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ucr.edu. The University of California, Riverside (UCR or UC Riverside) is a public land-grant research university in Riverside, California. It is one of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The main campus sits on 1,900 acres (769 ha) in a suburban district of Riverside with a branch campus of 20 acres (8 ha) in Palm Desert.
The history of the University of California, Riverside, or UCR, started in 1907 when UCR was the University's Citrus Experiment Station.By the 1950s, the University had established a teaching-focused liberal arts curriculum at the site, in the spirit of a small liberal arts college, but California's rapidly growing population made it necessary for the Riverside campus to become a full-fledged ...
The main campus of the University of California, Riverside (UCR) is located within the city of Riverside in western Riverside County, three miles (5 km) east of downtown, and comprises 1,112 acres (4.50 km 2) bisected by the Interstate 215 / State Route 60 freeway. Nearly half of the total area is devoted to agricultural teaching and research ...
The UC Riverside Highlanders baseball team is the varsity intercollegiate baseball team of the University of California, Riverside. [ 5] The team is a member of the Big West Conference, which is part of the NCAA Division I. UC Riverside's first baseball team was fielded in 1958. The team plays its home games at the 2,500-seat Riverside Sports ...
The University of California, Riverside, is organized into three academic colleges, two professional schools, and two graduate schools. These units provide 81 majors and 52 minors, 48 master's degree programs, and 42 PhD programs. [1] It is the only UC campus to offer undergraduate degrees in Creative Writing and Public Policy, and one of only ...
medschool.ucr.edu. The University of California, Riverside (UCR), School of Medicine is the graduate medical school of the University of California, Riverside, acting as one of six University of California medical schools. It enrolled its first class in 2013, with the first class of 40 medical students receiving their degrees on June 9, 2017.
Sabrina Cervantes – current California State Assemblywoman for the 60th District. Paul Cook – former U.S. Member of Congress for the CA-08 district, current Supervisor for San Bernardino County. David S. Cunningham, Jr. – Los Angeles City Council member, 1973–87. Patricia Lock Dawson – Mayor of Riverside, 2020 - present.
Macalyne Fristoe. Kim A. Wilcox (born May 5, 1954) is an American academic administrator who is the ninth chancellor of the University of California, Riverside. He was appointed on August 8, 2013 and began the position on August 19, 2013. He was previously at Michigan State University where he served for eight years as provost, executive vice ...