University of California, Irvine#Machine Learning Repository

The University of California, Irvine (with San Diego and Santa Cruz) was one of three new University of California campuses established in the 1960s under the California Master Plan for Higher Education.{{cite conference| last=Olin| first=Spencer C.| year=2005| title=Designing UC Irvine| book-title=Designing UCI| editor=Jackie M. Dooley | pages=3–12| publisher=The UC Irvine Libraries| location=Irvine, CA}} During the 1950s, the University of California saw the need for the new campuses to handle the expected increase in enrollment from the post-war baby boom. One of the new campuses was to be in the Los Angeles area; the location selected was Irvine Ranch, an area of agricultural land bisecting Orange County from north to south. This site was chosen to accommodate the county's growing population, complement the growth of nearby UCLA and UC Riverside, and allow for the construction of a master planned community in the surrounding area.{{cite web | title=Anteater Chronicles: Site Selection | year=2006 | publisher=University of California, Irvine Library | url=http://www.lib.uci.edu/ucihistory/index.php?page=early_years&function=selection |archive-url=https://archive.today/20071029025430/http://www.lib.uci.edu/ucihistory/index.php?page=early_years&function=selection |archive-date=October 29, 2007 }}

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File:LyndonBJohnsonUCIrvineGroundbreaking1964.jpg at the university's groundbreaking ceremony in June 1964]]

On June 20, 1964, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson dedicated UC Irvine before a crowd of 15,000 people, and on October 4, 1965, the campus began operations with 1,589 students, 241 staff members, 119 faculty, and 43 teaching assistants.{{cite web | title=Anteater Chronicles: Site Dedication | year=2006 | publisher=University of California, Irvine Library | url=http://www.lib.uci.edu/ucihistory/index.php?page=early_years&function=dedication | access-date=2006-09-02 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071029025425/http://www.lib.uci.edu/ucihistory/index.php?page=early_years&function=dedication | archive-date=2007-10-29 }}{{cite web | title=Anteater Chronicles: First Day of Classes | year=2006 | publisher=University of California, Irvine Library | url=http://www.lib.uci.edu/ucihistory/index.php?page=early_years&function=firstday | access-date=2006-09-02 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071029015939/http://www.lib.uci.edu/ucihistory/index.php?page=early_years&function=firstday | archive-date=2007-10-29 }} However, many of UCI's buildings were still under construction and landscaping was still in progress, with the campus only at 75% completion.{{cite web | title=Anteater Chronicles: Maps | year=2014 | publisher=University of California, Irvine Library|url=http://www.lib.uci.edu/ucihistory/index.php?page=maps |archive-url=https://archive.today/20060518063620/http://www.lib.uci.edu/ucihistory/index.php?page=maps |archive-date=May 18, 2006 }} By June 25, 1966, UCI held its first Commencement with fourteen students, which conferred ten Bachelor of Arts degrees, three Master of Arts degrees, and one Doctor of Philosophy degree.{{cite web | title=Anteater Chronicles: First Graduating Class | year=2014 | publisher=University of California, Irvine Library | url=http://www.lib.uci.edu/ucihistory/index.php?page=early_years&function=firstgrad |archive-date=October 29, 2007 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20071029015944/http://www.lib.uci.edu/ucihistory/index.php?page=early_years&function=firstgrad }}

Unlike most other University of California campuses, UCI was not named for the city it was built in; at the time of the university's founding (1965), the current city of Irvine (incorporated in 1971) did not exist. The name "Irvine" is a reference to James Irvine, a landowner who administered the {{convert|94000|acre|ha|adj=on}} Irvine Ranch. In 1960, The Irvine Company sold {{convert|1000|acre|ha}} of the Irvine Ranch to the University of California for one dollar, since company policy prohibited the donation of property to a public entity. On campus, UC Irvine's first Chancellor, Daniel G. Aldrich selected a wide variety of Mediterranean-climate flora and fauna, feeling that it served an "aesthetic, environmental, and educational [purpose]."{{cite web | title=Anteater Chronicles: Landscaping | year=2014 | publisher=University of California, Irvine Library | url=http://www.lib.uci.edu/ucihistory/index.php?page=architecture&function=landscaping |archive-url=https://archive.today/20070527154616/http://www.lib.uci.edu/ucihistory/index.php?page=architecture&function=landscaping |archive-date=May 27, 2007 }} To plan the remainder of the ranch, the university hired William Pereira and Associates. Pereira intended for the UC Irvine campus to complement the neighboring community, and it became clear that the original {{convert|1000|acre|ha}} grant would not suffice. In 1964, the university purchased an additional {{convert|510|acre|ha}} in 1964 for housing and commercial developments.

Much of the land that was not purchased by UCI (which is now occupied by the cities of Irvine, Tustin, and Newport Beach) remains held by The Irvine Company, but the completion of the university rapidly drove the development of Orange County. The City of Irvine became incorporated and established in 1971 and 1975, respectively. UCI remains the second-largest employer in Orange County, with an annual economic impact of $5 billion.{{Cite web|url=http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-obama-challenges-uc-irvine-graduates-to-join-climatechange-fight-20140614-story.html|title=Barack Obama challenges UC Irvine to join climate-change fight|last=Sahagan|first=Louis|date=June 14, 2014|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=July 13, 2016}}{{cite web|url=https://communications.uci.edu/documents/pdf/UCI_15_Fact_Sheet.pdf|title=UCI: Facts & Figures|year=2015|publisher=University of California, Irvine|access-date=2016-07-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161011091537/https://communications.uci.edu/documents/pdf/UCI_15_Fact_Sheet.pdf|archive-date=2016-10-11}}

Aldrich developed the campus's first academic plan around a College of Letters and Science, a Graduate School of Administration, and a School of Engineering.{{cite book|last1=Stadtman|first1=Verne A.|title=The University of California, 1868–1968|url=https://archive.org/details/universityofcali00stad|url-access=registration|date=1970|publisher=McGraw-Hill|location=New York|page=[https://archive.org/details/universityofcali00stad/page/419 419]}} The "principal author" of the plan was Ivan Hinderaker, who served under Aldrich as UCI's vice-chancellor for academic affairs before departing to become the second chancellor of UC Riverside. The UCI College of Letters and Science was to be divided into five divisions which together would initially offer about a dozen majors: Biological Sciences, Fine Arts, Humanities, Physical Sciences, and Social Sciences. Hinderaker came up with the idea "to appoint deans with strong authority for each of the divisions and to give them as much freedom as possible in determining the internal organization of their divisions". In 1967, the UCI Academic Senate voted to redesignate the divisions as "schools", with all their deans reporting directly to the vice chancellor for academic affairs. This is why schools became the dominant academic unit at UCI, in contrast to the relatively large colleges at the older UC campuses.

In 1967, the California College of Medicine (originally a school of osteopathy founded in 1896 and the oldest continuously operating medical college in the Southwest) became part of UC Irvine.{{cite web|url=http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt5p3026p3/|title=Guide to the California College of Medicine Records|access-date=September 19, 2014}}{{cite web|url=http://www.som.uci.edu/historicalTimeline.asp|title=UC Irvine School of Medicine Historical Timeline|access-date=September 19, 2014|archive-date=February 13, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180213124958/http://www.som.uci.edu/historicalTimeline.asp}} In 1976, plans to establish an on-campus hospital were set aside, with the university instead purchasing the Orange County Medical Center (renamed the UC Irvine Medical Center) around 12 miles from UC Irvine, in the City of Orange.

On November 30, 2007, the Office of Civil Rights of the United States Department of Education issued a report finding insufficient evidence in support of allegations that Jewish students at UCI were harassed and subjected to a hostile environment based on their religious beliefs. The agency ultimately found that none of the incidents leading to the allegations qualified as "sufficiently severe, pervasive or persistent as to interfere with or limit the ability of an individual to participate in from the services, activities or privileges" provided by UCI, and that university officials had acted appropriately in response to each incident. In December 2007, UCI Administration was cleared of anti-semitism complaints by the US Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights.{{cite web|url=http://www.ocregister.com/newsimages/news/2007/12/OCR_Report_120507-Z05145157-0001.pdf|title=OCR Report|date=November 30, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080216022546/https://www.ocregister.com/newsimages/news/2007/12/OCR_Report_120507-Z05145157-0001.pdf|archive-date=February 16, 2008|access-date=December 20, 2007}}{{cite news|url=http://www.ocregister.com/news/students-jewish-campus-1939795-officials-report|title=Civil rights investigation clears UCI of anti-Semitism charges|last=Fisher|first=Marla Jo|date=December 11, 2007|access-date=December 20, 2007|newspaper=Orange County Register|archive-date=December 20, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071220021707/http://www.ocregister.com/news/students-jewish-campus-1939795-officials-report}} Following a speech by Chancellor Drake at the national Hillel meeting in Washington, D.C. in March 2008, Anteaters for Israel, along with three other Jewish organizations, issued a press release defending Drake and claiming that the anti-Semitic activity was "exaggerated".{{cite news|url=http://www.ocregister.com/articles/jewish-uci-student-2007512-students-israel|title=News: Jewish students say UC Irvine is safe|last=Fisher|first=Marla Jo|date=March 28, 2008|access-date=April 4, 2008|newspaper=Orange County Register|archive-date=April 4, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080404185639/http://www.ocregister.com/articles/jewish-uci-student-2007512-students-israel}}

