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PRINCIPLES OF COMMUNITY

Implicit in this mutual respect is the right to live, study, teach, and work in an environment that is free from harassment or denigration on the basis of race, age, religious preference, gender, sexual orientation, or national origin. Any violation of this right -- verbal or written abuse, threats, harassment, intimidation, or violence against person or property -- will be considered a violation of the principles of community that are an integral part of the University of California's focus, goals, and mission. Such behavior will be discouraged by the university to the full extent of its power.

THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

Governance Under the state constitution, governance of the university is entrusted to the Board of Regents. The Regents appoint the president of the university, and with the president's advice, the officers of the university. Among these are the vice presidents, the chancellors, and the directors of the major laboratories. The Regents also directly appoint the principal officers of the Regents: the general counsel, the treasurer, and the secretary. The Regents of the University of California and the administrative officers are listed in the back of this catalog.

Authority in academic matters is delegated by the Regents to the Academic Senate, which consists of faculty and certain administrative officers. The Academic Senate determines academic policy for the university as a whole, sets conditions for admission and the granting of degrees, authorizes and supervises courses and curricula, and advises the university administration on faculty appointments, promotions, and budgets.

Students participate in policy making at both the campus and universitywide levels.

UC RIVERSIDE

History and Development

The roots of the campus date back to 1907 when the California State Legislature established the Citrus Experiment Station to conduct research on the agricultural problems of Southern California. Graduate work was conducted early in the station's history, and today, graduate education is central to its mission.

In 1948 the Regents approved the establishment of the College of Letters and Science. Necessary legislation was passed by the Academic Senate in 1951, and the college opened for classes in February 1954. The Riverside campus was declared a general campus by act of the Regents in 1959, with a mandate to develop appropriate areas of study. In 1960, the Graduate Division was established, and graduate and professional programs were added.

The Campus

The 1,200-acre Riverside campus of the University of California is conveniently located approximately 50 miles east of Los Angeles within easy driving distance to most of the major cultural and recreational offerings in Southern California. In addition, it is virtually equidistant from the desert, the mountains, and the ocean.

The city of Riverside, with the UCR campus on its eastern edge, is accessible by several main highways. The nearby Ontario International Airport has daily flights to most of the nation's major cities as well as connecting commuter flights to the Los Angeles International Airport. Metrolink train service is available to Los Angeles.

Adjoining the campus is University Village, a retail and office complex, a joint project between UCR, the city of Riverside, and a private developer. The project includes 10 theaters, some used during the day as UCR classrooms. UCR and other professional offices, restaurants, and retail shops are also part of the complex.

Enrollment at UCR is presently about 14,500, approximately 11 percent of whom are graduate students. The campus continues to expand, with a number of buildings being constructed or remodeled. These include academic settings such as laboratories, libraries, and performing arts studios, as well as housing and recreational facilities. Prominent features of the campus include the 161-foot carillon tower, the Botanic Gardens, and acres of citrus groves.

Accreditations

UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

The University Library is the focal point for research and study at UCR. Its collections include 2,018,234 volumes, 12,814 serial subscriptions, and 1,640,193 microforms housed in four facilities: the Tomás Rivera Library (serving the humanities, arts, and social sciences), the Science Library, the Music Library, and the Media Library. The library makes extensive use of information technology, including INFOMINE, an innovative Internet Web index and search engine created by the library to provide easy access to electronic information resources throughout the world; MELVYL, the online union catalog to the collections of the libraries of all nine UC campuses; Scotty, the online catalog of UCR library collections; and the California Digital Library, which licenses and provides Web access to various electronic resources (indexing and abstracting services, full text databases, and other reference tools).

•  Circulation Services in all campus libraries are responsible for checking out materials, renewing materials, maintaining the collections, and providing information on the circulation status of library materials.
•  Education Services -- second floor, Rivera Library -- offers curriculum materials, textbooks currently in use in local schools, and a children's literature collection to support the work of students in the Graduate School of Education's teaching credential program.
•  Government Publications The University Library is a depository for both United States and California state government publications. The main collection, located in the Government Publications department on the first floor of the Rivera Library, also contains documents from local and foreign governments and international organizations as well as extensive law resources. Census and other statistics, records of legislative bodies and judicial courts, social and economic studies, scientific investigations, reports of special commissions, and a myriad of electronic information sources in CD-ROM format can be found in the department. The Science Library contains extensive collections of documents relating to the natural and agricultural sciences.
•  Interlibrary Loan Service locates and borrows needed materials not held at the UCR library. Staff at interlibrary loan offices in the Rivera Library and in the Science Library search nationwide to obtain volumes or photocopies of articles for faculty, staff, and students.
•  The Media Library -- 1001 Humanities and Social Sciences, (909) 787-5606 -- includes a wide variety of entertainment and educational programs, as well as computer-assisted instruction programs. Films and tapes can also be rented from off-campus sources. With its audiovisual equipment and media collections, the Media Resources Library serves as a walk-in playback center for the campus community.
•  The Music Library -- 054 Arts Building, (909) 787-3137 -- houses 26,073 scores, 12,397 sound recordings, and 3,530 compact discs. Current issues of selected music journals, a small reference book collection, listening facilities, and computer workstations are also available.
•  Photocopying Photoduplication and microfilm copying services are provided in the Rivera and Science libraries. In addition, Copicard- (or coin-) operated copying machines are located on each floor of these libraries.
•  Reference Services Reference librarians in the Rivera and Science libraries assist students, faculty, and staff in identifying and locating information and provide advisory services, including instruction in research strategies. All reference points offer either direct or mediated access to a number of electronic information sources. Questions may also be sent via E-mail to the Rivera Library (rivref@library.ucr.edu), the Science Library (sciref@library.ucr.edu), and the Music Library (muslib@library.ucr.edu). At the invitation of faculty members, librarians offer students instruction in the resources and research strategies appropriate to the subject of the course during a regular class session. A credit course, HASS 005 (Library Research Strategies), is also offered periodically.
•  Reserve Services are offered in all libraries. Faculty members may place materials on reserve in support of their classes. Some reserve materials are also available at http://library.ucr.edu/depts/reserves
•  The Rupert Costo Library of the American Indian -- Special Collections Library, fourth floor, Rivera Library, (909) 787-3233 -- consists of about 7,000 volumes and more than 9,000 documents, pamphlets, tape recordings, slides, and artwork. The library is one of the most important collections of research materials relating to Native Americans in the United States and the world.
•  The Science Library -- (909) 787-2821 -- is a prominent architectural structure featuring seating for 1,500 users, state-of-the-art information technology, and electronic reader stations. Its collections of 456,368 volumes and 3,025 serial subscriptions support the life and physical sciences, including engineering, agriculture, and medicine. The Map Room, with a collection of 98,632 maps and atlases, is located on the ground floor.
•  Special Collections -- fourth floor, Rivera Library, (909) 787-3233 -- houses rare books, manuscripts, and other unique or fragile materials. The J. Lloyd Eaton Collection of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and utopian literature comprises 84,000 volumes ranging from the seventeenth century to today. The Thomas Hardy and Ezra Pound Collections include printed and manuscript materials. Special Collections administers the University Archives. Outstanding holdings include the Sadakichi Hartmann Archive, the Heinrich Schenker Archive (part of the Oswald Jonas Memorial Collection), and prominent collections on Paraguay; Paris; photography; B. Traven; Victoria, Edward, and Queen Anne; the Panama Canal; national socialism; and local history.

COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATIONS

Computing and Communications (C&C) focuses on multiple areas: Faculty and Student Technical Services, Institutional Computing, Communications, Microcomputer Support Group, Media Resources, Center for Visual Computing, and Client Server/Technology. Some of C&C's services are as follows.

•  Faculty and Student Technical Services -- help desk (909) 787-3555; helpdesk@ucr.edu -- provides consultations and support for faculty desktop computer and networking needs. Consultants offer instructional technology (IT) support, which includes posting course materials on the Web, and assistance with statistical packages and other site license software. These services are available without charge to faculty.
•  The Center for Visual Computing -- (909) 787-5825; info@cvc.ucr.edu; http://cvc.ucr.edu-- provides visualization services ranging from high-end 3D graphics and animations, complete Web design and development, illustrations for course presentations and recruitment purposes, and brochures and posters for marketing, in addition to multimedia presentations and CD-authoring. The center manages the Faculty Research Lab resources, located in the C&C Building, room 161. It also provides database design and programming as well as other programming using Visual Basic script, Perl, JavaScript, and more.
•  Communications Services -- (909) 787-4624; dormtel@pop.ucr.edu -- provides the data and voice communication needs for the campus. It provides telephone service and Internet access in Aberdeen-Inverness, Lothian, and Pentland Hills residence halls. A monthly charge is assessed for these services. Voice mail is also available for a monthly service charge. Telephone service contracts are mailed to incoming residence hall students at the beginning of each new academic year. Internet access is provided in the Grandmarc Apartments, International Village, and Stonehaven Apartments for UCR student residents.
•  The Microcomputer Support Group -- helpdesk (909) 787-3555; helpdesk@ucr.edu; http://css.ucr.edu-- provides computer desktop support to all faculty and staff via on-site calls, walk-in, telephone, and pcAnywhere remote control. Technicians support hardware, software and networking of PC and Macintosh computers. The group also facilitates the Microcomputer Support Specialist program, which provides decentralized departmental support.
•  Media Resources -- (909) 787-3041 -- supports five areas: Distance Learning; the Media Library; Media Production, which consists of Video and Photographic Services; Media Services, which provides classroom equipment; and Engineering and Technical Support, which services existing equipment and recommends equipment for new campus buildings.
•  Student Computing Services -- (909) 787-6495; helpdesk@student.ucr.edu; http://www.cnc.ucr.edu/scs-- provides microcomputer facilities and services for currently enrolled UCR students. All equipment availability and operating hours are posted on the Web site. Student Computing Services is part of Faculty and Student Technical Services. The walk-in help desk is located in 2103 Watkins Hall. Microcomputers are available in computer facilities in Watkins Hall, the A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management, the Statistics-Computer Building, Sproul Hall, and the Humanities and Social Sciences Macintosh Lab. The Student Alpha Server is the E-mail server for undergraduate students running the PINE E-mail program.

CULTURAL RESOURCES

Sweeney Art Gallery

The Sweeney Art Gallery's exhibitions, publications, educational programs, and collections form one of the most public faces of the Riverside campus.

The art gallery, open since 1963, develops and presents exhibitions of contemporary and historical works of art. Approximately 10 exhibitions are mounted each year along with a changing exhibition space dedicated to the display of the permanent collection. The 2001-2002 schedule starts in Fall 2001 with "Eating Disorders in a Disordered Culture," the first visual arts project of its kind exploring the personal, cultural, and historical dimensions of eating disorders. Three one-person shows of contemporary artwork will be held in the winter and spring as part of the continuing Projects Series 2002. Also in Winter 2002, Lizzie and David Zucker Saltz from the University of Georgia in Athens will exhibit several unique installations that merge the traditional worlds of theater and sculpture with the nascent field of computer-driven, interactive, and mechanized art events. In Spring 2002, the gallery will present a two-person show focusing on representations of the political, cultural, and economic struggles of the U.S.-Mexican border. The final show is the annual Senior Thesis Art Exhibition, showcasing the artwork of graduating seniors in the Department of Art.

The art gallery's responsibilities include the interpretation, preservation, and collection of works of art for the education and enjoyment of the students, faculty, staff, and the community. In addition, the gallery produces publications and offers symposia, lectures, artist's receptions, and other events that relate to its exhibitions and to contemporary art issues. Most events are free and open to the public.

The gallery also functions as a laboratory for training future museum and other professionals. Working with faculty members from various academic departments, the gallery offers special courses and internships on topics ranging from public relations to art-historical research to exhibition installation. Additionally, by presenting the annual senior thesis exhibition, the gallery provides an initial display venue for student artists in the Department of Art. There are employment opportunities for students, and student volunteers are always welcome.

For program information or to inquire about job, internship, or volunteer opportunities, call (909) 787-3755. The gallery also offers membership to students at a reduced rate. Get the most current exhibition information online at http://sweeney.ucr.edu.

UCR/California Museum of Photography

The UCR/California Museum of Photography (UCR/CMP) is a resource unique among institutions of higher learning. The museum offers opportunities to students in many fields to see exhibitions of challenging contemporary photographic and digital media productions and to explore a vast resource of historical pictorial documents in the museum's collections.

Since its inception in 1973, the UCR/CMP has grown into a major photography exhibition and study center for the West Coast, with one of the most extensive exhibition programs and one of the largest and finest collections of photographs, cameras, and related material anywhere in the world. The museum offers temporary exhibitions that explore the relationship of photography and digital media to politics, art, and society. It also hosts performance art and new music events. Its permanent collection holds nineteenth- and twentieth-century fine art photographs, the Keystone-Mast stereoview collection, and the Bingham camera collection. A wide range of photographic books is available for purchase at the museum store. The museum also maintains one of the most frequently visited art museum Web sites in the world, with more than three million "hits" each month at http://www.cmp.ucr.edu.

In 1999, the museum opened its Digital Studio, a space where young people and adults can participate in computer-based creative expression through hands-on access to new imaging technologies. This apprenticeship program features digital photography, digital video, and Web design training on Apple G4s and iMacs.

The four-story museum, located in Riverside's downtown arts and entertainment district in an award-winning renovated dime store, has become an advocate for change and conscience in the arts on campus and in the community.

MEDIA RESOURCES

Media Resources, an academic support unit for instruction and research, assists faculty and students in the creation and use of media for class presentations, for documentation of research, and for the promotion and public services needs of the campus. The department is divided into five units: Media Services, the Media Library, Distance Learning, Video Production and Photographic Services, and Engineering and Technical Services.

•  Distance Learning -- B221 Sproul -- oversees the following technological resource systems: videoconferencing, instructional television, and satellite programming. Through videoconferencing, UCR faculty, staff, and students can connect to others within the UC system, as well as throughout the state, nation and world. The unit is also responsible for creating, distributing, and promoting both live and prerecorded programming for local broadcast (via UCR's own television channel on local cable), and for wide receipt and transmission (via satellite). A multipurpose facility, the Distance Learning classroom/studio center, is located in A139 Olmsted Hall. The Distance Learning offices create and distribute live or prerecorded instructional video programs locally, within California, or worldwide. Facilities for videoconferencing via telephone lines, classroom production for local broadcast or taping, and reception of satellite programming are located on campus. Hours: 8 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays.
•  Engineering and Technical Services -- B221 Sproul -- repairs and maintains audiovisual and television equipment for the department. The unit also plans and installs media systems and advises on equipment purchases. Hours: 8 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays.
•  Media Library -- 1001 Humanities and Social Sciences -- stores the University Library's collection of films, audio and video cassettes, and other media materials for the campus. The Media Library serves as a walk-in playback center for all these materials and for items placed there on reserve. VHS, BETA, U-Matic, laser disc, DVD, and audio cassette equipment are available for use. This unit also orders rental films and videos for instruction. Hours: 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. weekdays (Fridays until 5 p.m.); 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. weekends. Hours are adjusted for Summer Sessions.
•  Media Services -- B221 Sproul -- provides audiovisual equipment for instruction and special events. Hours: 8 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays.
•  Video Production an Photographic Services are responsible for creating new media materials in consultation with faculty, the administration, or other patrons. The units are located at two sites: Video, audio, multi-image, and film production services are in B221 Sproul; Photographic Services is in B110 Hinderaker Hall. Hours: 8 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekdays.

