University of California, Riverside

The University of California, Riverside, commonly known as UC Riverside or UCR, is a public land-grant research university in Riverside, California, and one of the ten campuses of the University of California system.加州大学河滨分校，通称 UC Riverside 或 UCR，是位于加利福尼亚州河滨市的一所公立赠地研究型大学，也是加州大学系统十所校区之一。

Its origins lie in the University of California Citrus Experiment Station founded in 1907, and it opened as the College of Letters and Science on 14 February 1954, was designated a general campus of the University of California in 1959 and admitted its first graduate students in 1961.该校的前身是 1907 年创办的加州大学柑橘试验站，1954 年 2 月 14 日以文理学院之姿开学，1959 年被确定为加州大学的综合性校区，1961 年招收首批研究生。

In the 2027 QS World University Rankings it is placed 492nd, it is 251st in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, it is 255th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities and it falls in the 201-300 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, while OpenAlex credits it with 29,648 research works and 1,733,084 citations.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中该校位列第 492，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中位列第 251，在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 255，在 2026 年世界大学学术排名中处于 201 至 300 区间，OpenAlex 统计其研究成果 29,648 项、累计被引 1,733,084 次。

History

• The University of California Citrus Experiment Station, the university's direct predecessor, was established on 14 February 1907 on 23 acres on the east slope of Mount Rubidoux.加州大学柑橘试验站是该校的直接前身，1907 年 2 月 14 日成立于鲁比杜山（Mount Rubidoux）东坡 23 英亩的土地上。

• In 1917 the experiment station moved to a 475-acre site near Box Springs Mountain, where its agricultural research continued to expand.1917 年，试验站迁往博克斯斯普林斯山附近一块 475 英亩的场地，其农业研究在此继续扩张。

• In 1944 the federal GI Bill brought a surge of returning veterans into California higher education, adding pressure that helped prompt the creation of a new campus in the Riverside area.1944 年，联邦《退伍军人权利法案》使大批退伍军人涌入加州高等教育，由此形成的压力推动了在河滨地区新建一所校区。

• In 1949 State Senator Nelson S. Dilworth authored Senate Bill 512, which Governor Earl Warren signed into law, allocating two million dollars for a new college in Riverside.1949 年，州参议员纳尔逊·S·迪尔沃思提出第 512 号参议院法案，经州长厄尔·沃伦签署成为法律，为在河滨市新建一所学院拨款 200 万美元。

• The College of Letters and Science opened on 14 February 1954 with 65 faculty members and 127 students, and Gordon S. Watkins served as its first provost.文理学院于 1954 年 2 月 14 日开学，有教师 65 人、学生 127 人，戈登·S·沃特金斯出任首任教务长。

• Construction of the first buildings began at a groundbreaking ceremony in April 1951, and by 1954 five structures had been completed, including the Rivera Library, Webber Hall, the Geology Building, the Physical Education Building and Watkins Hall.首批建筑的施工始于 1951 年 4 月的奠基仪式，到 1954 年已建成五座建筑，包括里维拉图书馆、韦伯楼、地质楼、体育楼与沃特金斯楼。

• In 1958 Clark Kerr became president of the University of California and championed the California Master Plan, and in 1959 the regents designated Riverside a general campus of the university.1958 年，克拉克·克尔出任加州大学校长并倡导加州高等教育总体规划；1959 年，校董会确定河滨为加州大学的综合性校区。

• In 1961 the campus admitted its first graduate students and Herman Theodore Spieth became its first chancellor, overseeing its early expansion.1961 年，该校区招收首批研究生，赫尔曼·西奥多·施皮思成为首任校监，主持其早期扩张。

• Ivan Hinderaker served as the campus's second chancellor from 1964 to 1979, a period in which the campus added new colleges and research programmes.伊万·欣德拉凯尔自 1964 年至 1979 年担任该校区第二任校监，其间校区增设了新的学院与研究项目。

• In 1968 the Graduate School of Education was founded, and in 1970 the campus established its business school, originally named the Graduate School of Administration.1968 年，教育研究生院成立；1970 年，校区设立商学院，最初名为管理研究生院。

• In 1974 the Division of Biomedical Sciences was founded, and the campus developed a medical degree programme in partnership with the University of California, Los Angeles.1974 年，生物医学部成立；该校区与加州大学洛杉矶分校合作，开设了医学学位项目。

• In 1989 the campus founded the Bourns College of Engineering, named after the Bourns family of Riverside, which helped fund the expansion of engineering education and research.1989 年，校区成立伯恩斯工程学院，以河滨市的伯恩斯家族命名，该家族曾资助工程教育与研究的扩展。