{{main|Irvine 11 controversy}}In 2010, eleven students from the Muslim Student Union disrupted a speech by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren. The students and the student's union involved were first disciplined by UCI and then had criminal charges brought against them. They were convicted of misdemeanor charges and sentenced to three years probation, community service, and fines. This led to a debate on whether the students' protest was free speech and whether filing criminal charges against them was fair after UCI had already disciplined them.{{cite web | last=Chemerinsky | first=Erwin | title=UC Irvine's free speech debate | website=Los Angeles Times | date=18 February 2010 | url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-feb-18-la-oe-chemerinsky18-2010feb18-story.html | access-date=20 November 2020}}{{cite web | last=Wahid | first=Abdul | title=The Irvine 11 and Criminalisation of "Free Speech" | website=Islamic Human Rights Commission | date=September 24, 2011 | url=https://www.ihrc.org.uk/news/comment/9857-the-irvine-11-and-criminalising-criticism-of-israel-americas-illusion-of-free-speech-shattered/ | access-date=November 21, 2020}} Critics argued that the students were victims of selective prosecution and that they were targeted because they were Muslims and supported the Palestinians.{{cite web | last=Wiener | first=Jon | title=Irvine Muslim Students Convicted of Shouting at Israeli Ambassador | website=The Nation | date=September 24, 2011 | url=https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/irvine-muslim-students-convicted-shouting-israeli-ambassador/ | access-date=November 20, 2020}}{{cite web

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In early July 2018, UC Irvine removed benefactor Francisco J. Ayala's name from its biology school and central science library after an internal investigation by the university's Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity substantiated a number of sexual harassment claims. Chancellor Gillman also authorized the removal of the Ayala name from graduate fellowships, scholar programs, and endowed chairs. Ayala resigned July 1, 2018 and was ordered to abstain from future university activities, following the university's consultative procedures that include a faculty review committee. The results from the investigation were compiled in a 97-page report, which included testimony from victims of Ayala.{{Cite news|url=https://news.uci.edu/2018/06/28/uci-proposes-new-name-for-school-of-biological-sciences-science-library-after-internal-investigation-substantiates-sexual-harassment-claims-against-signature-donor/|title=UCI proposes new name for School of Biological Sciences, science library after internal investigation substantiates sexual harassment claims against signature donor|last=Harriman |first=Pat |date=2018-06-28|work=UCI News|access-date=2018-06-28}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/07/02/uc-irvine-says-it-will-remove-former-professors-name-institutions-he-helped-build|title=Professor, Donor, Harasser |last=Flaherty |first=Colleen |date=2018-07-02|work=Inside Higher Education|access-date=2018-07-02}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/07/02/uc-irvine-says-it-will-remove-former-professors-name-institutions-he-helped-build|title=Acclaimed UC Irvine geneticist who gave millions to the campus resigns due to sexual harassment |last= Watanabe |first=Teresa |date=2018-06-28|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=2018-06-28}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.science.org/content/article/prominent-geneticist-out-uc-irvine-after-harassment-finding|title=Prominent geneticist out at UC Irvine after harassment finding |last=Wadman |first=Meredith |date=2018-06-29|work=Science Magazine|access-date=2018-06-29}}{{Cite news|url=https://chancellor.uci.edu/engagement/campus-communications/2018/180628-franciscojayala-message.php|title=Important Message Regarding Francisco J. Ayala|last=Gillman|first=Howard|date=2018-06-28|work=Office of the Chancellor|access-date=2018-06-28|archive-date=2019-04-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402214244/https://chancellor.uci.edu/engagement/campus-communications/2018/180628-franciscojayala-message.php}}

{{Main|Campus of the University of California, Irvine}}

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The layout of the core campus resembles a rough circle with its center being Aldrich Park (initially known as Campus Park), lined up by the Ring Mall and buildings surrounding the road. To further emphasize the layout, academic units are positioned relative to the center, wherein undergraduate schools are closer to the center than the graduate schools.{{cite web|title=Anteater Trivia |publisher=UCI Office of Admissions and Relations with Students |url=http://www.admissions.uci.edu/anteater_trivia.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20011230083331/http://www.admissions.uci.edu/anteater_trivia.html |archive-date=2001-12-30 }}

As of 2010, Aldrich Park is planted with over 11,120 trees (there are over 24,000 trees on the entire campus), including 33 species of eucalyptus. At the time, it was one of 74 campuses nationwide to earn the designation of "Tree Campus USA" from the Arbor Day Foundation.{{Cite web |title=UCI designated Tree Campus USA – UC Irvine News |url=https://news.uci.edu/2010/11/17/uci-designated-tree-campus-usa/ |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=news.uci.edu |language=en-US}} Two ceremonial trees were planted in 1990, one for Arbor Day and the second for former chancellor Daniel Aldrich who had died that year. On the first anniversary of the September 11th tragedies, the chancellor planted a bay laurel tree in remembrance of the heroes and victims of the events of September 11, 2001. The tree itself was a gift from the UCI Staff Assembly. Aldrich Park is the site for "Wayzgoose", a medieval student festival held each year in conjunction with the "Celebrate UCI" open house. It also hosts many extracurricular activities.

Ring Mall is the main pedestrian road used by students and faculty to travel around the core campus. The road measures up to a perfect mile and completely encircles Aldrich Park.{{cite web | url = http://www.newstudents.uci.edu/?p=12 | title= New Students: Definitions | publisher = University of California Irvine}} Most schools and libraries orbit this road with each of these schools having their own central plaza which also connects to the park.

Other areas of the university outside of the core campus such as the School of Arts are connected by four pedestrian bridges. Beyond the core campus and the bridges, the layout of the campus is more suburban.

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{{see also|UCI Medical Center|University of California, Irvine, Arboretum|University of California Natural Reserve System}}

Irvine, California consistently ranks as the safest city in the United States.{{cite news|last1=Warner|first1=Anmargaret|title=Why Irvine, California Consistently Ranks As The Safest City In America|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/irvine-california-is-americas-safest-city-2013-7|access-date=7 March 2015|work=Business Insider|date=July 30, 2013}} UCI is close to the beaches, mountains, and attractions of Southern California. Disneyland is approximately 20 minutes away by car. While the university is located in Irvine, the campus is directly bounded by the city of Newport Beach and the community of Newport Coast. The western side of the campus borders the San Diego Creek and the San Joaquin Freshwater Marsh Reserve, through which Campus Drive connects UCI to the 405 freeway. The northern and eastern sides of UCI are adjacent to Irvine proper; the eastern side of the campus is delineated by Bonita Canyon Road, which turns into Culver Drive at its northern terminus. California State Route 73 marks UCI's southern boundary and separates the campus from Newport Beach.

The "North Campus" houses the Facilities Management Department, the Faculty Research Facility, Central Receiving, Fleet Services, the Air Pollution Health Effects Laboratory, and the 1.2 million square foot Irvine Campus Medical Complex (ICMC). It is located next to the UCI Arboretum, which was closed until further notice due to the COVID-19 pandemic with plans to relocate to the main campus.{{Cite web |title=UCI School of Biological Sciences – Arboretum – Arboretum |url=https://arboretum.bio.uci.edu/ |access-date=2025-04-12 |language=en-US}} Both the North Campus and the arboretum are located about {{convert|1|mi|km|0}} from the main campus. In 2024, construction of the Joe C. Wen & Family UCI Health Center for Advanced Care and the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center was completed. In late 2025, an all-electric 144-bed acute care hospital will follow suit, making this the nation’s first medical center to be powered by an all-electric central utilities plant.{{Cite web |title=OC Register features all-electric UCI Health — Irvine {{!}} UCI Health {{!}} Orange County, CA |url=https://www.ucihealth.org/about-us/news/2023/04/uci-health-irvine-clean-energy |access-date=2025-04-16 |website=www.ucihealth.org}}

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William Pereira's original street layout for the region surrounding the university had a wingnut-shaped loop road as the main thoroughfare, which twice crossed the campus. However, the Irvine Company's development plans expanded before it could be completed, and portions of California, Carlson, Harvard and Turtle Rock roads today constitute segments of what would have been the Loop Road.

Despite the suburban environment, a variety of wildlife inhabits the university's central park, open fields, and wetlands. The university is home to cougar, hawks, golden eagles, great blue herons, squirrels, opossums, peregrine falcons, rabbits, raccoons, owls, skunks, weasels, bats, and coyotes. The UCI Arboretum hosts a collection of plants from California and Mediterranean climates around the world. The rabbits in particular can be seen across campus in high numbers, especially during hours of low student traffic.