RESEARCH PROGRAMS AND RESOURCES

Research Centers and Institutes

The CRC-AES and other centers at UCR are described in the following sections.

Agricultural Research Institute for Deserts

The Agricultural Research Institute for Deserts promotes interdisciplinary research, service, and educational programs on sustainable and integrated practices that enhance the long-term viability of desert agriculture. Desert agriculture encompasses both production and aesthetic/amenity interests, and includes the relationship of agriculture to the environment and natural resources.

Air Pollution Research Center

The Air Pollution Research Center was established as an organized research unit on the Riverside campus in 1961. Its principal mission is to conduct fundamental and applied research in atmospheric science. These studies include such phenomena as biogenic or anthropogenic emissions, physical and chemical removal and transformation processes, and effects of chemicals and particles emitted or formed in the atmosphere on vegetation. Present research concerns are kinetic and mechanistic studies of the photolysis and reactions of small molecules of atmospheric interest using molecular beam and discharge flow techniques; laboratory studies of gas-to-particle conversion using a particle beam-mass spectrometer system; investigations of the kinetics, products, and mechanisms of the gas-phase reactions of organic compounds emitted from anthropogenic and biogenic sources with hydroxyl (OH) radicals, nitrate (NO₃) radicals, and ozone (O₃); the development of detailed chemical mechanisms for use in computer models to investigate the formation of ozone and other components of photochemical air pollution; the investigation of the atmospheric reactions of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons with use of laboratory and ambient atmospheric measurements; and studies of the effects of ozone on agricultural crops.

Bourns College of Engineering-Center for Environmental Research and Technology

The Bourns College of Engineering-Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT) was established in 1992 as a model for partnerships among industry, government, and the academic community. It is one of California's premier facilities for research into air pollution control and energy efficiency. The center is a recognized leader in environmental education, a collaborator with industry and government to improve the technical basis for regulations and policy, a creative source of new technology, and a contributor to a better understanding of the environment. CE-CERT is divided into three laboratories:
  •  emissions and fuels research
  •  environmental policy, atmospheric processes, and modeling
  •  transportation systems and vehicle technology research

CE-CERT maintains a full-time, permanent staff of researchers to conduct research projects and operate our laboratories. These engineers and scientists collaborate with colleagues from all departments in the Bourns College of Engineering, other schools and colleges on campus, and other institutions around the world. They also supervise research by graduate and undergraduate students enrolled in the college and other departments on campus. This breadth of expertise enables CE-CERT to take a "systems approach" to solving environmental problems and opens new and creative avenues for addressing some of the most difficult challenges facing society today.

California Institute for Agricultural Genomics

UCR, in cooperation with the agricultural schools at UCD and UCB, has launched an initiative to foster research in genetics and bioinformatics to find new uses for agricultural crops and animals and enhance the benefits or desirable characteristics of plants and livestock. For example, researchers are seeking to understand and manipulate the ability of crops to withstand diseases, pests, drought, and extreme temperatures. They also work to develop disease-fighting foods and lessen the allergenic properties of highly nutritious and abundant foods, such as cereals. In addition, they aim to invent new fuel, fiber, synthetic, or medicinal materials from crop plants that would create new consumer markets for the agricultural industry. The institute will include a UCR-based instrumentation lab with advanced technology in DNA sequencers and analyzers, microarray systems, and DNA colony pickers. Graduate training in genomics and bioinformatics will be offered through the Genetics Graduate Program of the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences.

Center for Asian Pacific America

The Center for Asian Pacific America (CAPA) supports research in Asian American studies in the broadest sense. Faculty involved with CAPA have identified sites of common interest and inquiry from the divergence of an array of fields. A current focus is the arena of public culture, including such diverse topics as Asian American political life, the changing sociological landscape, the renaissance of expressive culture, and the increasing hegemony of media representation and its self-referentiality.

Center for Bibliographical Studies

The Center for Bibliographical Studies supports research and publication by faculty and students in bibliography and the history of the book. It is based upon two internationally renowned programs.

The English Short Title Catalog (EngSTC) is a landmark national bibliography. A reference and research tool of unprecedented power and versatility, it is the largest cooperative bibliographic project ever attempted. It is based upon the Eighteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue (ESTC), which is designed to record every item within its scope published in Great Britain or its dependencies in the eighteenth century in a machine-readable, on-line file. In 1987, it was extended backwards in time to 1475, thus becoming the EngSTC.

The California Newspaper Project (CNP) is the state segment of the United States Newspaper Project, a national effort to record the surviving issues of all newspapers published in the United States in the national serials database. In addition to creating a union list of U.S. newspapers in California repositories, the CNP also conducts an extensive preservation program to insure that representative runs of California titles are available for use by future generations.

Center for Bio/Technology

The Center for Bio/Technology focuses faculty research strengths in agriculture, environmental science, biomedical science, and informatics that could be used to create or utilize new technology. Faculty from the colleges of Natural and Agricultural Sciences and Engineering also work with local industry, venture capitalists, and Inland Empire educational institutions to improve the biotech infrastructure in the region and to enhance K-12 teacher training and student education. The Center for Bio/Technology is under the direction of the Office of Intellectual Property Services, in the Office of the Vice Chancellor, Research.

Center for Conservation Biology

The Center for Conservation Biology assists in the conservation and restoration of species and ecosystems by facilitating collection, evaluation, and dissemination of scientific information. The center identifies new and existing research priorities in conservation biology and inaugurates new research programs. Many activities of the center are regional, centered on the diverse species and habitats that form the natural heritage of Southern California, but other activities extend far beyond this focus. The research and other work of the center provide cultural, economic, and aesthetic benefits locally and globally.

The center was created in response to increasing pressure related to endangered species, habitat loss and fragmentation, and challenges regarding public use or development of lands. The center employs partnerships with local and national government agencies, private sector interest groups, and the university to address natural resource management issues. Resolution of many of the biological resource management issues that confront Riverside County, the state of California, and the nation must ultimately rest on the intersection of sound science and wise public policy. The center fulfills its "honest broker" role by providing the sound science on which good public policy decisions can be based.

Center for Exotic Pest Research

Entomologists, botanists, biologists, nematologists, and plant pathologists from UCR head up collaborative efforts with other UC scientists as well as with state and federal government researchers to define and implement critical research on pests introduced into California that present risks to public health and economically important plants. Exotic pests currently causing the state billions of dollars in property and crop damage and in control efforts each year include the Formosan termite, the red imported fire ant, the Africanized honey bee, the glassy-winged sharpshooter, and the avocado thrips. The center seeks to develop a systematic methodology for dealing with exotic pests and diseases through risk assessment, early detection, rapid development of control or eradication measures, and the exploration of transgenic biological manipulations.

