University of California, Irvine

The University of California, Irvine is a public, coeducational university situated in suburban Irvine, California. It is one of ten University of California campuses and is commonly known as UCI or UC Irvine.

Notable members of faculty

• Gregory Benford – hard science fiction author
• Leo Chavez – anthropologist and author
• Ralph J. Cicerone – Former chancellor, National Academy of Sciences president
• Elizabeth Loftus – psychologist
• Frederick Reines - (1966-1998, deceased) Nobel laureate, Physics 1995
• Irwin Rose – Nobel laureate, Chemistry 2004
• F. Sherwood Rowland – Nobel laureate, Chemistry 1995
• Barry Siegel – Pulitzer Prize winner
• Rein Taagepera (until 1991) – Estonian politician and political scientist
• Ngugi wa Thiongo – author
• Edward O. Thorp – author
• Martin Wattenberg – political scientist
• Jacques Derrida (1986 - 2004 ) – philosopher
• Duane Metzger - A founder of the modern science of Ethnography, Ph.D. University of Chicago, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Social Sciences.
• Francisco_J._Ayala – Biologist. Former president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
• Donald McKayle - Choreographer