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The first buildings were designed by a team of architects led by William Pereira and including A. Quincy Jones and William Blurock. The initial landscaping, including Aldrich Park, was designed by an association of three firms, including that of the noted urban-landscaping innovator Robert Herrick Carter. Aldrich Park was designed under the direction of landscape architect Gene Uematsu, and was modeled after Frederick Law Olmsted's designs for New York City's Central Park. The campus opened in 1965 with the inner circle and park only half-completed. There were only nine buildings and a dirt road connecting the main campus to the housing units. Only three of the six "spokes" that radiate from the central park were built, with only two buildings each. Pereira was retained by the university to maintain a continuity of style among the buildings constructed in the inner ring around the park, the last of which was completed in 1974. These buildings were designed with the appearance of being displayed on "pedestals" (containing the first floor and basement levels) that elevated them above the rolling terrain, with distinctive white railings evoking the deck of an ocean liner. They additionally feature an elevated second pedestrian level above ground, originally intended as a "skyway" to connect all the buildings in each of the six "spokes".{{cite web|url=http://www.lib.uci.edu/ucihistory/index.php?page=architecture&function=pereira|title=William Pereira, Architect|access-date=September 19, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130109194724/http://www.lib.uci.edu/ucihistory/index.php?page=architecture&function=pereira|archive-date=January 9, 2013}}

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Construction on the campus all but ceased after the Administration building, Aldrich Hall, was completed in 1974, and then resumed in the late 1980s, beginning a massive building boom that continues today. This second building boom continued the futuristic trend, but emphasized a much more colorful, postmodern approach that somewhat contradicted the earthy, organic designs of the early buildings. New campus architect David J. Neuman, succeeding Pereira in 1977,{{Cite web |last=Hess |first=Alan |date=2014-06-30 |title=Erasing Pereira |url=https://orangecoast.com/news/erasing-pereira |access-date=2025-04-30 |website=Orange Coast Mag |language=en}} brought in architects such as Frank Gehry, Robert Venturi, Eric Owen Moss, James Stirling and Arthur Erickson to bring the campus more up to date. The recession in the early 1990s along with internal politics led to a change in direction, due to the reduced capital budget, and changing attitudes towards architectural innovation at the university. This, in turn, led to a "contextualist" approach beginning in the late 1990s combining stylistic elements of the first two phases in an attempt to provide an architectural "middle ground" between the two vastly different styles.

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In the mid-2000s, the campus underwent a historic $1.1 billion dollar expansion to keep pace with projected enrollment, adding another 2.7 million square feet of instructional and research facilities and over 20 buildings.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2006-07-17 |title=UCI undergoing historic expansion |url=https://www.ocregister.com/2006/07/17/uci-undergoing-historic-expansion/ |access-date=2025-04-25 |website=Orange County Register |language=en-US}} As a consequence, Frank Gehry's Information and Computer Science/Engineering Research Facility (ICS/ERF) building, which won a Progressive Architecture Award in 1985 and had brought UCI to prominence in architectural circles, was demolished in 2007{{Cite web |last=Fisher |first=Thomas |date=2011-03-02 |title=Here Today, Gone Tomorrow |url=https://www.architectmagazine.com/design/here-today-gone-tomorrow_o |access-date=2025-04-25 |website=Architect |language=en}} to make way for the new six-story, 180,000 square foot Engineering Hall. It sparked outcry from architecture critics and art historians alike, while campus architect and associate vice chancellor Rebekah Gladson maintained that the ICS/ERF building was an "interim fix" during the building boom of the 1980s. The relatively inexpensive cost of construction, at $2 million in 1986, was merely adequate at a time when state funding was insufficient for larger, more permanent facilities. As a result, the twenty years that had passed since construction had led to problems with exterior waterproofing and structural deterioration. A target enrollment of about 30,000 students, which called for higher density accommodations on campus were other motivators for the razing.{{Cite web |last=Vo |first=Yolanda |date=2005-09-26 |title=Planned Demolition of Gehry Building Sparks Controversy |url=https://newuniversity.org/2005/09/26/planned_demolition_of_gehry59/ |access-date=2025-05-07 |website=New University |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Register |first= |date=2007-01-23 |title=Gehry building at UCI razed |url=https://www.ocregister.com/2007/01/23/gehry-building-at-uci-razed/ |access-date=2025-04-25 |website=Orange County Register |language=en-US}} Two buildings designed by Frank Gehry in the Henry Samueli School of Engineering still remain today, the McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium and the Rockwell Engineering Center, completed in 1990.{{Cite web |title=History of Aerospace Engineering at UCI {{!}} Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine |url=https://engineering.uci.edu/dept/mae/about/history-aerospace-engineering-uci#:~:text=Many%20gifts%20have%20come%20from,the%20renowned%20architect,%20Frank%20Gehry. |access-date=2025-05-07 |website=engineering.uci.edu}}{{Cite journal |last=Gehry |first=Frank Owen |date=1990 |title=Rockwell Engineering Center and McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium |url=https://dome.mit.edu/handle/1721.3/120107 |journal=Architecture, Urban Planning, and Visual Arts |language=en |via=MIT Dome}}

In a later reversal of Pereira's vision, a 2008 earthquake retrofit of Steinhaus Hall saw the removal of Pereira's signature sunshades for a "flat skin of stone and glass", after the precast originals had deteriorated and presented a hazard for those walking below.{{Cite web |last=Hess |first=Alan |date=2014-06-30 |title=Erasing Pereira |url=https://orangecoast.com/news/erasing-pereira |access-date=2025-04-30 |website=Orange Coast Mag |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=UC Irvine Steinhaus Hall Exterior Renovation |url=https://sva-architects.com/projects/uc-irvine-steinhaus-hall-exterior-renovation/ |access-date=2025-04-30 |website=SVA Architects |language=en-US}}

In 2009, the Humanities Gateway building, designed by Curtis W. Fentress, was opened. The curvilinear design marked a return to the sculptural treatment of concrete begun by Pereira. The design sought to encapsulate the multifaceted nature of a humanities education, with a split-persona inspired by Janus, the two-faced god of mythological literature. The side that faces the Humanities Quad and the interior of the campus was intended to maintain formality and harmony with existing campus architecture while the opposing courtyard side contrasts this with an organic, free-flowing design. In addition, it achieved 57 of the 69 benchmark points (minimum 52) required to reach USGBC's LEED Platinum certification, which recognizes new construction that has gone above and beyond in incorporating eco-friendly features in its design and operations.{{Cite web |date=2011-12-28 |title=Humanities Gateway / Fentress Architects |url=https://www.archdaily.com/195031/humanities-getaway-fentress-architects |access-date=2025-04-25 |website=ArchDaily |language=en-US}} This was the first building on campus to receive the distinction.{{Cite web |title=UCI attains its first LEED Platinum rating – UC Irvine News |url=https://news.uci.edu/2011/11/22/uci-attains-its-first-leed-platinum-rating/ |access-date=2025-04-25 |website=news.uci.edu |language=en-US}}

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{{Main|University of California Libraries}}

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In addition to holding a noted critical theory archive and Southeast Asian archive, the Libraries also contain extensive collections in Dance and Performing Arts, Regional History, and more. Additionally, Langson Library hosts an extensive East Asian collection with materials in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

Nearly all departments and schools on campus complement the resources of the UC Irvine Libraries by maintaining their own reading rooms and scholarly meeting rooms. They contain small reference collections and are the choice for more intimate lectures, graduate seminars, and study sessions. There is also the large Gateway Study Center located across from Langson Library, one of the university's original buildings and under the custody of UC Irvine Libraries. Having served formerly as a cafeteria and student center, it is now a dual-use computer lab and study area which is open nearly 24 hours.

The UCI Student Center offers a large number of study areas, auditoriums, and two food courts, and therefore is one of the most popular places to study on campus. UC Irvine also has a number of computer labs that serve as study centers. The School of Humanities maintains the Humanities Instructional Resource Center, a drop-in computer lab specializing in language and digital media. Additionally, UCI maintains five other drop-in labs, four instructional computer labs, and a number of reservation-only SmartClassrooms, some of which are open 24 hours. Other popular study areas include Aldrich Park, the Cross-Cultural Center, the Locus (a study room and computer lab used by the Campuswide Honors Program), and plazas located in every school.

A network of tunnels runs between many of the major buildings on campus and the Central Plant, with the major trunk passage located beneath Ring Mall. Smaller tunnels branch off from this main passage to reach individual buildings, carrying electrical and air-conditioning utilities from the Central Plant. These tunnels have been the subject of much campus lore, the most popular story being that the tunnels were constructed to facilitate the safe evacuation of faculty in the event of a student riot. The main tunnel actually contains an above-ground section, in the form of the interior of an unusually thick pedestrian bridge near the Engineering Tower, in an area where the Ring Mall crosses between two hills. The tunnels are only accessible to maintenance staff, although there are also publicly accessible tunnels which intersect the utility tunnels, such as the one that goes between the main Information & Computer Science building and the Engineering Tower.{{citation needed |date=April 2019}}

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The University of California, Irvine, created the University of California, Washington Center (UCDC) program in 1982. It is a student program of the university, located on Scott Circle in Downtown Washington (

{{Coord|38|54|23.4|N|77|2|14|W|display=inline}}). The center serves as the headquarters of the University of California Office of Federal Governmental Relations and supports UC students interning in the District of Columbia. UC Washington Center is currently led by UC Santa Cruz economist Helen Shapiro.