Center for Family Studies

The Center for Family Studies was established in 1991 to create an interdisciplinary context devoted to research and dissemination of new advances in knowledge about the contemporary family. The goals of the center are focused on significant advances in family theory, research, and treatment requiring an interdisciplinary approach to family issues. A variety of disciplines including anthropology, education, history, sociology, and psychology are represented in the center.

Families in the United States are undergoing rapid changes in structure and composition, and there is a need to understand and document these changes. Demographic shifts across historical time are often treated independently of family process issues. By providing a forum for an interdisciplinary dialogue the interplay across different levels of analysis can be more clearly understood.

A central mission of the center is understanding the role of ethnic variation in families. The diverse population of Southern California represents a unique opportunity to explore this issue. A primary goal is to develop a research and policy agenda for family issues for the twenty-first century. Ongoing projects include studies of economic stress on Mexican-American families and families in other ethnic groups. Collaborative arrangements with other institutions, such as local school districts and treatment facilities, have been established to facilitate research and to aid in defining policy priorities. Finally, through conferences, symposia, and workshops, the center disseminates recent advances in knowledge about families to both scholarly and professional communities. Student participation in research and dissemination activities is encouraged.

Center for Ideas and Society

The Center for Ideas and Society, established in 1989, promotes and advances collaborative humanistic research and study at UCR as well as nationally and internationally. It is especially interested in fostering inquiry from multiple perspectives and disciplines and in furthering more robust and nuanced understandings of topics than is frequently possible within traditional disciplines. Individual research projects sponsored by the center need not be interdisciplinary, comparative, or collaborative but will be enriched by investigation from several disciplinary points of view.

The center provides resident fellowships for collaborative groups of UCR faculty and advanced graduate students; in both resident groups and nonresident focus groups, it brings together groups of scholars from several disciplines to investigate humanistic topics and examine research subjects of common interest; it appoints distinguished visiting faculty fellows who work with the resident groups and interact with the community of the campus and the city of Riverside; it sponsors, develops, and hosts conferences, lectures, workshops, and colloquia; it funds a wide variety of humanistic research projects on campus; and it assists academic departments and individual faculty members in bringing distinguished visitors to campus.

The center holds grants from the Ford and Rockefeller foundations that are used to offer fellowships, conferences, lectures, and research group opportunities. It is hoped that opportunities stemming from the various programs establish new directions for research in many fields.

Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering

The colleges of Natural and Agricultural Science and Engineering have collaborated in establishing this UCR research center, led by an internationally recognized pioneer in advanced materials science. UCR engineers, physicists, computer scientists, neuroscientists, biologists, chemists, and biomedical scientists explore nanoscale materials, such as organic compounds with electronic properties, to use these compounds in developing new or improved technologies. For example, research in this area has applications to the development of tiny, powerful computers and data communication devices, novel biomedical technologies (such as neural networks to repair damaged brain or spinal systems), and superstrong but lightweight building materials.

Center for Plant Cell Biology

This new center unites biochemists, cell biologists, and botanists in examining plant systems, such as their signaling and trafficking pathways involved in seed production, photosynthesis, and tissue secretions, and the ways in which these processes are regulated at the molecular and cellular level. Research in this area has applications for agriculture but also for human biology, as it can shed light on the genetic adaptations occurring in response to changing environmental or climatic conditions.

Center for Research in Intelligent Systems

The Center for Research in Intelligent Systems (CRIS) promotes interdisciplinary research for developing computer systems that are flexible, adaptive, and intelligent. The ultimate goal of the center is the research and development of autonomous/semiautonomous systems with sensing capabilities that are able to communicate and interact with other intelligent (biological and artificial) systems. These intelligent systems will be able to perform tasks that require understanding the environment through knowledge, learning, reasoning, and planning. Advancements in each of the many enabling technologies required represent a major challenge and will have great impact on a wide range of applications, such as autonomous navigation, manufacturing, robotics, photo interpretation, space exploration, document understanding, remote sensing, human-computer interaction, environmental monitoring, image communication, digital libraries, data mining, management, economics, and health care.

CRIS involves an interdisciplinary team of UCR faculty members from seven departments (Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Psychology, Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, and Management). This collaboration encourages greater understanding and broader perspectives than is possible within a single department. CRIS advances the education and research goals of the university through interdisciplinary collaborative research in the intelligent systems area.

Center for Social and Behavioral Science Research

The center conducts investigation in a broad range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary fields and brings together groups of scholars to build projects of common interest. The center's core research focuses on policy evaluation of issues related to the cultural, social, political, and environmental conditions that affect the inhabitants of the United States. Current projects deal with immigration, inequities in digital access, competition among local governments for economic development, citizen support and opposition to the privatization of public services, policy making for residential development controls, and the public's evaluation of public services through the Inland Empire Annual Survey.

Center for Social and Economic Policy

The center conducts policy analysis and research using quantitative, historical, and social scientific approaches. One of the goals of the center is to bring the expertise and nonpartisan perspective of the university's faculty to the service of policy making, the news media, and the public. It also assists faculty in integrating policy analysis into courses and teaching students the basics of good policy analysis. The center also provides access for faculty and graduate students to large-scale longitudinal and historical data collections relevant to social and economic policy concerns.

Citrus Research Center and Agricultural Experiment Station

In 1914, the Regents of the university approved expansion of the Experiment Station, and a new site was purchased at the base of the Box Springs Mountains, where the UCR campus lies today. The corridors of the earliest buildings on the site, first occupied in 1917, are rich in associations with pioneer scientific discoveries and the early researchers who made them. Today those headquarters buildings are marked by a Riverside County Historical Landmark plaque.

Over the years, research of the Experiment Station was expanded to cover a variety of fruit, vegetable, field, and industrial crops grown in Southern California. In 1961, the original name of the Experiment Station was changed to the Citrus Research Center-Agricultural Experiment Station to reflect the increasingly broader scope of research.

The mission of the CRC-AES and Cooperative Extension (see separate listing) is to

•   Discover and advance knowledge in the agricultural and environmental sciences,
•  Provide leadership in the dissemination and application of research-based knowledge to the people of California, and
•  Provide opportunities for education and preparation of tomorrow's leaders in agricultural and environmental sciences.

Today the major programmatic strengths of the CRC-AES are in plant sciences, pest and disease management, invasive species research, and environmental and natural resource science.

Emphasis within the CRC-AES is placed on innovative research leading to development of new technologies, such as those involving recombinant DNA and other genetic engineering techniques. Collaborations of CRC-AES researchers have created research centers focusing specifically on desert agriculture and exotic pests. Interdepartmental graduate programs in Plant Genetics, Microbiology, Soil and Water Sciences, and Environmental Toxicology also reflect the collaborative approach of CRC-AES researchers. Each of these programs consists of a team of UCR faculty whose research interests are closely linked.

The research staff of the CRC-AES comprises 100 scientists who are engaged in studies of fundamental problems of cellular and molecular biology, plant and invertebrate animal ecology, and basic aspects of plant breeding, culture, and protection. Most of the research staff teach both undergraduate and graduate students in the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences. Their familiarity with current research problems and solutions strengthens academic programs and provides instruction and training for approximately 480 students in 22 graduate programs.

The CRC-AES and the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences together maintain 1,720 acres of land for agricultural research. This includes 420 acres immediately adjacent to the campus, 760 acres at the Moreno Ranch field station, and 540 acres in the Coachella Valley. The regional office of Cooperative Extension is also located on the UCR campus. CRC-AES scientists, in carrying out their research tasks, work closely with the 15 Cooperative Extension offices in the Southern Region, campus-based specialists, and regional county advisors to ensure a continuous flow of information from research programs to the public, the agricultural industry, and students.