• In 1992 the campus launched a doctoral programme in dance theory, the first of its kind in the United States, reflecting its strength in the performing arts.1992 年，校区开设舞蹈理论博士项目，为全美首创，体现出其在表演艺术方面的实力。

• In the 1990s the campus experienced the growth known as Tidal Wave II, and by 1995 minority students made up 30 per cent of enrolment, though Proposition 209 in 1997 barred race-conscious admissions.1990 年代，该校区经历了被称为「第二波浪潮」的扩张；到 1995 年少数族裔学生占在校生的 30%，但 1997 年的第 209 号提案禁止了考虑种族的招生做法。

• In 1998 students voted to increase their fees to fund the move of the campus's athletics to NCAA Division I, and in 2000 the campus was classified as a doctoral research university of the highest research activity.1998 年，学生投票同意增加学费，以资助校区体育项目升入美国大学体育协会一级联赛；2000 年，该校被归类为研究活动最活跃的博士型研究大学。

• Since 1999 the campus has invested more than 730 million dollars in new construction, and in 2006 the regents approved a proposal for a new school of medicine, which opened its first class of 50 students in 2013.自 1999 年以来，该校区在新建筑上投入超过 7.3 亿美元；2006 年校董会批准设立新的医学院，该学院于 2013 年招收首批 50 名学生。

• The School of Medicine received preliminary accreditation in October 2012 and welcomed its first students in August 2013, becoming the first new research-based public medical school in the United States in four decades.医学院于 2012 年 10 月获得初步认证，2013 年 8 月迎来首批学生，成为美国四十年来第一所新建的以研究为基础的公立医学院。

• In 2001 the campus founded the Richard J. Heckmann International Center for Entrepreneurial Management in Palm Desert, helped by a six million dollar gift from Heckmann and ten million dollars from California.2001 年，该校区在棕榈沙漠（Palm Desert）创办了理查德·J·赫克曼国际创业管理中心，得助于赫克曼 600 万美元的捐赠与加州政府 1,000 万美元的拨款。

• In 2005 the expanded graduate centre in Palm Desert opened to extend the university's teaching to the Coachella Valley, where it also operates a 540-acre agricultural research station.2005 年，棕榈沙漠扩建后的研究生中心启用，把该校的教学拓展到科切拉谷（Coachella Valley），并在当地运营一个 540 英亩的农业研究站。

• In 2007 the campus opened the Alumni and Visitors Center, a 13,865-square-foot building that serves as a gathering place for its alumni community of more than 94,000 former students.2007 年，该校区启用校友与访客中心，一座 13,865 平方英尺的建筑，作为其逾 94,000 名校友的聚会场所。

• The campus is a member of the Association of American Universities, a group of leading research universities in North America, and has been compared to a rising public research institution in California.该校区是美国大学协会成员，这一组织汇聚北美领先的研究型大学；它常被视为加州一所正在崛起的公立研究型高校。

Academics

• UC Riverside is organised into three academic colleges and two professional schools, namely the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, the Bourns College of Engineering, the School of Business and the School of Medicine.加州大学河滨分校下设三个学术学院与两个职业学院，即人文艺术与社会科学学院、自然与农业科学学院、伯恩斯工程学院、商学院与医学院。

• The College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences was the campus's original college of 1954, and the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences was established in 1958.人文艺术与社会科学学院是该校 1954 年开办时的原始学院，而自然与农业科学学院于 1958 年成立。

• The Bourns College of Engineering was founded in 1989, the Graduate School of Education in 1968 and the School of Business, first named the Graduate School of Administration, in 1970.伯恩斯工程学院成立于 1989 年，教育研究生院成立于 1968 年，商学院则于 1970 年成立，最初名为管理研究生院。

• The campus offers 81 majors, 52 minors, 48 master's programmes and 42 doctoral programmes across its colleges and schools.该校区各学院共开设 81 个专业、52 个辅修、48 个硕士项目与 42 个博士项目。

• UC Riverside is the only campus in the University of California system to offer undergraduate degrees in creative writing and public policy, and one of only three to offer undergraduate business administration.加州大学河滨分校是加州大学系统内唯一开设创意写作与公共政策本科学位的校区，也是仅有的三所开设本科工商管理专业的校区之一。

• The campus has pioneered several programmes, including a doctoral programme in dance theory founded in 1992, an LGBT minor created in 1996 as the first in the University of California and a bachelor's degree in bagpipes in 2007.该校开创了多个项目，包括 1992 年设立的舞蹈理论博士项目、1996 年设立的加州大学首个 LGBT 辅修，以及 2007 年开设的风笛本科学位。