Like other University of California campuses, UC Irvine operates under a system of shared governance, or a partnership between the Chancellor and his administration and the faculty through the Academic Senate. The Chancellor is the chief campus officer and has authority over the campus budget.{{Cite web|title=Standing Order 100. Officers of the University {{!}} Board of Regents|url=https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/governance/standing-orders/so1006.html|access-date=2021-07-20|website=regents.universityofcalifornia.edu|archive-date=2021-05-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210525021410/https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/governance/standing-orders/so1006.html}} The Academic Senate has authority to determine the conditions for admission and supervise courses and curricula.{{Cite web|title=Standing Order 105. Academic Senate {{!}} Board of Regents|url=https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/governance/standing-orders/so1052.html|access-date=2021-07-20|website=regents.universityofcalifornia.edu}} The Chancellor is nominated by and is responsible to the Regents of the University of California and the UC President.{{Cite web|title=Standing Order 100. Officers of the University {{!}} Board of Regents|url=https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/governance/standing-orders/so1001.html|access-date=2021-07-20|website=regents.universityofcalifornia.edu|archive-date=2019-02-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190225010717/https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/governance/standing-orders/so1001.html}}

After the Chancellor, the second most senior official is the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost,{{cite web | title=UC Irvine: Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost | year=2006 | publisher=University of California, Irvine | url=http://www.evc.uci.edu/ | access-date=2006-09-02 | archive-date=2006-05-09 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060509152151/http://www.evc.uci.edu/ }} the university's chief academic and operating officer. Every school on campus reports to the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost through a Dean, and all other academic and administrative units report to his office through a Vice Chancellor or chief administrator. A partial list of these units includes Campus Recreation, Intercollegiate Athletics, Planning and Budget, Student Affairs, UC Irvine Libraries, UC Irvine Medical Center, and University Advancement.

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UC Irvine's academic units are referred to as schools. As of the 2023–2024 school year, there were fifteen schools and several interdisciplinary programs.{{cite web |title=Academic Units |url=https://uci.edu/academics/ |access-date=July 29, 2024 |work=uci.edu}} The College of Health Sciences was established in 2004,{{cite web | title=UCI College of Health Sciences | year=2006 | publisher=University of California, Irvine | url=http://www.cohs.uci.edu/about_uci1.shtml |archive-date=June 15, 2006 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20060615094235/http://www.cohs.uci.edu/about_uci1.shtml }} but no longer exists as a separate academic unit.{{cite web|url=http://www.cohs.uci.edu/|title=College of Health Sciences – UC Irvine Health – University of California, Irvine|work=uci.edu|access-date=March 7, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150218033254/http://www.cohs.uci.edu/|archive-date=February 18, 2015}} On November 16, 2006, the University of California Regents approved the establishment of the School of Law.{{cite web|title=University of California, Irvine law school approved by UC Regents |year=2006 |publisher=University of California, Irvine |url=http://today.uci.edu/news/release_detail.asp?key=1544 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061225180209/http://www.today.uci.edu/news/release_detail.asp?key=1544 |archive-date=2006-12-25 }} The School of Education was established by the UC Regents in 2012.{{cite web|title=UC Irvine's Education Department Becomes a School|url=http://www.ocregister.com/articles/school-365079-students-uci.html |work=Orange County Register |author=Lisa Liddane |date=August 21, 2013}} In 2016, the university announced that it had received a $40 million donation from Bill Gross' philanthropic foundation to turn its nursing science program into the Sue and Bill Gross School of Nursing. The UC Regents formally approved the establishment of the school in January 2017.{{cite press release |url=https://news.uci.edu/health/stellar-uci-nursing-program-becomes-a-school/ |title=Stellar UCI nursing program becomes a school |work=UCI News |date=January 26, 2017}}{{cite web |url=http://www.ocregister.com/articles/nursing-699540-uci-gross.html |title=UCI nursing will benefit from record $40 million gift |author=Deepa Bharath |date=January 12, 2016|work=The Orange County Register}} In July 2020, the UC Regents approved the establishment of the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.{{cite press release |url=https://news.uci.edu/2020/08/04/uci-to-launch-innovative-school-of-pharmacy-and-pharmaceutical-sciences/ |title=UCI to launch innovative School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences |work=UCI News |date=August 4, 2020}} In July of 2024, UCI received a gift of $50 million to support the transition of the former Program in Public health to the Joe C. Wen School of Population and Public Health, named for the donor and his family.{{Cite web |title=UC Irvine's Public Health Program to transition to School of Population and Public Health |url=https://news.uci.edu/2024/07/18/uc-irvines-public-health-program-to-transition-to-school-of-population-and-public-health/ |access-date=2024-07-30 |website=UCI News |language=en-US}} Supplementary education programs offer accelerated or community education in the form of Summer Session and UC Irvine Extension.{{cite web |url=http://catalogue.uci.edu/informationforadmittedstudents/supplementaryeducationalprograms/|title=Supplementary Educational Programs|work=uci.edu|access-date=March 7, 2015}}

The academic units consist of (with their founding in parentheses):{{cite web |title=Editorial Style Guide {{!}} Strategic Communications {{!}} UCI |url=https://communications.uci.edu/campus-resources/styleguide/index.php |website=communications.uci.edu |publisher=Strategic Communications & Public Affairs |access-date=18 November 2018 }}

• Claire Trevor School of the Arts (1970)
• Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences (1965)
• Paul Merage School of Business (1965)
• School of Education (1967)
• Henry Samueli School of Engineering (1965)
• School of Humanities (1965)
• Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences (2002)
• Interdisciplinary Studies (1992)
• School of Law (2007)
• School of Physical Sciences (1965)
• School of Social Ecology (1970)
• School of Social Sciences (1965)
• School of Medicine (1896)
• Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing (2007)
• School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences (2020)
• Joe C. Wen School of Population and Public Health (2024)

The School of Medicine constitutes the professional schools of health science. The UC Irvine Medical Center is ranked among the nation's top 50 hospitals by U.S. News & World Report for the 12th consecutive year.{{cite web|url=http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-medical-schools/items/04009|title=How Does University of California—Irvine School of Medicine Rank Among America's Best Medical Schools?|access-date=July 21, 2016}} The school has 19 clinical and 6 basic science departments{{cite web|url=http://www.som.uci.edu/departments_programs.html|title=Departments and Programs – School of Medicine – University of California, Irvine|access-date=July 21, 2016|archive-date=April 30, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430172516/http://www.som.uci.edu/departments_programs.html}} with 560 full-time and 1,300 volunteer faculty members involved in teaching, patient care, and medical and basic science research. With an acceptance rate of 3.98% for 6,929 applicants in 2025, it is among the nation's 20 most selective medical schools.{{Cite web |last=Wood |first=Sarah |date=April 9, 2025 |title=20 Med Schools With The Lowest Acceptance Rates |url=https://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/the-short-list-grad-school/articles/medical-schools-with-the-lowest-acceptance-rates |access-date=April 25, 2025 |website=U.S. News & World Report}}

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UCI's many research organizations{{cite web | title=Organized Research Units | url=http://www.research.uci.edu/centers/researchPrograms.cfm?ru_type_cd=ORU | publisher=University of California, Irvine | date=January 3, 2008 | access-date=November 22, 2008 |archive-date=July 5, 2007 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20070705161203/http://www.research.uci.edu/centers/researchPrograms.cfm?ru_type_cd=ORU }} are either chaired by or composed of UCI faculty, frequently draw upon undergraduates and graduates for research assistance, and produce innovations, patents, and scholarly works. Some are housed in a school or department office; others are housed in their own facilities. These are a few of the research organizations at UCI:

• Beckman Laser Institute
• California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2)
• Center for Chemistry at the Space-Time Limit (CaSTL Center)
• Center for Complex Biological Systems
• Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies
• Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
• Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Disease (RCE){{cite web|url=https://www.niaid.nih.gov/labsandresources/resources/rce/Pages/default.aspx|title=Regional Centers of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases|access-date=August 3, 2015}}
• Center for Unconventional Security Affairs
• Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
• Institute of Transportation Studies
• National Fuel Cell Research Center
• The Fleischman Lab
• Reeve-Irvine Research Center
• Center for the Study of Democracy
• Center for Health Policy Research
• W. M. Keck Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry
• Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center
• Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics (IGB)
• Center for Machine Learning and Data Mining (CML)
• University of California Transportation Center (UCTC){{cite web|url=https://www.edumaritime.net/california/university-of-california-at-irvine|title=Institute of Transportation Studies|access-date=September 19, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190321050855/https://www.edumaritime.net/california/university-of-california-at-irvine|archive-date=March 21, 2019}}