Costo Historical and Linguistic Native American Research Center

The Costo Center seeks to advance scholarship in Native American Studies, with a particular focus on California Indians and native peoples of the Pacific Rim. It builds on the expertise of faculty from several departments and the unique resources of the Rupert Costo Library of the American Indian, a special collection housed in the Special Collections Library.

Ernesto Galarza Applied Research Center

The mission of the Ernesto Galarza Applied Research Center is threefold: to develop applied research, training, and practicing projects and programs that contribute to the intellectual growth and social well-being of the Mexican/Latino populations; to initiate and improve the formation and implementation of local, state, national, and transnational practices and policies that contribute to the educational, economic, ecological, health, labor, and technological advancement of Mexican/Latino communities of the United States and transnationally, when possible; and to provide maximum opportunities for faculty and students to become engaged in research, training, teaching, and application of policy and practices on topics central to the center.

Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics

The Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) is a multicampus research unit, established in 1967, that promotes basic research at UCR into the structure, origin, and evolution of the universe. In pursuit of this mission, IGPP research extends from the earth's core to the far reaches of space. Interdisciplinary research by faculty and students of the colleges of Natural and Agricultural Sciences and Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences focuses on the areas of astrophysics, space physics, solid earth geophysics, geochemistry, archeometry, and tectonophysics.

Integral to IGPP research projects is the development of the new technologies, such as high-resolution gamma ray telescopes for astrophysics research, development of the capacity to simulate the extreme pressures and temperatures of the earth's deep mantle for mineral physics and tectonophysics experiments, alternate thermonuclear fusion technologies, and enhancement of radiocarbon dating techniques for archaeology and paleoenvironmental analysis.

The IGPP manages UCR's Central Facility for Advanced Microscopy and Microanalysis, which houses state-of-the-art transmission and scanning electron microscopes, a new laser-confocal microscope, and other microanalytical facilities. The microscopes function with UCR's Center for Visual Computing to provide microvisualization at the frontier of physical and biological sciences.

The institute also hosts the ElectroMagnetic Studies of Continents Consortium founded by UCR, the University of Washington, and the University of Utah, with help from the National Science Foundation. This consortium manages a pool of electromagnetic instruments for geophysical studies that are conducted by researchers across the country (see http://vortex.ucr.edu for details).

The IGPP has other branches on the Los Angeles, San Diego, and Santa Cruz campuses and at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Institute for Research on World-Systems

The Institute for Research on World-Systems (IROWS) organizes collaborative research among social and physical scientists on long-term, large-scale social change and its ecological, geographical and epidemiological causes and effects. Research foci include globalization; urbanization and settlement systems; human interaction networks; the rise and fall of cities, states, and empires; climate change; and human-microbe interactions. IROWS facilitates interdisciplinary collaborative research among geophysicists, meteorologists, statisticians, epidemiologists, sociologists, anthropologists, geographers, political scientists, historians, and economists.

Robert Presley Center of Crime and Justice Studies

Director: Robert Nash Parker, Ph.D.
2159 College Building South
(909) 787-2196; robnp@aol.com
http://www.chass.ucr.edu/csbsr/presley.html

The Robert Presley Center of Crime and Justice Studies was formed on the Riverside campus after being approved by the Regents in January 1994. The center succeeds the former Robert Presley Institute of Corrections Research and Training. The center's guiding purpose is to generate knowledge essential for the formation and implementation of effective crime prevention and control policies. To that end, it encourages and facilitates research in the social sciences on basic as well as policy-related questions regarding justice, legal concepts and processes, social deviance and control, and research strategies for addressing such questions.

A particular concern is the systematic and ongoing evaluation of both established and experimental policies and programs. Among studies currently under way or in the planning state are investigations of the impact of alternative juvenile hall units on success rates of out-of-home placements; the impact of enhanced mental health services and coordination in schools on youth aggression and school violence; youth homicide trends and their implications for prevention approaches; child and spousal abuse in relation to criminal violence; racial profiling in traffic stops; community development and early childhood intervention strategies for preventing delinquency; and the development of community wide strategies for youth violence prevention.

UC Centers for Water and Wildland Resources

The UC Centers for Water and Wildland Resources is a universitywide unit comprising the Water Resources Center, Wildland Resources Center, Salinity and Drainage Research Program, and Water Quality Program. The centers are headquartered at the Riverside campus. The Salinity and Drainage Research Program and Water Quality Program are coordinated from the Riverside office, and the remaining programs are coordinated from the Davis campus. The centers support research, extension, and educational activities on a broad spectrum of water and wildland resource topics.

UC Institute for Mexico and the United States (UC MEXUS)

UC MEXUS was established in 1980 to identify, focus, and augment the resources of the nine campuses of the university as they relate to research, education, creative activity, and public service concerning Mexico and people of Mexican origin. The institute facilitates, supports, and promotes work in the following areas:

Mexican Studies Mexico's history, society, politics, culture, arts, and economy.

United States-Mexico Relations Contemporary and historical economic, political, demographic, and cultural interactions between the United States and Mexico.

Chicano Studies The history, society, culture, and condition of Mexican-origin populations in the context of American society and institutions and their interaction with other U.S. immigrant groups.

Critical Issues Urgent policy-related (public policy or scientific) topics affecting Mexico, the United States and Mexico, the United States-Mexico relationship, or Mexican-origin populations in the United States.

UC-Mexico Collaboration Collaborative work between the University of California and Mexican scientists in the social, physical, biological, engineering, health, agricultural, and marine sciences, as well as in the arts and humanities.

Within this broad definition, UC MEXUS seeks to identify, encourage, secure financial support for and publicize programs that promise to contribute substantially to scholarship, enhance university instruction (particularly in graduate and professional areas), improve binational understanding, and make positive contributions to society in both Mexico and the United States.

Women in Coalition Research Center

Women in Coalition (WIC) is the research wing of the Department of Women's Studies. It seeks to promote dialogue between scholars, activists, and policy makers about gender, race, and class inequities within domestic, transnational, and international contexts. As such, it focuses on women's participation in grassroots organizations, nongovernmental organizations and educational institutions throughout the world and from underrepresented communities within the United States. WIC is committed to cross-disciplinary cooperation in such areas as women's rights and human rights, economic and political empowerment, feminist forms of community organizing and leadership. WIC'S primary goal is the production and circulation of knowledge about women's efforts to ameliorate conditions of everyday life for themselves, their kin, and their communities. That such knowledge is collaboratively constituted across national, ethnic, economic, political, and racial divides is crucial to WIC's aims. For these reasons, coalition building is the practical core of its work. Activities include conferences, seminars, public performances and exhibitions, scholar/community intellectuals-in-residence programs, and public lectures.

Additional Research Resources

Botanic Gardens

The UCR Botanic Gardens are divided into two parts. One part is the landscaped area around the campus buildings demonstrating the use of a wide assortment of plants that grow well in the inland area of Southern California. Representatives of some species have been labeled for the benefit of visitors. The grounds are open to the public every day of the year.

The second part of the Botanic Gardens comprises more than 40 acres of gardens along the eastern boundary of the campus. The entrance may be reached by following the road leading southeast from parking lots 10 and 13 off East Campus Drive. This area is open to visitors from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, with the exception of the following holidays: January 1, July 4, Thanksgiving Day, and December 25.

The gardens were established for teaching purposes and provide a wide assortment of plant materials for courses such as anthropology, art, biology, conservation, ecology, entomology, morphology, ornamental horticulture, plant pathology, photography, and taxonomy. Not only are the gardens used by UCR classes, but they are visited by classes from a variety of educational institutions in the vicinity of Riverside, as well as by other groups interested in furthering their knowledge of plants.

