range of specific social science topics. For example, the mathematical modeling of perception and cognitive processes; the economic analysis of transportation; the examination of the impact of society's political system on its economy; the study of social structure and values in different cultures through a formal-scientific methodology; and the exploration of authority structures and inequality in society.
The
UCI School of Medicine offers one of the country's largest residency training opportunities in primary care and internal medicine and houses some of the most advanced equipment in medical imaging and laser medicine available in the world. Because of the College of Medicine's dedication to excellence, it has attracted internationally recognized researchers and clinicians. UCI medical students are a vital part of this team and, as a result, have the opportunity to work closely with the distinguished faculty. Students in the College of Medicine are encouraged to participate in research, with funding available through established fellowship programs.
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