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Among universities under 50 years of age, Times Higher Education ranked UCI 4th in the world and 1st in the US for 2012, 5th in the world and 1st in the US for 2013, 7th in the world and 1st in the US in 2014, and 7th in the world and 1st in the US in 2015.{{cite web |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2015/one-hundred-under-fifty#!/page/0/length/25/sort_by/rank_label/sort_order/asc/cols/rank_only |title=THE 100 Under 50 universities 2015 |publisher= Times Higher Education Ltd.|date=2015-06-04 }} 2015 was the final year UCI was eligible for this ranking. In 2025, THE ranked UCI's Psychology program 42nd, their law school 66th, and Computer Science program as 75th globally.{{Cite web |date=2025-02-21 |title=University of California, Irvine |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/university-california-irvine |access-date=2025-04-25 |website=Times Higher Education (THE) |language=en}} Nationally, the university was 35th overall.{{Cite web |date=2024-10-04 |title=World University Rankings |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/latest/world-ranking?page=1#!/length/25/locations/USA/sort_by/rank/sort_order/asc/cols/scores |access-date=2025-04-25 |website=Times Higher Education (THE) |language=en}} In 2024's Academic Ranking of World Universities, UC Irvine was 34th among US universities and ranked globally in the subjects Atmospheric Science (10), Law (14), Education (25), Water Resources (31), and Psychology (32).{{Cite web |title=ShanghaiRanking-Univiersities |url=https://www.shanghairanking.com/institution/university-of-california-irvine |access-date=2025-04-25 |website=www.shanghairanking.com}} The 2024 World University Rankings by CWUR ranked UC Irvine 85th globally out of 20,966 universities and 44th nationally, placing it among the top 0.5% in the world.{{Cite web |title=World University Rankings 2024 {{!}} Global 2000 List {{!}} CWUR |url=https://cwur.org/2024.php |access-date=2025-05-03 |website=cwur.org |language=en}} UCI's graduate philosophy program ranks among the finest worldwide, according to the Philosophical Gourmet Report, with the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science jointly achieving a 28th position in global rankings. The Webometrics Ranking of World Universities for 2024 ranked UCI 31st in the world, using "web indicators as proxies to assess [universities'] global performance comprehensively, considering its activities, outputs, relevance, and impact". The composite score was determined by "visibility" (24th), "transparency" (22nd), and "excellence" (83rd).{{Citation |last=Aguillo |first=Isidro F. |title=Ranking Web of Universities (webometrics.info). January 2025 edition |date=2025-02-12 |url=https://figshare.com/articles/preprint/_b_Ranking_Web_of_Universities_webometrics_info_January_2025_edition_b_/28284617 |access-date=2025-05-03 |publisher=figshare |language=en |doi=10.6084/m9.figshare.28284617.v2}}{{Cite web |title=Webometrics Ranking 2024: Top 100 Universities & How It Works |url=https://www.shiksha.com/studyabroad/webometrics-ranking-of-world-universities-articlepage-159591 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250417161616/https://www.shiksha.com/studyabroad/webometrics-ranking-of-world-universities-articlepage-159591 |archive-date=2025-04-17 |access-date=2025-05-03 |website=www.shiksha.com |language=en-in}}

For 2024, U.S. News & World Report ranked UC Irvine tied for 33rd among national universities in the U.S., tied for 9th among public universities, 9th in "Top Performers on Social Mobility", tied for 45th in "Most Innovative Schools", and tied for 70th in "Best Undergraduate Teaching".{{cite magazine |title=UCI's Graduate School Rankings |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/university-of-california-irvine-110653/overall-rankings |access-date=10 April 2025 |magazine=U.S. News & World Report}}In 2019, Forbes ranked UCI 3rd out of the 300 Best Value Colleges, based on Return on Investment.{{cite web |url=https://www.forbes.com/best-value-colleges/#5a08d2e3245b/ |title=Best Value Colleges 2019: 300 Schools Worth The Investment |website=Forbes |date=April 2019}}In 2017, Kiplinger ranked UCI 26th out of the top 100 best-value public colleges and universities in the nation, and 5th in California.{{cite web | url=https://www.kiplinger.com/tool/college/T014-S001-kiplinger-s-best-values-in-public-colleges/index.php |work=Kiplinger |title=Kiplinger's Best College Values 2017 |date=December 2017}}In 2018, Sierra Magazine ranked UCI 1st in its "Coolest Schools" in America list for campus sustainability and climate change efforts. In 2021, it was ranked 2nd, marking the 12th time in a row it had placed in the top 10.{{cite web|url=https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/cool-schools-2018/cool-schools-2018-full-ranking|title=Cool Schools 2018: Full Ranking|publisher=Sierra Club|date=2018-08-27|access-date=2019-05-06|archive-date=2019-04-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402221239/https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/cool-schools-2018/cool-schools-2018-full-ranking}}{{Cite web |title=UCI is No. 2 in Sierra magazine’s 2021 ‘Cool Schools’ ranking of sustainability leaders – UC Irvine News |url=https://news.uci.edu/2021/09/09/uci-is-no-2-in-sierra-magazines-2021-cool-schools-ranking-of-sustainability-leaders/ |access-date=2025-04-25 |website=news.uci.edu |language=en-US}}In 2024, The Princeton Review ranked UCI 5th among public universities by return on investment (ROI) in its Best Value Colleges list.{{Cite web |title=Top 50 Best Value Colleges (Public Schools) {{!}} The Princeton Review |url=https://www.princetonreview.com/college-rankings?rankings=top-50-best-value-colleges-public-schools |access-date=2025-04-25 |website=www.princetonreview.com}} It also ranked 13th in ROI among public schools for students that do not qualify for financial aid.{{Cite web |title=Top 20 Best Value Colleges w/o Aid (Public Schools) {{!}} The Princeton Review |url=https://www.princetonreview.com/college-rankings?rankings=top-20-best-value-colleges-w-o-aid-public-schools |access-date=2025-04-25 |website=www.princetonreview.com}}

In 2025, Niche, whose ranking methodology combines both student experiential reviews with objective metrics supplied from third-party institutions,{{Cite web |title=About Niche's College Rankings |url=https://www.niche.com/colleges/rankings/methodology/ |access-date=April 25, 2025 |website=Niche}} ranked UCI 55th nationally amongst colleges (including LACs) and 12th amongst public universities. It ranked UCI in the top 40 nationally for Criminal Justice (5), Public Health (13), Film and Photography (20), Performing Arts (20), Kinesiology and Physical Therapy (21), Music (28), Psychology (28), Computer Science (30), Education (32), Physics (33), Math (35), Engineering (38), and Biology (40).{{Cite web |title=2024 University of California - Irvine Rankings |url=https://www.niche.com/colleges/university-of-california-irvine/rankings/ |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20240629040728/https://www.niche.com/colleges/university-of-california-irvine/rankings/ |archive-date=2024-06-29 |access-date=2025-04-25 |website=Niche |language=en-US}}

In addition, many of UCI's graduate programs are ranked in the top 50 of the 2025 U.S. News & World Report rankings: Criminology (2), Organic Chemistry (14), English (21), Chemistry (24), Sociology (20), Computer Science (27), Public Health (27), Physics (35), Psychology (27), Law (38), Statistics (27), Education (18), Biological Sciences (32), Earth Sciences (27), History (42), Engineering (37), Business Part-Time MBA (23), Political Science (41), Mathematics (34), and Economics (41).

UCI faculty are affiliated with the following learned societies.

• American Academy of Arts and Sciences (47 members){{cite web |title=Member Directory |url=https://www.amacad.org/directory?field_affiliation=University%20of%20California%2C%20Irvine&field_class_section=All&field_class_section_1=All&field_deceased=All&sort_bef_combine=field_election_year_DESC&page=1 |access-date=10 April 2025 |website=amacad.org}}
• American Association for the Advancement of Science (154 members)
• American Philosophical Society (11 members){{cite web |title=APS Members' Directory Search |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=&title=University+of+California%2C+Irvine&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |access-date=18 November 2018 |website=search.amphilsoc.org}}
• American Physical Society (30 members)
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute (3 members){{cite web |title=Scientist Search Results |url=https://www.hhmi.org/search/people?f%5B0%5D=academic_institution%3AUniversity+of+California%2C+Irvine |access-date=10 April 2025 |website=HHMI.org}}
• American Psychological Association (20 members)
• National Academy of Medicine (6 members){{Cite web |title=Member Directory Search |url=https://nam.edu/membership/members/directory/?jsf=epro-posts:content-feed&tax=institution:528,1736 |access-date=10 April 2025}}
• National Academy of Engineering (11 members){{cite web |title=Members Directory |url=https://www.nae.edu/MembersSection/MemberDirectory.aspx?qaff=University%20of%20California%2C%20Irvine |access-date=10 April 2025 |website=NAE Website}}
• National Academy of Sciences (34 members){{cite web |title=Member Search |url=http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/ |access-date=10 April 2025 |website=nasonline.org}}
• National Academy of Education (5 members){{cite web |title=Our Members – National Academy of Education |url=https://naeducation.org/our-members/?_member_institution=e38ed0b0bc49e8f4962593e72a0e2935 |access-date=10 April 2025 |website=National Academy of Education}}

Undergraduate

UC Irvine is categorized by U.S. News & World Report as "most selective" for college admissions in the United States.{{cite web |title=University of California—Irvine |work=U.S. News & World Report |access-date=March 8, 2020 |url=http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/university-of-california-irvine-1314}} It was the third-most selective University of California campus for the freshman class entering in the fall of 2019, as measured by the ratio of admitted students to applicants (behind UC Berkeley and UCLA).{{cite web |title=Undergraduate Admissions Summary |date=16 October 2018 |publisher=University of California |url=https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/infocenter/admissions-residency-and-ethnicity |access-date=March 8, 2020}} UC Irvine received 119,210 applications for admission to the fall 2022 incoming freshman class and 25,213 were admitted, making UC Irvine's acceptance rate 21% for fall 2022. The first-year median weighted GPA was 4.22 for fall 2022.{{cite web |title=Admitted Student Profile {{!}} Office of Undergraduate Admissions {{!}} UCI |url=https://www.admissions.uci.edu/discover/why-uci/admitted.php |website=UCI Office of Undergraduate Admissions |language=en}}{{cite web|url= https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/campuses-majors/irvine/freshman-admit-data.html |title= Irvine: Freshman admit data |publisher=University of California}}