Other important functions of the gardens are to provide plant materials for various research projects and to serve for the testing and exhibition of plant species introduced from all parts of the world. Specialty collections include California Deserts, Baja California, Australian, Latin American and South African plants, as well as cacti, cycads, herbs, irises, lilacs, and roses. A geodesic dome lath house holds shade-loving plants. An attached orchard displays rare subtropical fruits that will grow in the Riverside area. The lower and middle elevations of the gardens are accessible to handicapped people.

California Educational Research Cooperative

The California Educational Research Cooperative (CERC) is a unique partnership among county offices of education, local school districts, and the Graduate School of Education. It is designed to serve as a research, development, and graduate training center for members and the school by combining the professional experience and practical wisdom of practicing professional educators with the theoretical interests and research talents of UCR's Graduate School of Education faculty. CERC provides a cooperative forum for systematic study and joint action to resolve pressing problems facing public schools.

Founded in 1988 as an educational research service for decision makers and a laboratory for faculty and graduate student interaction in the conduct of research, CERC's agenda creates a balance among research significance, school district need, and student learning. Close cooperation with local school districts and county offices of education is a central feature of UCR's commitment to support performing relevant, high-quality research for school improvement. Now one of the nation's most impressive regional applied research centers in education, CERC member districts represent a combined average daily attendance of more than 180,000 kindergarten through twelfth grade students, nearly 5 percent of all California school children.

Cooperative Extension

Cooperative Extension (CE) bridges the gap between basic research conducted in campus laboratories and the individuals, organizations, and communities who are the end users of that research. UCR has 30 CE specialists who conduct outreach efforts in close cooperation with county-based CE advisors located in 51 offices throughout the state. Research and extension programs include sustainable agriculture, pest management, consumer sciences and marketing, irrigation, water quality, urban horticulture, and natural resources management.

George E. Brown, Jr., Salinity Laboratory

Operating in close cooperation with UCR, the George E. Brown, Jr., Salinity Laboratory (GBSLB) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service is the only research facility in the nation devoted specifically to the study and amelioration of salinity- and pesticide-related agricultural and environmental problems. Through the development of new knowledge and technology that targets problems of broad scope and high national priority, the GBSLB seeks to ensure the adequate production of food and agricultural products, to sustain a viable food and agricultural economy, and to maintain a quality environment and natural resource base. Salinity-related problems cost the United States approximately five billion dollars a year in crop losses, not to mention the incalculable costs to wildlife and the environment.

To accomplish its goals the research of the GBSLB is carried out in three management units: Soil and Water Chemistry and Assessment Research; Plant Science Research; and Soil Physics and Pesticide Research. GBSLB research projects include developing water quality and reclamation models; elucidating and quantifying the effects of salts on soils and plants; developing assessment instrumentation and technology; developing strategies to control pesticides; evaluating, predicting, and reducing pollution of soil, water, and air by pesticides while increasing their efficacy; and increasing yield and quality of crops grown on salt-affected soils. The synergy between the GBSLB and UCR researchers is substantially enhanced with the laboratory's location on the UCR campus.

International Services Center

The International Services Center provides special assistance to UCR's international students and scholars, offers counseling and administrative support to anyone interested in participating in an overseas opportunity, and sponsors intercultural enrichment activities. International educational exchange programs and opportunities are described in the Student Services section of this catalog.

Natural Reserve System

The purpose of the Natural Reserve System is to establish and maintain for teaching and research purposes a system of reserves encompassing the diversity of California's natural terrain, both aquatic and terrestrial. Any qualified individual or institution may use the reserve system under the direction and with the approval of the university. UCR administers 8 of the approximately 35 reserves systemwide.

•  The Philip L. Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center encloses approximately 331/2 square miles of desert habitat around Deep Canyon, in the Colorado Desert near Palm Desert. An air-conditioned field station with living quarters and laboratories is located near the mouth of Deep Canyon. A primitive campground and two-square-mile teaching area is available for class use.
•  The James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve near Idyllwild is approximately 30 acres, surrounded on all sides by relatively undisturbed national forest land. Sixty miles of hiking trails connect the base reserve with thousands of acres of mid- and high-elevation wilderness, from nearby Lake Fulmor to the summit of Black Mountain at 7,800 feet. The reserve is equipped for field classes of up to 30 students and has indoor housing for small groups.
•  The Oasis de los Osos Reserve is located near Snow Creek at the northern base of Mount San Jacinto. This property consists of 160 acres of rocky desert slopes and a dry alluvial fan. It also contains a perennial stream (Lamb Creek) with some waterfalls. A riparian woodland grows along this stream. A semi-desert scrub plant community occurs on the dry slopes and alluvial fan, as well as along the washes. No facilities are available at this site.
•  The Box Springs Reserve consists of 160 acres near the top of Box Springs Mountains. The property includes both coastal sage scrub and chaparral habitats. No laboratory facilities are present on the property, due to the proximity of such facilities on the UCR campus. This reserve has been used for field class laboratories and student research projects. However, other research projects can be conducted at this site.
•  The Sacramento Mountains Reserve contains approximately 590 acres of desert habitat in the Mojave Desert. It is located about 18 miles west of Needles along Interstate Highway 40. This property contains at least seven species of cacti, including one of the best displays of Bigelow Cholla (Opuntia bigelovii) in California. No laboratory facilities or living quarters are present on this site. However, a campsite is available for anyone wishing to use the reserve overnight for teaching or research.
•  The Motte Rimrock Reserve consists of approximately 650 acres at the northwestern corner of Perris, about 15 miles from campus. The vegetation is principally coastal sage scrub and grassland with riparian corridors in the canyons. This land is of more than usual biological interest for this region because it contains several species of special concern. Indian pictographs and a former Indian village site also are on this reserve. A headquarters building contains sleeping facilities and a small laboratory for reserve users.
•  The Emerson Oaks Reserve is located 5 miles east of Temecula and 1 mile south of Highway 79. This 200-acre site contains coastal sage scrub on the lower hills, chaparral on the upper slopes, and oak woodland (primarily coast live oak) in the valley portion. More than 20 acres of oaks also occur on a bench on one of the hillsides. Several permanent springs are on the property. No facilities are available at present.
•  The Jack and Marilyn Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center contains approximately 9,000 acres in the Mojave Desert near Amboy (between Barstow and Needles). It has unusual biotic diversity, ranging from low Mojave Desert flora and fauna to remnant Colorado Plateau biota on the highest peaks. A campground and a small building at Norris Camp are available for class use, and the Allanson complex includes a state-of-the-art, stand-alone research laboratory.

Richard J. Heckmann International Center for Entrepreneurial Management

Under the auspices of the A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management (AGSM), the Richard J. Heckmann International Center for Entrepreneurial Management will anchor international business programs in Palm Desert, California. Through cooperative arrangements with educational institutions, including other colleges and schools of UCR, the center will become a focal point for higher education in the Coachella Valley. This center will include buildings, classrooms, and research facilities that will also serve the educational and outreach purposes of the campus partners and the AGSM.

The Center for Entrepreneurial Management was created in July 1995, in response to a growing demand for entrepreneurial education in business schools throughout the world, as well as within public and private business arenas. With its incorporation within the Heckmann International Center for Entrepreneurial Management, it will be even better positioned to establish itself as an internationally renowned source of entrepreneurial research and education. The Heckmann Center is scheduled to open its doors Fall 2002.

