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Revelle College is the oldest residential college at the University of California, San Diego in La Jolla, California. Founded in 1964, it is named after oceanographer and UC San Diego founder Roger Revelle. UC San Diego—along with Revelle College—was founded at the height of the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union.
The undergraduate program accepted its first class of 181 freshman at Revelle College in 1964. [27] [30] Second College was founded in 1964, on the land deeded by the federal government, and named after environmentalist John Muir two years later. [31] The School of Medicine also accepted its first students in 1966. [29]
The university was designed to have a "college" system; there are now eight colleges. The first college was established in 1965 and was named Revelle College after Roger Revelle, who is regarded as the "father" of the university. [22] A medical school was established in 1968.
Revelle may refer to: 13358 Revelle (1998 TA34) is a Main-belt Asteroid; Revelle College, the first college founded at the University of California, San Diego; Roger Revelle (1909–1991), scientist and scholar after whom Revelle College is named; USNS Roger Revelle (T-AGOR-24), research vessel operated by Scripps Institution of Oceanography
S. Sacramento Country Day School; Safariland; St. Joseph High School (Santa Maria, California) St. Joseph High School (Lakewood, California) Saint Victor School
The College of Letters and Science is the largest college at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The College, which offers 90 majors and 38 minors to over 20,000 undergraduates and 2,000 graduate students, has about 700 faculty members.
Roger Revelle was born in Seattle to William Roger Revelle and Ella Dougan. He grew up in southern California. After graduating from Pomona College in 1929 with early studies in geology, he earned a PhD in oceanography from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1936.
Xie had been employed at the University of Hawaiʻi as a professor of meteorology until he joined the Scripps Institution of Oceanography of the University of California, San Diego in 2012 as the inaugural Roger Revelle Chair, [b] [7] a title named for pioneering researcher Roger Revelle, [8] established with an endowment from the Revelle family. [9]