The incoming 2024 freshmen were predominantly from Los Angeles County (27.7%), followed by Orange County (24.8%), San Bernardino County (6.6%), Riverside County (7.1%), and San Diego County (6.5%). Of the 2024 freshmen international students, a majority came from Asia. 63.9% were from China, 8.8% from India, 6.6% from South Korea, and a distant 2.8% from Taiwan.{{Cite web |title=UC Irvine Data Hub - Student Enrollment By |url=https://irap.uci.edu/student-enrollment-2/ |access-date=2025-05-03 |language=en-US}}

Admission rates also vary by the residency of applicants. For Fall 2024, California residents had a selectivity rate of 21.8% out of 87,538 applicants, with a yield rate of 26.1%. Out of state residents saw greater rate of admission, with 49.8% of 15,792 applicants receiving acceptance. However, only 7.6% of those admitted went on to enroll. Of the 19,376 international students who applied, 43.1% were accepted and 13.8% went on to enroll.{{Cite web |title=UC Irvine Data Hub - Undergraduate Admissions |url=https://irap.uci.edu/undergraduate-admissions/ |access-date=2025-05-03 |language=en-US}}

That year, the most popular major for freshmen was Undeclared (22%), followed by Biological Sciences (12.5%), Computer Science (4.2%), Public Health Sciences (3.9%), Criminology, Law & Society (3.0%), and Mechanical Engineering (2.9%).{{Cite web |title=UC Irvine Data Hub - Student Enrollment By |url=https://irap.uci.edu/student-enrollment-2/ |access-date=2025-05-03 |language=en-US}} The median freshman's unweighted and weighted incoming high school GPA was 3.94, and 4.18, respectively.{{Cite web |title=Admitted Student Profile {{!}} Office of Undergraduate Admissions {{!}} UCI |url=https://admissions.uci.edu/discover/why-uci/admitted.php#:~:text=Weighted%20GPA,%25%20-%2075%25:%204.04-4.27 |access-date=2025-05-03 |website=UCI Office of Undergraduate Admissions |language=en}}

The choice to offer admission is based on the University of California's comprehensive review program, which considers a candidate's personal situation, community involvement, extracurricular activities, and academic potential in addition to the traditional high school academic record, personal statement, and entrance examination scores.{{cite web | title=Eligibility in the Local Context – University of California Office of the President | year=2006 | publisher=University of California Office of the President | url=http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2001/comprev.pdf | access-date=2016-02-06 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304112033/http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2001/comprev.pdf | archive-date=2016-03-04 }} While residency is not a factor in admission, it is a factor in tuition expenses, with out-of-state residents fees much greater than California residents. Since the approval of Proposition 209 in November 1996, California state law has prohibited all public universities (including UC Irvine) from practicing affirmative action as part of their admissions processes.

Graduate

In Fall 2024, The School of Law accepted 17.38% of its 3,096 applicants for an enrolling class that has a median LSAT score of 167, and median GPA of 3.81 (interquartile range 3.65-3.89).{{Cite web |title=Standard509Disclosure |url=https://www.abarequireddisclosures.org/barPassageOutcomes |access-date=2025-05-03 |website=www.abarequireddisclosures.org}}{{Cite web |title=UC Irvine Law School: Acceptance Rate & Requirements |url=https://www.juriseducation.com/blog/uc-irvine-law-school-acceptance-rate-requirements |access-date=2025-05-03 |website=juriseducation.com |language=en}} The School of Medicine saw an acceptance rate of 3.98% for 6,929 applicants in 2025, putting it among the nation's 20 most selective medical schools.

The University of California Irvine hosts the UCI Machine Learning Repository, a data resource which is very popular among machine learning researchers and data mining practitioners.{{Cite web |url=https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/index.php |title=- UCI Machine Learning Repository |access-date=2020-12-21 |archive-date=2020-12-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201220222606/http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/index.php }} It was created in 1987 and contains 622 datasets from several domains including biology, medicine, physics, engineering, social sciences, games, and others.{{Cite web |url=https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets.php |title=- UCI Machine Learning Repository datasets |access-date=2020-12-21 |archive-date=2020-12-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201215212042/http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets.php }} The datasets contained in the UC Irvine Machine Learning Repository have been used by thousands of students and researchers in the computer science community and facilitated the publication of approximately 26 thousand scientific articles.[https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=UC+Irvine+machine+learning+repository&btnG=&oq=uc+i Google Scholar – "UC Irvine machine learning repository" search]

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The first fraternities and sororities at UCI began in 1973 with three sororities and three fraternities.{{cite web | url=http://www.lib.uci.edu/ucihistory/index.php?page=students&function=fraternities |title = Anteater Chronicles: The UC Irvine Story |archive-url=https://archive.today/20060916063439/http://www.lib.uci.edu/ucihistory/index.php?page=students&function=fraternities |archive-date=September 16, 2006 }}

There are around 600 student clubs and organizations on campus.{{Cite web |last=Iliff |first=Anna |date=2013-05-19 |title=UC Irvine among happiest universities |url=https://www.ocregister.com/2013/05/19/uc-irvine-among-happiest-universities/ |access-date=2024-03-22 |website=Orange County Register |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Organizations |url=https://www.admissions.uci.edu/discover/student-life/organizations.php |access-date=2024-03-22 |website=UCI Office of Undergraduate Admissions |language=en}} Campus activities throughout the year include cultural nights, arts performances, and live music at Anteater Plaza. Special events such as Summerlands, Wayzgoose, Shocktoberfest, Soulstice, and Earth Day are held yearly.{{cite web|title=Welcome to UCI |url=http://www.admissions.uci.edu/campus_life/welcome_to_uci.html |access-date=July 11, 2011 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120718173324/http://www.admissions.uci.edu/campus_life/welcome_to_uci.html |archive-date=July 18, 2012 }} ASUCI, the university's undergraduate student government, traditionally organizes a world record attempt by the university at the beginning of each academic year. UCI has won Guinness World Records for the largest game of capture the flag six times, with the most recent one in September 2015. In addition, the university has broken the record for the largest game of dodgeball three years straight.{{cite web|title=UC Irvine breaks Guinness World Record for biggest game of capture the flag|website=Los Angeles Times|date=23 September 2015|url=http://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/tn-dpt-me-0923-uci-capture-flag-20150922-story.html|access-date=23 July 2016|last1=Chan|first1=Alex}}{{cite web|title=UC Irvine sets Guinness World Record – this time for capturing the flag|url=http://www.ocregister.com/articles/record-684119-flag-team.html|access-date=23 July 2016|date=2015-09-23|last1=Seipel|first1=Brooke E. }} They have also won records for largest water pistol fight and largest pillow fight.{{cite web|title=UC Irvine bashes way to largest pillow fight record|url=http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2014/10/uc-irvine-bashes-way-to-largest-pillow-fight-record-60950|access-date=23 July 2016|date=2014-10-06}}

UC Irvine has a number of residential options for students interested in living on campus, and guarantees two years of housing to undergraduates who are single and under the age of 25.{{Cite web |title=Student Housing records (University of California, Irvine) |url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt7580290j/entire_text/ |access-date=2025-05-14 |website=oac.cdlib.org}} Part of UCI's 2007 long-range development plan involves expanding on-campus housing to accommodate 60% of all UCI students, and to support a growing graduate population.{{cite web|url=http://www.evc.uci.edu/planning/index.html|title=UC Irvine: Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost|year=2006|publisher=University of California, Irvine|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120729085220/http://www.evc.uci.edu/planning/index.html|archive-date=2012-07-29}} In the wake of the pandemic, the university has considered additional construction as student demand in the surrounding region soars, placing a strain on the housing available. As of 2024, UCI houses approximately 17,878 students or about 50% of the campus enrollment, with plans to add another 1,000 beds by 2030.{{Cite web |title=University of California Consolidated Capital Report 2024-30 |url=https://www.ucop.edu/capital-resources-management/_files/capital-reports/2024-30-consolidated-capital-report.pdf |access-date=15 April 2025 |website=University of California {{!}} Office of the President}}File:Middle Earth dorms, UCI.jpg undergraduate housing complex (for freshmen) are named after places and characters from J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings book series.]]File:Brandywine Front Shot.jpg

Middle Earth is a student housing complex that includes housing approximately 1,784 first-year students in 24 "classics" residence halls, and another 640 in two five-level "towers", a student center (Pippin Center), dining facility (Brandywine) and several resource centers.{{Cite web |title=Middle Earth {{!}} UCI Student Housing |url=https://housing.uci.edu/middle-earth/ |access-date=2025-04-14 |language=en-US}} Each hall houses 48–96 students, although Quenya was built with sixty single-suite rooms originally intended for graduate students.{{Cite web |title=1990-1991 General Catalogue |url=https://www.reg.uci.edu/catalogue/1990-1991Catalogue.pdf |access-date=May 14, 2025}} The names of the halls and other facilities were selected from J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium.{{citation|title=Instant university: the history of the University of California, Irvine, 1957-93|first=Samuel Clyde|last=McCulloch|publisher=University of California, Irvine|year=1996|page=146|quotation=In September [1974], a new student residence cluster named Middle Earth after the mythical land of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings novel opened for 350 students.}}

