A snapshot of University of California programs and services in your district It starts here
Congressional District 40 — Ed Royce (R) UC alumni in this district: 10,304
UC Irvine employees: 10,000
UC in Your District
The University of California’s reach
goes well beyond its 10 campuses,
five medical centers and three
national laboratories. The
University’s presence is felt in each
of California’s 58 counties through
a wide array of exemplary
community partnerships, enriching
cultural resources and innovative
research programs. From health-
care education for rural physicians
to agricultural research advice for
local farmers to college preparation
efforts in nearly every public
school, UC has a direct influence in
your community. Find out more
about UC programs in your district
by visiting:
www.universityofcalifornia.edu
UC IRVINE MEDICAL CENTER UC IRVINE CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR
TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND
UC Irvine Medical Center has a UC Irvine is one of the top American INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
strong reputation in neurosciences, universities and has a $2.35 billion
cancer and genetics research. The economic impact on Orange County. To help ensure that California
UC Irvine Medical Center in Orange UC Irvine is responsible for the maintains its leadership in the rapidly
provides cutting-edge medical creation of more than 15,000 jobs in changing telecommunications and
research to the general population Orange County. Noted internationally information technology marketplace,
and to a disproportionate share of the for its rich academic programs, UC UC San Diego and UC Irvine have
area’s indigent and uninsured Irvine offers 55 undergraduate majors, created the California Institute for
populations. The UC Irvine Medical 49 minors and a myriad of Telecommunications and
Center's 462-bed facility is Orange specializations. UC Irvine also hosts Information Technology (Cal-(IT)².
County's only designated an internationally acclaimed The institute teams UC researchers
comprehensive emergency service teaching hospital and medical with leading California
center and Level I Trauma Referral center, a School of Education, a telecommunications and computer
Center. School of Management and the companies to conduct research on the
Henry Samueli School of scientific and technological
Engineering. components needed to bring wireless
technology to the next level. Research
sites are housed at UC San Diego
and UC Irvine.
A snapshot of University of California programs and services in your district It starts here
Congressional District 40 — Ed Royce (R) UC alumni in this district: 10,304
UC Irvine employees: 10,000
UC’s Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources UC Irvine’s Criminology Outreach Program familiarizes local
Cooperative Extension provides comprehensive agricultural K-12 students with college course content, introduces them to
research information for local growers, ranchers, governments intellectual pursuits and involves the students in the type of
and the larger community through county advisors at the policy debates that occur in the field of criminology.
Orange County office. http://ucanr.org www.cfep.uci.edu
The Puente Project runs The UC Irvine Gifted Students Academy assists gifted K-12
programs at 51 community students in setting their sights toward a scholarly collegiate
colleges and 35 high schools experience. UCI provides an environment that enables gifted
throughout California to students to experience the accelerated pace and advanced
increase the enrollment and curriculum of college. http://www2.cfep.uci.edu
retention of educationally
underserved students in four- UC’s MESA (Mathematics,
year universities. Puente works Engineering & Science
with schools in the Anaheim Unified School District and Achievement) Program works to
Fullerton Community College Puente students graduate from prepare educationally disadvantaged
4-year universities at twice the average rate. students for four-year colleges.
http://www.puente.net MESA works with South Junior
High in Anaheim and Kraemer
ArtsBridge is the arts education and Junior High in Placentia. The
outreach program of UC Irvine and MESA California Community College Program increases the
provides scholarships to UC students number of math and science majors who successfully transfer
to teach the arts and conduct and receive degrees from 4-year universities. This program is
workshops in the Orange County in place at CSU Fullerton and Fullerton Community College.
community. Artsbridge works with http://mesa.ucop.edu
several K-12 schools in the area
including Woodbury Elementary and UC’s Early Academic Outreach
Mark Twain Special School in Program (EAOP) provides
Garden Grove and Fullerton Union High. www.arts.uci.edu academic support, career advising,
college counseling, motivational
UC Irvine’s Chemistry Outreach program has teams of UC and skill-building workshops to help
students visiting Orange County schools to perform over 85,000 California students
demonstrations and talk about chemistry. Since 1992, over realize their dreams of a college
24,000 students have been reached at schools throughout education. EAOP works with several K-12 schools in the
Anaheim, Garden Grove and Fullerton. www.chem.uci.edu Anaheim area. http://www.eaop.org
The Lindcove Research and Extension Center was UC Riverside’s CE-CERT program contributes to improved
established by local growers and UC Riverside to facilitate environmental quality and energy efficiency through
research on the California citrus industry. Researchers focus interdisciplinary research and by providing educational
on areas such as the management of citrus pests. opportunities for the next generation of engineers, scientists
and policy-makers in the region. http://www.cert.ucr.edu
The History through Literature
Project, within the UC Berkeley UC Irvine’s San Joaquin
International Studies department, Freshwater Marsh Reserve
builds global curriculums for K-12 represents one of the last
teachers throughout the state. remnants of freshwater wetlands
Topics range from India’s literary that once covered much of
history to the spread of Islam. Orange County’s flood plain.
Seminars and an online database of The marsh was restored by UC
lesson plans support thousands of Irvine (with grants from the Ford
teachers statewide. http://www.ias.berkeley.edu/orias Foundation) and is located within a ten-minute walk from UCI.
The Reserve serves as both an important research center and
UC’s California Subject Matter Projects develop teacher educational resource on issues such as migratory birds, water
knowledge in K-12 subjects by enhancing instructional quality management and marsh ecosystems. The site is one of
strategies and developing ‘teacher-leaders’. With the expertise 34 UC-affiliated natural reserves in the state.
of UC faculty, the program is in over 500 California school http://nrs.ucop.edu
districts and annually trains thousands of teachers through
intensive summer courses. Courses are in place throughout For a complete listing of UC programs in your district, access
th
schools in the 40 Congressional District, including El our on-line database at: www.universityofcalifornia.edu
Dorado High in Placentia.