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2 unusual facts about University of California, Riverside


Cosmopterix gomezpompai

The species is dedicated to Dr. Arturo Gómez-Pompa, University of California, Riverside, United States, who is a member of the International Advisory Board of the Instituto National de Biodiversidad (INBio), Santo Domingo de Heredia, Costa Rica.

UC Riverside Highlanders

The UC Riverside Highlanders (also California–Riverside and UCR) represent the University of California, Riverside in Riverside, California in intercollegiate athletics.


2006 California Golden Bears football team

The 2006 California Golden Bears football team represented the University of California, Berkeley in the college football 2006–2007 season.

26250 Shaneludwig

It is named after Shane Ludwig, an American educator at Woodcrest Christian High School in Riverside, California.

A. King Dickson

The three wins were against the University of the Pacific, Santa Clara College, and the San Jose Normal School; the two losses were versus Berkeley and Stanford (1st teams?).

Acanthognathus poinari

The holotype amber specimen, number H-10-135, is currently preserved in the amber collections of noted amber researcher George Poinar, Jr., which at the time of description were housed in the University of California, Berkeley.

Acharei Mot

Professor Jacob Milgrom, formerly of the University of California, Berkeley, taught that the evidence of the ethical impulse in the sacrificial system attained its zenith in Yom Kippur.

Aidan Southall

Aside from teaching at Makarere University, Southall also taught at several other schools including the University of East Africa, the University of California, Syracuse University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Arthur Kornberg

Thomas discovered DNA polymerase II and III in 1970 and is now a professor at the University of California, San Francisco.

Babak Larian

Dr. Larian did his medical education at the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, University of California.

Benedikt Löwe

Löwe received his BA in mathematics and philosophy at the University of Hamburg and continued his studies at the University of Tübingen, the University of Berlin and Berkeley.

Brian Druker

Dr. Druker earned both his BS in chemistry and MD from the University of California, San Diego.

Cadence Spalding

Cadence Spalding was born Jennifer Lynn Spalding in San Francisco, California to a father that read law at the University of California, Berkeley and a mother that had been a model.

Castle Koon

The Koon shot of Operation Castle was a test of a University of California Radiation Laboratory designed thermonuclear device.

Charles Roland Berry

He studied music history and music composition at the University of California with and Peter Racine Fricker.

Chicago Club

G. William Domhoff, professor of sociology at the University of California, ran a network analysis study on the membership of think tanks, policy-planning groups, social clubs, trade associations, and opinion-shaping groups across the country for a research project he was doing on San Francisco's Bohemian Club.

Davis Campus Cooperatives

Davis Campus Co-ops (DCC) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide low-cost cooperative housing for students attending University of California, Davis.

Dorothy Buffum Chandler

Chandler served as a regent of the University of California from 1954 to 1968, during its period of most rapid growth, when the system grew from five to nine campuses.

Emory Elliott

He was appointed to many academic societies including the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, Guggenheim, the National Humanities Center, and the Institute for the Humanities at the University of California, Irvine.

Ernest Addison Moody

He served as professor of philosophy at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he also served as department chair, and Columbia University.

Francis K. Shattuck

Shattuck was instrumental in getting the Central Pacific Railroad to construct a branch line into Berkeley in 1876 connecting the community and University of California with the main line and the railroad's ferry to San Francisco.

Frisco 1352

After its removal from Swope Park, Smoky Hill Railway and Historical Society kept the 1352 in an industrial park in Riverside, Missouri, where it suffered flooding on at least one occasion.

Garniss Curtis

Garniss H. Curtis, (born May 27, 1919 ~ died December 19, 2012) was a professor emeritus of geology at the University of California, Berkeley, geochronologist, volcanologist, geophysicist, and founder of the Berkeley Geochronology Center.

Gemini Somatics

Gemini Somatics is a biotechnology company located in Riverside, Oregon, working primarily in the field of synthetic somatology, which is an emerging science developed by Dr Edward Darmos.

Geoffrey Chang

Geoffrey Chang is a professor at the University of California, San Diego's Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine.

Gerard C. Bond

He worked at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York as Head of the Deep-Sea Sample Repository, after teaching briefly at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts and the University of California, Davis.

Glaciers of Bhutan

The study, conducted by the Universities of California and Potsdam and published in the journal Nature Geoscience, was based on 286 glaciers along the Himalaya and Hindu Kush from Bhutan to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

Green Party of Minnesota

Ward 2 is considered one of the most diverse areas of Minneapolis, representing the University of Minnesota Minneapolis Campus and the Cedar-Riverside and Seward neighborhoods.

Gregory Minor

A native of Fresno, California, Minor received an electrical engineering degree from the University of California in 1960.

Huntington Park

Mount Rubidoux, a city park in Riverside, California, formerly known as Huntington Park

Kelham Island Quarter

The apartments of the development enjoy riverside views and occupy buildings named Clifton, Millau, and Rialto after the famous bridges.