Statistical Consulting Center

The Statistical Consulting Center provides consultative services, including design of experiments, statistical data reduction, inference and modeling for the campus community, and promotes cooperative research between statisticians and other investigators in all fields of the application of statistics. The center is staffed by faculty and graduate students.

SUPPLEMENTARY EDUCATION PROGRAMS

English as a Second Language

University Extension offers a complete intensive program in English as a Second Language for foreign students preparing to enter an American college or university, or for professionals who need improvement in English. See International Education Programs under the University of California Extension listing or the address above for more information.

Reserve Officers' Training Corps

•  Air Force ROTC (AFROTC) offers two-, three-, and four-year programs leading to a commission as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. The program is open to almost all students pursuing baccalaureate and graduate degrees. Classes consist of one hour of academics and two hours of leadership laboratory per week for freshmen and sophomores, and three hours of academics and two hours of leadership laboratory per week for juniors and seniors. The program offers numerous scholarship opportunities, but scholarships are not required to participate in the program. It offers various one- to four-year scholarships covering up to 100% annual tuition, along with a nontaxable monthly stipend. The program is offered on the campuses of the University of Southern California; California State University, San Bernardino; and Harvey Mudd College. For more information contact the Department of Aerospace Studies at (213) 740-2670 or visit http://www.usc.edu/afrotc.

•  Army ROTC Through arrangements with Claremont McKenna College and the Department of Military Science at California State University, San Bernardino, two- and four-year Army ROTC (AROTC) programs are available to all qualified UCR students. Academic units earned in the program may be counted as elective units toward fulfillment of UCR graduation requirements. Successful completion of the AROTC program, upon graduation, leads to a commission as a second lieutenant with subsequent service on active duty or assignment to an Army Reserve unit. Scholarships for two and three years are available to qualified students. A monthly $250 to $350 subsistence allowance is paid during the last two years of the program. Simultaneous participation in a reserve unit and the AROTC program is allowed; participants are eligible to receive pay from both programs. Interested students may obtain more information by calling Claremont McKenna College, (909) 621-8102, or the Military Science Department, Army ROTC Program, CSU San Bernardino, (909) 880-7322.

Summer Sessions and Special Programs

Two five-week Summer Sessions are held each year on the UCR campus. Anyone who is a high school graduate or at least eighteen years of age may attend. In addition, high school students who have at least a 3.5 GPA average in all college preparatory subjects may apply to the Summer Academy for Advanced High School Students. It is not necessary for a student to be admitted to the university to attend Summer Sessions, nor does admission to a Summer Session constitute admission to a regular session of the university. A wide variety of courses from the regular sessions is offered, especially education courses and those courses meeting general college or division requirements. All UCR courses are normally transferable to other institutions and applicable to degree programs. For UCR students, credits and grades are automatically placed on their official transcript and record without any necessity to transfer them. UCR continuing students wishing to take courses in excess of 9 units per session must have the approval of their college dean. All other students must have the permission of the director of Summer Sessions.

Fees for a Summer Session are the same for California residents and nonresidents. These fees are competitive and based upon a per-course tuition basis. Special discounts apply for UCR students, career staff employees, and senior citizens.

See the above address for catalogs and application forms.

University Honors Program

Excellent students in most undergraduate programs in the colleges of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences; Natural and Agricultural Sciences; and Engineering can participate in the University Honors Program (UHP). The lower-division UHP curriculum emphasizes special seminars, projects, and classes designed to introduce honors students to the rewards of scholarship and research. The upper-division UHP provides the student with the framework to produce a thesis or project under the supervision of a faculty advisor. In both the lower-division and upper-division years, the UHP challenges honors students to take an active role in shaping their education.

The program offers a variety of extracurricular activities. It publishes a student-edited newsletter; provides guidebooks, catalogs, and test schedules; and offers clerical help for honors students applying to graduate and professional schools. A reading room, seminar room, and lounge and work space with computer facilities are available to honors students.

Freshmen are admitted to the lower-division UHP on the basis of high school academic and extracurricular records. Continuing UCR students with an excellent academic record may apply or be nominated to participate in upper-division honors whether or not they completed lower-division honors. Students who transfer to UCR as juniors with excellent academic records may also apply or be nominated to the upper-division UHP.

UC Riverside Extension

University Extension is the part of the university that provides education to students not enrolled at UCR, making the scholars, research, and resources of the university available to young people and adults. Although a large proportion of Extension students have attended college, most Extension programs are open to anyone who seeks higher education.

Credit earned in certain Extension courses may be applicable to degree requirements at the time of admission to the university. (See University of California Extension Courses in the Curricula and Courses section.) Students who have earned credits through Extension and are interested in having these credits applied to degrees, or who are interested in earning credits through Extension that meet degree requirements, should check with the Admissions Office about the applicability of such credit. Resident students in the university wishing to apply Extension credit to degree requirements must have advance approval from the dean of their college or division before enrolling in Extension courses.

University Extension offers degree credit, postgraduate continuing education credit, and noncredit programs for pursuit of intellectual and cultural interests, professional and career advancement, and examination of topical thinking on public affairs and urban problems.

Programs are offered in nearly all disciplines, including anthropology, animal science, art, earth science, economics, education, engineering, English, environmental sciences, history, human resources, law, literature, management, mathematics, music, philosophy, plant sciences, political science, psychology, real estate, sociology, urban studies and the natural sciences.

Programs vary in length and format, from one-day conferences and short lecture series to courses lasting more than one quarter and certificate programs requiring more than two years of part-time study to acquire the necessary knowledge and skills for a particular professional or avocational activity. University Extension services are available through five major channels:

1. Courses are organized in cities and towns, as well as on the UCR campus, wherever a sufficient number of people wish to study a subject.
2. The Center for Media and Independent Learning offers lessons, study materials, and university faculty guidance by mail, e-mail, fax, and online.
3. Conferences and special activities for interested groups are provided for periods ranging from one day to several weeks. Some of these programs are offered in cooperation with professional associations, government agencies, and business enterprises.
4. Educational films and videocassettes are available from the Center for Media and Independent Learning.

International Education Programs

International Education Programs
UCR Extension Center
1200 University Avenue
Riverside, CA 92507-4596
(909) 787-4346; fax (909) 787-5796; ucriep@ucx.ucr.edu
http://www.ucrextension.net/iep

For catalogs and literature describing these services in detail, write to University of California Extension at any of the following addresses: University of California Extension, Berkeley 94720; Davis 95616-9988; Irvine 92716; Los Angeles 90024; Riverside 92507-4596; Santa Barbara 93106; San Diego 92093; Santa Cruz 95064.

UC Washington Center

This program provides undergraduate students with a multidimensional educational experience in Washington, D.C. Students undertake academic pursuits as well as cultural and social activities. The program combines course work with field research and internship experience. Students also participate in tours of local sites and dialogue with distinguished professionals in the Speaker Series.

Students from all majors can benefit from the program. Art, art history, and dramatic arts students can intern at the numerous arts organizations, from the Kennedy Center to the Shakespeare Theatre to the Capital Children's Museum. The National Institutes of Health offer internships for pre-medical and science students. Geography and anthropology students can intern at the National Geographic Society or the Smithsonian Institution. History students can work in many archives and museums. Besides internships, living in the Washington metropolitan area offers a unique experience much like spending a quarter abroad. The nation's capital is a diverse and dynamic city with a myriad of cultural and government-related activities.

