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The Philip L. Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center is one of the original seven of the total 39 sites in the University of California Natural Reserve System. [5] It contains lands originally donated to the University by regent Philip L. Boyd in 1958. [6] The Research Center is contained within UNESCO's Mojave and Colorado Deserts Biosphere ...
The reserves support UC's mission of teaching, research, and public service. Unlike national and state parks, they are not available for recreational uses, because they were specifically created to enable UC scientists to conduct research free from such distractions. The system began with UC Berkeley zoology professor Joseph Grinnell. In 1937 ...
Much of the southern part of UCI is occupied by the University Research Park, a 158-acre (0.6 km 2) office and research property operated by the Irvine Company. A partial listing of tenants includes Broadcom , Blizzard Entertainment, [ citation needed ] Skyworks Solutions, Cisco, and Center for Educational Partnerships.
ICS buildings (center and left) viewed from the top of Bren Hall. The Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, also known colloquially as UCI's School of ICS or simply the Bren School, is an academic unit of the University of California, Irvine (UCI), and the only dedicated school of computer science in the University of California system.
The California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2, previously Cal(IT) 2), also referred to as the Qualcomm Institute (QI) at its San Diego branch, is a collaborative academic research institution of the University of California San Diego (UC San Diego), the University of California, Irvine (UCI), [5] and University of California, Riverside. [4]
UC Irvine is also responsible for establishing the Sacramento Internship Program (SIP) in 2000. It is structurally similar to UCDC's summer program, but arranges for internships in the state capital and houses interns in a private apartment complex. SIP's academic year equivalent, the Scholar Intern Program, is administered by the UC Center ...
The two major emphases of the collection are the plants of the California Floristic Province (where UC Irvine is located) and plants of South Africa.Notable among the arboretum's collection of California native plants are species from Baja California, the Channel Islands of California, the Mojave Desert, Southern maritime chaparral, Otay Mesa, and California oak woodland. [4]
The Athalie Richardson Irvine Clarke Prize, or “Clarke Prize”, is awarded annually by the National Water Research Institute (NWRI) of Fountain Valley, California. It consists of a medallion and $50,000 award for demonstrated excellence in the fields of water science and technology.