• Its faculty have included two Nobel laureates, seven members of the National Academy of Sciences and more than 110 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science elected since 1997.其师资中曾有两位诺贝尔奖得主、七位美国国家科学院院士，以及 1997 年以来当选的一百一十多位美国科学促进会会士。

• Research expenditure at the campus reached 167.8 million dollars in the 2018 financial year, and agricultural science has long accounted for more than half of its research spending.该校的科研支出在 2018 财年达到 1.678 亿美元，农业科学长期占其科研经费的一半以上。

• Citrus researchers at the campus developed more than 40 new citrus varieties, introduced two Australian wasps in 1927 to control the citrophilus mealybug and released the Oroblanco grapefruit and Gold Nugget mandarin.该校的柑橘研究人员培育出 40 多种柑橘新品种，1927 年引入两种澳大利亚黄蜂以防治柑橘粉蚧，并推出奥罗布兰科柚与金块桔等品种。

• In 1963 campus researcher Charles Coggins found that gibberellic acid could delay the rind ageing of citrus and keep fruit on the tree longer, a discovery with lasting value to the industry.1963 年，该校研究人员查尔斯·科金斯发现赤霉素能延缓柑橘果皮老化、延长果实留树时间，这一发现对柑橘产业具有持久价值。

• The campus partners with China Agricultural University to run a research centre in Beijing, and two name reactions in organic chemistry, the Castro-Stephens coupling and the Midland Alpine Borane reduction, were discovered here.该校与中国农业大学合作在北京设立研究中心；有机化学中的两个人名反应，卡斯特罗-斯蒂芬斯偶联与米德兰阿尔卑斯硼烷还原，也在此地被发现。

• The UCR Library holds more than two million volumes together with 14,017 electronic journals, 23,000 serial subscriptions and 1.7 million microform items.该校图书馆藏书逾 200 万册，另有电子期刊 14,017 种、连续出版物订阅 23,000 种与缩微资料 170 万件。

• The Rivera Library, opened in 1954 and named in 1985 after the author and former chancellor Tomás Rivera, provides 956 seats and holds the Eaton Collection of science fiction, horror and fantasy.里维拉图书馆于 1954 年启用，1985 年以作家、前校监托马斯·里维拉命名，提供 956 个座位，并藏有伊顿科幻、恐怖与奇幻特藏。

• The Raymond L. Orbach Science Library, built in 1998 and renamed in 2009, provides 1,360 seats and houses 533,000 volumes in the sciences and engineering.雷蒙德·L·奥巴赫科学图书馆建于 1998 年、2009 年更名，提供 1,360 个座位，藏有理科与工程类图书 533,000 册。

• In 2024-2025 the campus enrolled 27,633 students, including 24,034 undergraduates and 3,599 graduate students, a record for the campus.2024 至 2025 学年，该校在校生 27,633 人，其中本科生 24,034 人、研究生 3,599 人，创下校区纪录。

• The campus is classified among universities with the highest research activity and offers doctoral degrees across the arts, sciences, engineering, education and business.该校被归类为研究活动最活跃的大学之一，在文科、理科、工程、教育与商科等领域开设博士学位。

Campus

• The main campus covers 1,900 acres in a suburban district of Riverside, at elevations between 1,100 and 1,450 feet, about three miles east of downtown and divided by State Route 60.主校区占地 1,900 英亩，位于河滨市郊区，海拔在 1,100 至 1,450 英尺之间，距市中心约三英里，被 60 号州道分隔为两部分。

• The campus is divided into an East Campus of about 600 acres and a West Campus of 511 acres, with teaching and research buildings concentrated on the western side.校园分为约 600 英亩的东校区与 511 英亩的西校区，教学与研究建筑主要集中在西侧。

• The original buildings were designed by Lester H. Hibbard with H.B. Cody and built by 1917 at a cost of 165,000 dollars in the Mission Revival style.最初的建筑由莱斯特·H·希巴德与 H·B·科迪设计，1917 年建成，造价 165,000 美元，采用传教站复兴风格。

• The campus's landmark Bell Tower, designed by A. Quincy Jones and built in the 1950s, rises 161 feet, contains 48 bells and is one of only five carillons in California.校园地标钟楼由 A·昆西·琼斯设计、建于 1950 年代，高 161 英尺，内设 48 口钟，是加州仅有的五座钟琴楼之一。

• Newer facilities include Bourns Hall in 1995, the Humanities and Social Science building in 1996, the Science Library in 1998, the Pentland and Stonehaven residence halls in 2000, the Arts building in 2001 and the first phase of the Commons in 2007.较新的设施包括 1995 年的伯恩斯楼、1996 年的人文与社会科学楼、1998 年的科学图书馆、2000 年的彭特兰与斯通黑文宿舍、2001 年的艺术楼，以及 2007 年竣工的第一期学生中心。