The UC Washington Center is in downtown Washington, six blocks from the White House. This innovative teaching and research facility shared by the other UC campuses has classrooms, faculty and staff offices, a small library, a modern computer lab with both IBM and Mac computers and printers, and a student lounge. Participants of the Washington Center program also have borrowing privileges at the undergraduate library at Georgetown University in Washington, as well as the Library of Congress.

Academic Program

Students also enroll in the interdisciplinary Washington Seminar. This provides the student with the opportunity to examine aspects of the Washington, D.C. area, including cultural, political, and governmental institutions as well as the arts and media. Students are introduced to a variety of sites and speakers and asked to explore one topic. This course is optional for students enrolled in 8 units of internship.

Students choose their third course from electives offered by UC faculty in residence in Washington. These elective classes are 4 to 5 units each and are in several disciplines, including selections from the social and natural sciences, arts, and humanities. All courses take advantage of Washington's unique resources for study and research.

The quarters in D.C. are extended to approximately 12 weeks, so they may begin or end on dates different from the regular UCR quarter. Students live in UC-arranged housing, together with students from all the participating UC campuses, to experience a social and intellectual community throughout the quarter.

Academic Planning/How to Apply

Eligibility and Selection

Financial Matters

Many forms of financial assistance are available to participants. Students who receive state and federal financial aid may use their scholarships, grants, and loans to finance their quarter away. Students who receive financial aid may also be eligible for funds from the President's Washington Scholarship. Other support may also be available; students should consult with the director of the program for more information.

HONORARY SOCIETIES

  The UCR Circle of Omicron Delta Kappa was chartered in 1994 and strives toward the original ideals set by the founders back in 1914. Men and women undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty, staff, and alumni of UCR are all welcome to apply during each spring quarter. Undergraduate students must be at least in their junior year, and have a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher. Members are selected on the basis of academic achievement, proven leadership ability, and diverse involvement in campus organizations.

•  Order of Omega is a national honor society founded at the University of Miami in the fall of 1959 by a group of outstanding fraternity men, who felt that individuals in the Greek community should be recognized for their service to the fraternity system and the university. The Kappa Alpha Chapter of Order of Omega was chartered at UCR in 1989. The Order of Omega honors only the top 3 percent of the university Greek population for excellence in academics, leadership and campus/community service. Any junior or senior member of a national Greek organization who has maintained a minimum 3.0 cumulative GPA is eligible to apply. New members are selected every spring quarter.

•  Phi Beta Kappa is the oldest (1776) American scholarly fraternity. Iota Chapter (California) at UCR is, like all other chapters, subject to regulations of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. It may elect approximately 10 percent of seniors majoring in liberal subject areas of the arts and sciences. Scholarly achievement, character, and broad cultural interests are the bases for election by Iota Chapter. Grades earned in applied or professional courses are not counted in computing GPA. Eligibility is determined during the spring quarter by a committee of members, and invitations to join are extended at that time. All prospective members must have the equivalent of level four (intermediate skill level) of a foreign language and some significant evidence of breadth through courses beyond those required for the major or by the student's college. Students in the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences are strongly encouraged to take courses in each of the following fields: mathematics, biological sciences, and physical sciences. Likewise, students in the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences must have breadth beyond their own college demonstrated by taking courses in both social sciences and humanities areas. A few students with exceptionally good records may be elected during their junior year.

•  The Society of Sigma Xi, founded in 1886, is an international honorary organization rewarding excellence in research and encouraging companionship and cooperation among scientists in all fields. Nominations to membership are made by members of the local chapter in accordance with criteria established by the international organization. These criteria relate to the candidates' potential and demonstrated capacity for scientific research.

  Each year the UCR chapter sponsors one seminar speaker of scientific interest to both the university and local community. The Sigma Xi chapter recognizes the need to encourage science teachers in public schools and young scientists at the elementary, high school, undergraduate, and graduate levels in all scientific areas. The latter is accomplished through national fellowships to deserving young scientists engaged in research and, at the local level, by recognition of their accomplishments.

UNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENT

•  Alumni and Constituent Relations provides administrative liaison and support for the UCR Alumni Association. Established in 1955, the association is a separately incorporated nonprofit organization that represents the interest of UCR's nearly 50,000 graduates on important campus issues and keeps them in touch with their alma mater. The office also plays an active and supportive role with UCR students and their parents through its work with the Student Alumni Association and the Parents Association.
•  The Development Office actively encourages private financial support for the campus from individuals, corporations, and foundations. Within the office are specialists in planned, major, and annual giving, and corporate and foundation relations. The office also coordinates all efforts to support the activities of the UC Riverside Foundation.
•  Event Management and Protocol makes arrangements for public ceremonies and special programs such as commencement, the Chancellor's Associates Gala, the Press-Enterprise Scholars' Banquet, Bourns Science and Engineering Day, and various special events hosted by the chancellor.
•  Government and Community Relations is responsible for outreach to local, state, and federal leadership. The office also establishes and maintains a liaison with area and regional business and industry leaders. Additionally, it coordinates the activities of university-affiliated groups and other support groups including the Affiliates and the Citizens University Committee. The office also coordinates the activities of the University/Eastside Community Collaborative (UECC). UECC/Americorps is a community service program that offers UCR students and residents of the city of Riverside an opportunity to serve the community through tutorial, community building, and educational events.
•  University Relations has primary responsibility for relations with print and broadcast news media. The office also produces a variety of publications including a fact sheet, a campus map, the Fiat Lux magazine, and the Campus Guide and Telephone Directory. The University Relations office is also responsible for the top level of UCR's Web site, including the online events calendar (http://events.ucr.edu) and the online listing of campus news (http://www.ucr.edu/news). The Creative Design Services unit coordinates the production of university publications for campus departments and provides professional design and production services.
•  Finance and Administration provides resource management, strategic planning, and administrative support to the programmatic activities of the University Advancement division. The office also coordinates and manages the financial and investment activities of the UC Riverside Foundation, along with providing gift administration and information systems support for all private support activity of the UCR campus.

THE OFFICE OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND REAL ESTATE SERVICES

Economic Development and Real Estate Services is responsible for developing private/public partnerships to expand UCR's academic and research opportunities. The office is also responsible for coordinating redevelopment, economic improvement, and real estate initiatives on or near the university to provide opportunities for the campus community. The focus is on developing relationships that create intellectual partnerships with local industries, faculty, and students.

These partnerships include the development of intellectual linkages with local technology-based companies, resulting in faster growth, a stronger economy, and internships and job opportunities for students. As part of its regional technology strategy, the office is currently developing the University Research Park (http://researchpark.ucr.edu). Other initiatives include Riverside Community Online (http://www.rcol.org) and a regional online technology job/internship site (http://www.ietechjobs.com).

Other partnerships include redevelopment projects to enhance the quality of life around the campus. One such initiative is University Village, a partnership between UCR, the city of Riverside, and a private developer, Southland Land Corporation (http://www.uvriverside.com).

Real estate support includes sales, leases, licenses, easements, and other transactions for the campus and the UC Riverside Foundation. Initiatives have included third-party housing projects such as Stonehaven and International Village.

The office is also responsible for coordinating the University Mortgage Origination Program (MOP) and the campus supplemental home loan program. MOP provides home loans for qualified faculty, and the campus program lets qualified faculty borrow up to 95 percent loan-to-value.

CAMPUS TOURS

Special Events and Tours
(909) 787-5045; tourUCR@pop.ucr.edu
http://www.tour.ucr.edu

Anyone can take advantage of a campus tour: prospective students, new faculty members, or visitors to the area. Walking tours are offered Monday through Friday and selected Saturdays. Arrangements for large group tours are also available by reservation.