Middle Earth is located along Ring Road, toward the core of the university's campus. The residence halls were built in three consecutive phases, beginning in 1974.{{citation|first=Lisa L.|last=Spangenberg|contribution=Technological subcultures: Reception of Tolkien|pages=636–637|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=by0dzzQ6m8sC&pg=PA636|title=J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment|editor-first=Michael D. C.|editor-last=Drout|publisher=Routledge|year=2013|isbn=978-1-135-88034-7|quotation=Tolkien's popularity is not limited to scientists and engineers: it runs deeply and widely in academia. Between 1974 and 1990 twenty dorms were built at the University of California at Irvine and named after places in Middle-earth.}}{{citation|title=350 Students Now live in 'Middle Earth'|journal=Los Angeles Times|date=October 13, 1974}}. The first phase was designed by William Pereira.{{citation|url=http://previous.lib.uci.edu/chronicles/index.php?page=buildings&function=level3&building_id=70|title=Middle Earth (I)|website=Anteater Chronicles|publisher=University of California, Irvine Libraries|access-date=2016-09-14}}{{Dead link|date=September 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} The first phase included seven halls: Hobbiton, Isengard, Lorien, Mirkwood, Misty Mountain, Rivendell, and the Shire, along with a separate Head Resident's manufactured home called "Bag End". The second phase was built in 1989 with thirteen more halls: Balin, Harrowdale, Whispering Wood, Woodhall, Calmindon, Grey Havens, Aldor, Rohan, Gondolin, Snowbourn, Elrond, Shadowfax, and Quenya. The third phase was built in 2000 with four halls: Crickhollow, Evenstar, Oakenshield, and Valimar. The last phase was completed in the summer of 2019 and officially opened September 16, 2019; although reported in the media as being called the two towers of Middle Earth,{{citation|url=https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/story/2019-09-17/ucis-middle-earth-towers-expands-with-two-new-towers|title=UC Irvine's Middle Earth housing opens two new towers days ahead of student move-in|first=Lilly|last=Nguyen|date=September 17, 2019|newspaper=Los Angeles Times}} its two buildings are actually named Telperion and Laurelin, after the Two Trees of Valinor. These towers house around 640 undergraduate students.

Mesa Court is another housing community intended for freshman as part of the "First Year Experience". It houses around 3,100 students in 29 "classics" halls and three residential towers. The towers themselves accommodate 1,016 students and include study areas, computer labs, a fitness center, with shared kitchenettes and laundry facilities. Situated below "Caballo", one of the towers, is the other major dining facility on campus (The Anteatery) which can serve 780 students at maximum. {{Cite web |title=Mesa Court Towers named design-build project of the year – UC Irvine News |url=https://news.uci.edu/2017/12/06/mesa-court-towers-named-design-build-project-of-the-year/ |access-date=2025-04-11 |website=news.uci.edu |language=en-US}}

Mesa Court is situated closer to the northern edge of campus and is fed via pedestrian bridges from the Student Center and the School of Humanities making it less connected to the core campus than Middle Earth. Located in close proximity are the Claire Trevor School of the Arts and the Bren Events Center.

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For continuing and transfer students, apartments in East Campus have been privately managed and constructed in phases by a partnership with American Campus Communities since 2004 through a ground lease to Collegiate Housing Foundation as a non-profit owner.{{Cite web |date=May 17, 2017 |title=Office of the President TO MEMBERS OF THE FINANCE AND CAPITAL STRATEGIES COMMITTEE |url=https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/may17/f6.pdf |access-date=May 14, 2025 |website=}} The first phase of apartments, Vista del Campo, was completed in 2004 and houses 1,488 students in 488 units.{{Cite web |title=University of California, Irvine Case Study {{!}} American Campus Communities |url=https://www.americancampus.com/uc-irvine |access-date=2025-05-14 |website=www.americancampus.com}} The second phase, Vista del Campo Norte, consists of 1,564 beds distributed across 545 units and began operation in 2006. The third phase, Puerta del Sol and Camino del Sol, finished construction in 2010, adding 2,111 spaces, combined, in two separate townhome communities.{{Cite web |title=UCI Puerta del Sol |url=https://www.morleybuilders.com/project-experience/uci-puerta-del-sol/ |access-date=2025-05-14 |website=Morley Builders |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=UCI Camino del Sol Undergraduate Housing |url=https://morleyconcrete.com/project-experience/uci-camino-del-sol-undergraduate-housing/ |access-date=2025-05-14 |website=Morley Concrete |language=en-US}} This phase of construction also added an 1,822 stall parking garage, located adjacent to the Anteater Recreation Center.{{Cite web |title=UCI East Campus Phase III Parking Structure |url=https://morleyconcrete.com/project-experience/uci-east-campus-phase-iii-parking-structure/?cat=96 |access-date=2025-05-14 |website=Morley Concrete |language=en-US}} The most recent phase, was completed in two stages: In 2019, the completion of Plaza Verde added 1,441 beds, and Plaza Verde II finished in 2023 to provide accommodations for another 1,077 students. These two complexes share a community center and 543-stall parking structure.{{Cite web |title=UC Irvine East Campus Student Apartments Phase IV-A Design Package |url=https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/may17/f6attach1.pdf |access-date=May 14, 2025}}{{Cite web |title=UCI Plaza Verde II |url=https://www.morleybuilders.com/project-experience/uci-phase-iv-b/ |access-date=2025-05-14 |website=Morley Builders |language=en-US}}

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Additional on-campus housing for undergraduates under the age of 25 in East Campus comes in the form of a community of 42 academic theme, fraternity, and sorority chapter houses. Over two-thirds of the houses are Academic Theme Houses, which are sponsored by academic programs and group together students of similar areas of study. The rest are available for occupation through Greek life organizations.{{Cite web |title=2012-2013 General Catalogue |url=https://www.reg.uci.edu/catalogue/2012-2013Catalogue.pdf |access-date=May 14, 2025}}

Full-time graduate students are guaranteed on-campus housing for the duration of a determined "normal time to degree" for their program, and as long as they maintain good academic standing. They are accommodated in either the Palo Verde, Verano Place, Campus Village, or ACC apartments.{{Cite web |title=Grad & Family Housing {{!}} UCI Student Housing |url=https://housing.uci.edu/grad/ |access-date=2025-05-14 |language=en-US}}

The Verano Place apartments first began housing graduate students in 1966, not long after the founding of the university.{{Cite web |title=Timelines {{!}} UCI Special Collections & Archives |url=https://special.lib.uci.edu/collections/anteater-chronicles/timelines |access-date=2025-05-14 |website=special.lib.uci.edu}} Subsequent development has supplemented the original residence halls with higher-density housing for a predominantly medical, law, and graduate student population of about 2,095.{{Cite web |title=Verano Place {{!}} UCI Student Housing |url=https://housing.uci.edu/verano-place/ |access-date=2025-05-14 |language=en-US}}

In summer of 2022, the Verano 8 Graduate Student Housing Community was completed, adding 1,055 beds across five seven-story buildings to help alleviate the demand of a growing graduate population. Included in the housing community is a community center and an 853-stall parking garage.{{Cite web |title=Best Project - Excellence in Sustainability: University of California, Irvine Verano 8 Graduate Student Housing {{!}} Engineering News-Record |url=https://www.enr.com/articles/57256-best-project-excellence-in-sustainability-university-of-california-irvine-verano-8-graduate-student-housing |access-date=2025-05-14 |website=www.enr.com |language=en}}

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UC Irvine's sports teams are known as the Anteaters and the student body is known as Antourage. They currently participate in the NCAA's Division I, as members of the Big West Conference{{Cite web|url=https://www.ncaa.com/schools/uc-irvine|title=UC Irvine {{!}} NCAA.com|website=NCAA.com|access-date=2017-08-04}} and the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation.{{Cite web|url=http://www.mpsports.org/members/mpsf-members.html|title=MPSPORTS.ORG – Members – Mountain Pacific Sports Federation|website=mpsports.org|access-date=2017-08-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170727190522/http://www.mpsports.org/members/mpsf-members.html|archive-date=2017-07-27}} In the early years of the school's existence, the teams participated at the NCAA Division II level with great success as explained in the UC Irvine Anteaters page. UC Irvine fields nationally competitive teams in baseball, basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, track and field, volleyball and water polo. The university has won 28 national championships in nine different sports, and fielded 64 individual national champions, 53 Olympians and over 500 All-Americans.

The university's most recent NCAA Division I national championship was won by the men's volleyball team in 2013. UC Irvine men's volleyball won four national championships in 2007, 2009, 2012 and 2013.

UC Irvine won three NCAA Division I men's water polo titles, with championships in 1970, 1982 and 1989.