• The Palm Desert campus occupies 20 acres and includes the Richard J. Heckmann International Center for Entrepreneurial Management, opened in 2001, and the Coachella Valley Agricultural Research Station.棕榈沙漠校区占地 20 英亩，设有 2001 年启用的理查德·J·赫克曼国际创业管理中心，以及科切拉谷农业研究站。

• The UCR ARTSblock brings together the UCR/California Museum of Photography, the Sweeney Art Gallery and the Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts in downtown Riverside.UCR 艺术区把 UCR 加州摄影博物馆、斯威尼美术馆与芭芭拉与阿特·卡尔弗艺术中心汇集于河滨市中心。

• The campus maintains research and teaching collections including a Citrus Variety Collection of 1,800 trees and 640 citrus types, a herbarium of 110,000 specimens and a 40-acre botanical garden with 3,500 plant species.该校保存着若干研究与教学收藏，包括拥有 1,800 株树、640 个柑橘品种的柑橘品种园，11 万份标本的植物标本馆，以及 3,500 种植物的 40 英亩植物园。

• The Entomology Research Museum holds about four million insect specimens, and the California Museum of Photography holds the world's largest collection of vintage stereographs.昆虫学研究博物馆藏有约 400 万件昆虫标本，加州摄影博物馆则藏有全球规模最大的老式立体照片收藏。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings UC Riverside is placed 492nd, and in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings it is 251st.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，加州大学河滨分校位列第 492；在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中位列第 251。

• It is placed 255th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities and falls in the 201-300 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities.该校在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 255，在 2026 年世界大学学术排名中处于 201 至 300 区间。

• In the 2026 U.S. News America's Best Colleges ranking it is tied 75th among national universities and 36th among public schools, and it was named first for social mobility for seven consecutive years.在 2026 年 US News 全美最佳大学排名中，该校并列全美大学第 75、公立大学第 36，并连续七年被评为社会流动性第一。

• In the Washington Monthly 2026 rankings, which measure contribution to the public good, UC Riverside was placed 50th nationally.在衡量公共贡献的《华盛顿月刊》2026 年排名中，加州大学河滨分校位列全美第 50。

• According to OpenAlex the campus has produced 29,648 research works attracting 1,733,084 citations, a level of output comparable with much larger public universities.据 OpenAlex 统计，该校已产出 29,648 项研究成果，累计被引 1,733,084 次，其产出规模可与体量大得多的公立大学相比。

• Two Nobel laureates are among its faculty, one in chemistry and one in physics, and the campus has produced more than 110 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 1997.其师资中有两位诺贝尔奖得主，一位获化学奖、一位获物理学奖；自 1997 年以来，该校产生了 110 多位美国科学促进会会士。

• The campus is a member of the Association of American Universities and has been recognised for combining research strength with a strong record of access and social mobility.该校是美国大学协会成员，并因兼具科研实力与优异的入学机会及社会流动性记录而受到认可。

• UC Riverside's citrus research has had a lasting impact on California agriculture, and its entomology and agricultural science departments remain internationally respected.该校的柑橘研究对加州农业影响深远，其昆虫学与农业科学系至今仍享有国际声誉。

• It is noted for enrolling one of the highest proportions of African American students in the University of California system and the second highest proportion of Latino students after Merced.在加州大学系统内，该校的非洲裔学生比例位居前列，拉丁裔学生比例则仅次于默塞德校区。

Student life

• Students run more than 500 registered organisations, including academic, cultural, religious, recreational and service clubs, under the Associated Students of UC Riverside.学生运营 500 多个注册组织，包括学术、文化、宗教、娱乐与服务类社团，由加州大学河滨分校学生联合会统筹。

• The campus had the first staffed LGBT resource centre in the California community college and university system in 1993 and the first LGBT minor in the University of California in 1996.该校区于 1993 年设立加州高校系统中首个配备人员的 LGBT 资源中心，并于 1996 年开设加州大学首个 LGBT 辅修。

• In 2005 the campus became the first in the nation to offer gender-neutral housing to students, an arrangement now widely copied by other universities.2005 年，该校区成为全国首个为学生提供性别中立宿舍的大学，这种做法此后被众多高校效仿。

• About 3,000 students live in the four residence halls, Aberdeen-Inverness, Dundee, Lothian and Pentland Hills, and a fifth hall, Dundee-Glasgow, opened in 2020.约 3,000 名学生住在阿伯丁-因弗内斯、邓迪、洛锡安与彭特兰希尔四座宿舍楼中，第五座宿舍楼邓迪-格拉斯哥于 2020 年启用。