Kerri Strug

Shortly after her feat, Strug participated in the Ice Capades and Disney's World On Ice, then announced her retirement and enrolled in UCLA where she was a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority.

Kirk Demorest

After studying cinema at University of California, Santa Barbara, he transferred to Art Center College of Design, Pasadena where he studied film alongside the likes of Tarsem Singh, Michael Bay, and Roger Avary.

M. C. Bradbrook

She held visiting professorships at numerous universities, including Santa Cruz, Tokyo, and Rhodes, South Africa, and received honorary degrees from many more.

Malheur River

At Riverside in eastern Malheur County it receives the South Fork Malheur River from the south, then turns sharply back northward to Juntura, where it receives the North Fork Malheur River form the north.

Mario Radovan

He was a visiting scholar at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal in the year 1985/86; he was awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholarship for academic year 1997/98, which he spent at the University of California at Berkeley.

Morris Schinasi

His family mansion built in 1907 at West 107th Street & 351 Riverside in Manhattan, New York City and called the Schinasi House today, is designated a New York City Landmark and listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Mountain Vista Governor's School

Top acceptances for the Class of 2011 have included Yale University, Johns Hopkins University, Washington University in St. Louis, Vanderbilt University, University of California, Berkeley, Tufts University, and Purdue University.

Naser Qureshi

He did his PhD in Physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara (Thesis: Therahertz dynamics in semiconductor heterostructures); A.B. in Physics from Princeton University (Thesis: High-Tc superconductivity); and a post-doctorate in Electrical Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz (Ultrafast magnetism).

Newham parks and open spaces

The Thames Barrier Park 2005 riverside park, developed following an international competition won by a team led by the acclaimed French landscape architect, Alain Provost, best known for his work at the Parc Citroen in Paris.

Nice Work

Morris Zapp makes a cameo appearance in the last part of Nice Work, to add a plot twist where he tries to arrange for Robyn to have a job interview at his American university, Euphoric State (a fictionalized UC Berkeley), in order to stop his ex-wife from being a candidate for an open faculty position.

Orrin Keepnews

Their most significant early move came in 1955, when they were made aware of the availability of Thelonious Monk, who was able to terminate his contract with Prestige Records and became Riverside's first major artist.

Proventricular Dilatation Disease

In July 2008, a team of researchers at the University of California, San Francisco was able to identify the virus that may cause PDD, which they have named Avian Bornavirus (ABV).

Rogue Artists Ensemble

Rogue Artists Ensemble was founded in 2001 by students at the University of California, Irvine.

Rosemary Clooney Museum

The Rosemary Clooney Museum is located in a historic 1835 house, located on Riverside Drive, in Augusta, Kentucky.

Ruth Cardoso

As professor and researcher Cardoso taught at the Latin American College of Social Sciences (Flacso/Unesco), University of Chile (Santiago), Maison des Sciences de L'Homme (Paris), University of California, Berkeley, and Columbia University (New York).

Singapore Media Academy

The campus is currently situated at Clarke Quay, Riverside Point, to provide training at subsidised rates for aspiring talents and working professionals seeking to embark on a career in the media industry.

Soil solarization

In 1977, American scientists from the University of California at Davis reported the control of Verticillium in a cotton field, based on studies started in 1976, thus denoting, for the first time, the possible wide applicability of this method.

Stan Tatkin

Additionally, Dr. Tatkin trained in the Adult Attachment Interview through Mary Main and Erik Hesse’s program out of University of California, Berkeley and studied personally with Allan N. Schore, Ph.D.

The Rhodopi International Theater Collective

It was founded by Karapetkov, Stein, RDT Artistic Director Krustyo Krustev, and American dramaturg Benjamin Nadler, with the partnership of the RDT, the Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA) in Sofia, The HyperMedia Studio at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Zagreb's Academy of Dramatic Art.

Trapper John, M.D.

Other characters included young nurse Gloria "Ripples" Brancusi (Christopher Norris) who later adopted a sickly, homeless girl, Andrea; Stanley Riverside II (Charles Siebert), a pompous, but nonetheless capable doctor (whose father was the head of the hospital board of directors) who later married a dentist named E.J. (Marcia Rodd); and Justin "Jackpot" Jackson (Brian Stokes Mitchell), a young doctor always interested in wagers.

University of California Riverside 1985 laboratory raid

Veterinarian ophthalmologist Ned Buyukmihci of the University of California, Davis, and founder of Veterinarians for Animal Rights, said after he examined Britches that the sutures used were too large, the monkey's eye pads were dirty, and that, in his view, there was no justification for what he called a sloppy, painful experiment.


see also

AGSM

A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management, a division of the School of Business Administration at the University of California, Riverside, United States

John Fischer

John Martin Fischer, professor of philosophy at the University of California, Riverside

Ravitch

Norman Ravitch, a professor emeritus of history at University of California, Riverside