UC Irvine Anteaters baseball won back-to-back national championships at the NCAA College Division College World Series and the NCAA Division II College World Series in 1973 and 1974. Anteater baseball moved to the NCAA Division I level. The 2007 baseball team finished 3rd at the College World Series, and in 2009 the baseball team earned a No. 1 national ranking in NCAA Division I polls from Baseball America and Collegiate Baseball for the first time, as well as a national seed and the right to host an NCAA Regional. The 2014 baseball team returned to the College World Series and finished 5th.

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UCI Anteater's golf team won the NCAA Division II national team championship in 1975 with team member Jerry Wisz winning the individual title. At the NCAA national championships in 1973, 1974 and 1976, those teams finished second twice and fourth the other year. These teams included seven All-Americans.

In 2015, for the first time, the UC Irvine Anteaters men's basketball team appeared in the Division I tournament. It was narrowly defeated in a first-round tournament game by Louisville. The Anteaters made their second NCAA appearance in 2019, beating fourth-seed Kansas State University for their first March Madness win ever.

The anteater was chosen in 1965 when students were allowed to submit mascot candidates, which would be voted on in a campus election. Three undergraduates named Pat Glasgow, Bob Ernst, and Schuyler Hadley Basset III were credited with choosing the anteater and designing a cartoon representation, having been disappointed with other candidates such as a roadrunner, unicorn, seahawk and golden bison.{{cite web|title=Peter, the Anteater: History of the Mascot (Zot) |year=2006 |publisher=University of California, Irvine |url=http://www.admissions.uci.edu/mascot.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20060904043145/http://www.admissions.uci.edu/mascot.html |archive-date=2006-09-04 }}

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While often attributed to the Johnny Hart comic strip B.C., the original anteater design was based on the Playboy bunny.{{cite web|title='B.C.' comic strip artist coming to Celebrate UCI|url=http://news.uci.edu/features/b-c-comic-strip-artist-coming-to-celebrate-uci/|work=UC Irvine News, 11 April 2011|publisher=University of California, Irvine|access-date=30 April 2013|date=2011-04-11}}

In August 2007, a small stuffed anteater accompanied astronaut Tracy Caldwell on Space Shuttle Endeavour mission STS-118.{{cite news | title=Beaumont Grad To Celebrate Birthday In Space | url=http://www.knbc.com/news/13847193/detail.html | publisher=KNBC (NBC4 Los Angeles) | date=August 8, 2007 | access-date=August 10, 2007 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927015233/http://www.knbc.com/news/13847193/detail.html | archive-date=September 27, 2007 }}

Following the 2015 men's basketball team's inaugural appearance in the NCAA Division I tournament, Mashable named Peter the Anteater the winner of its "Mascot Madness" tournament.{{cite web|url=http://mashable.com/2015/04/07/mascot-madness-winner/|title=The world has spoken, and your mascot champion is here|author=Jeff Leeson|date=April 7, 2015|work=Mashable|access-date=August 3, 2015}} The mascot also appeared on an episode of Conan.{{cite web|url=http://www.ocregister.com/articles/mascot-657087-peter-anteater.html |title=Conan O'Brien, Peter the Anteater smackdown!|work=The Orange County Register|access-date=August 3, 2015|date=2015-04-07}}

Since 2019, anonymous students distribute "Petr [sic] stickers", a satiric misspelling of Peter. These stickers are designed with unique designs in limited quantities, and the distribution location is posted on Instagram spontaneously, encouraging students to run to collect them.{{Cite web |date=2022-12-04 |title=The Psychology Behind the Petr Stickers {{!}} New University {{!}} UC Irvine |url=https://newuniversity.org/2022/12/04/the-psychology-behind-the-petr-stickers/ |access-date=2024-08-30 |language=en-US}}

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UC Irvine has more than 200,000 living alumni.{{cite web |title=Introduction < UCI Alumni |url=https://engage.alumni.uci.edu/s/partnerships |website=engage.alumni.uci.edu |publisher=UCI Alumni |access-date=6 October 2021 }} These include astronauts (Tracy Caldwell Dyson), athletes (Steve Scott, Scott Brooks, Greg Louganis and 53 Olympians), Broadway, film, and television actors (Bob Gunton, James LeGros, Jon Lovitz, Brian Thompson, Teal Wicks, Windell Middlebrooks), technological innovators (Roy Fielding, Paul Mockapetris, and Patrick J. Hanratty), educators (Erin Gruwell), musicians (Kevin Kwan Loucks), and scientists (Mika Tosca).{{cite news|title=Patrick Hanratty spotlight|url=http://www.ics.uci.edu/community/news/spotlight/spotlight_hanratty.php|date=October 18, 2012|publisher=The Regents of the University of California|access-date=March 17, 2013|archive-date=November 17, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121117184347/https://www.ics.uci.edu/community//news/spotlight/spotlight_hanratty.php}}

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Five people affiliated with UCI have been honored with the Nobel Prize: three faculty members, one postdoctoral scholar, and one alumnus. In 1995, professor Frank Sherwood Rowland along with postdoctoral student Mario Molina won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry while Frederick Reines won the Nobel Prize in Physics. In 1974, Rowland and Molina worked together to discover the harmful effects of CFCs on the ozone layer, while Reines received the Nobel Prize for his work in discovering the neutrino. In 2004, Irwin Rose, a professor at the School of Medicine, was co-awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with two professors from the Technion for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation. Additionally, David MacMillan, who completed his PhD. from UCI in 1996 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2021 for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis.

File:Rowland Hall 2025.jpg, who won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery that CFCs contribute to ozone depletion. It is a National Historic Chemical Landmark.{{Cite web |title=Rowland Hall earns chemical landmark status – UC Irvine News |url=https://news.uci.edu/2017/04/19/rowland-hall-earns-landmark-status/ |access-date=2025-04-25 |website=news.uci.edu |language=en-US}}]]

Seven Pulitzer Prize winners have been associated with UCI, including three faculty members and four alumni. These include Michael Chabon, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001 for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, and Richard Ford, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1996 for Independence Day. Claude Yarbrough (aka Jonathan Pendragon), class of '76, is one of the most influential magicians of the 20th and 21st centuries.Moehring, John (August 1999), "The Century: The Pendragons", Magic Magazine Vol.8 Thomas Keneally was a visiting professor at UCI in 1985 (when he taught the graduate fiction workshop) and again from 1991 to 1995 (when he was a visiting professor in the writing program).{{cite news|last=McClellan|first=Dennis|title=Keneally to Leave UCI for Home|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-09-26-ls-43251-story.html|access-date=29 April 2013 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=26 Sep 1994}} Keneally is most famous for his book Schindler's Ark (1982) (later republished as Schindler's List), which won the Booker Prize and is the basis of the film Schindler's List that was directed by Steven Spielberg.

The Comparative Literature and Philosophy departments at Irvine have accommodated distinguished intellectuals of international acclaim, including Jacques Derrida, a philosopher and critic most commonly associated with postmodern and post-structuralist thought, who held a position at the University of California, Irvine Department of Comparative Literature from 1986 to his death in 2004; his colleague, Jean-François Lyotard, who taught at UCI from 1987 until 1994;{{cite web |url=http://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/inmemoriam/html/JacquesDerrida.htm |title= In Memoriam – Jacques Derrida |publisher= University of California |author= David Carroll |access-date= 2017-10-15 }} Fellow at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, British philosopher Margaret Gilbert best known for her founding contributions to the analytic philosophy of social phenomena; and British philosopher and FRSE Duncan Pritchard.{{cite web |url= https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/150710/aaron-james/ |url-status=live |archive-date=Jul 5, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230705202943/https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/150710/aaron-james/

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In addition to the Department of Philosophy at UCI, its sister department, the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, which together are ranked as one of the top philosophy programs in the world,{{cite web |url=https://www.humanities.uci.edu/philosophy/about-department |url-status=live |archive-date=Jul 5, 2023 |website=www.humanities.uci.edu |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230705202943/https://www.humanities.uci.edu/philosophy/about-department |language=en |access-date=4 August 2023 |title=About the Department}} also accommodates philosophers such as Brian Skyrms, known for his contributions on game theory and social norms; Jeffrey A. Barrett, known for his contributions to philosophy of physics; and Kai Wehmeier, known for his contributions to Frege.

Ralph J. Cicerone, an earth system science professor and former chancellor of UCI, served as president of the National Academy of Sciences from 2005 to 2016.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/8742363/the_hardballer/ |title=The Hardballer |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=September 19, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090409062856/http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/8742363/the_hardballer |archive-date=April 9, 2009 }}

Three UCI faculty members have been named National Medal of Science recipients.{{cite web|url=http://www.evc.uci.edu/planning/plan0106/01.20.06%20Where%20We%20Are%20Now.pdf |title=A Focus on Excellence: A Strategy for Academic Development at the University of California, Irvine 2005–2015: Where We Are Now |access-date=February 14, 2008 |date=January 20, 2006 |publisher=University of California, Irvine }}{{dead link|date=July 2019|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} In January 2009, UCI Professor Reg Penner won the Faraday Medal for his research with nanowires.{{cite web |title=UCI chemist awarded Faraday Medal |publisher=nae.org |date=December 18, 2008 |url=http://www.zotwire.uci.edu/?story=2152 |access-date=January 31, 2009 |archive-date=June 17, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090617211301/http://www.zotwire.uci.edu/?story=2152 }}

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