• Other students live in apartment complexes such as Stonehaven, Bannockburn Village, University Plaza, Falkirk, Oban, Glen Mor and International Village.其他学生则住在斯通黑文、班诺克本村、大学广场、福尔柯克、奥本、格伦莫尔与国际村等公寓区。

• Roughly 40 fraternities and sororities are active on campus, involving about 13 per cent of undergraduates, alongside many cultural and identity-based organisations.校园内约有 40 个兄弟会与姐妹会，参与其中的本科生约占 13%，此外还有众多文化与身份类组织。

• Student media include The Highlander newspaper, founded in 1954, KUCR radio at 88.3 FM, the Mosaic literary magazine from 1959 and the Crate magazine since 2005.学生媒体包括 1954 年创办的《高地人》校报、KUCR 88.3 调频电台、1959 年创刊的《马赛克》文学杂志与 2005 年以来的《板条箱》杂志。

• The Associated Students Program Board stages large events such as the Block Party Concert, Winter Soulstice, the Homecoming Bonfire and Spring Splash each year.学生联合会项目委员会每年举办大型活动，如街区派对音乐会、冬至节、返校篝火晚会与春季泼水节。

• UC Riverside shares the motto of the University of California system, Fiat Lux, meaning let there be light, and its teams are known as the Highlanders and compete in the Big West Conference.加州大学河滨分校沿用加州大学系统的校训（Fiat Lux），意为「要有光」；其运动队名为高地人，参加大西区联盟赛事。

Notable people

• Gordon S. Watkins was the first provost of the Riverside campus, guiding it from its opening in 1954 through its early years as a college.戈登·S·沃特金斯是该校区首任教务长，引领它自 1954 年开办起度过早期的学院阶段。

• Charles E. Young was UC Riverside's first student body president and later became chancellor of the University of California, Los Angeles.查尔斯·E·扬是加州大学河滨分校首位学生会主席，后来出任加州大学洛杉矶分校校监。

• Richard R. Schrock, a Nobel laureate in chemistry in 2005, studied at UC Riverside and later joined its faculty, winning the prize for work on olefin metathesis.2005 年诺贝尔化学奖得主理查德·R·施罗克曾在加州大学河滨分校求学，后回校任教，因烯烃复分解研究获奖。

• Barry Barish, a Nobel laureate in physics in 2017, taught at UC Riverside and was a leading figure in the detection of gravitational waves.2017 年诺贝尔物理学奖得主巴里·巴里什曾在加州大学河滨分校任教，是引力波探测领域的领军人物。

• Billy Collins, the United States Poet Laureate from 2001 to 2003, is a graduate of UC Riverside and a widely read poet.比利·柯林斯于 2001 至 2003 年任美国桂冠诗人，毕业于加州大学河滨分校，是广受读者欢迎的诗人。

• Steve Breen, an editorial cartoonist, studied at UC Riverside and won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1998 and 2009.社论漫画家史蒂夫·布林曾就读于加州大学河滨分校，并于 1998 年与 2009 年两度获得普利策社论漫画奖。

• Tim D. White, a paleoanthropologist and graduate of UC Riverside, led the research on the Lucy skeleton and was named by Time magazine among the world's most influential people in 2010.古人类学家、加州大学河滨分校毕业生蒂姆·D·怀特主持了「露西」骨架的研究，并于 2010 年被《时代》周刊评为全球最具影响力人物之一。

• Jane Smiley, a novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, taught in the campus's creative writing programme, which is known for producing distinguished writers.小说家简·斯迈利曾获普利策小说奖，在该校创意写作项目任教，该项目以培养杰出作家而闻名。

• The author and urban historian Mike Davis, a MacArthur Fellow, taught at UC Riverside and was known for his influential writing on cities and the environment.作家与城市史学家迈克·戴维斯是麦克阿瑟奖得主，曾在加州大学河滨分校任教，以其在城市与环境方面的有力著述闻名。

• Other notable faculty include the writer Reza Aslan, the speculative fiction author Nalo Hopkinson and the novelist Laila Lalami, all known for award-winning work.其他著名教师包括作家雷扎·阿斯兰、推理与奇幻文学作家娜洛·霍普金森，以及小说家莱拉·拉拉米，三人均以获奖作品闻名。

• S. Jack Hu became the tenth chancellor of UC Riverside on 15 July 2025, arriving from the University of Georgia where he had served as provost.S·杰克·胡于 2025 年 7 月 15 日成为加州大学河滨分校第十任校监，此前他在佐治亚大学担任教务长。