Colleges / Campus scene
After a year of accomplishments that included two Nobel prizes for campus professors, UC Irvine has been granted membership into the Assn. of American Universities, which recognizes colleges with outstanding research programs.
The membership was presented to UCI this month at the associations’s semiannual meeting in Pasadena, where UC Davis also received the honor.
The Assn. of American Universities has 60 members, including such institutions as Stanford University, Caltech and USC.
UC Irvine Chancellor Laurel L. Wilkening said the award “demonstrates that our peers at private and public universities agree that UCI has arrived in the top echelons of American universities.”
Membership to the association comes one year after UCI faculty members Frederick Reines and F. Sherwood Rowland were named Nobel laureates in physics and chemistry, respectively.
In addition, the university’s doctoral programs last year were ranked among the nation’s top 30 by the National Research Council.
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