University of California
The University of California, Irvine is one of the youngest in the California university system. Founded in 1965, to find the origins of the institution should be looked at the final years of the 50s, at the University of California began to consider the need to build a new campus led to the population of southern Been. To do a campus building was planned in an area called The Irvine Ranch and located in Orange County. The Irvine Ranch was chosen from 23 participants before the start of work for the establishment of the city it was virtually undeveloped. Around him he was taking shape what is now the city of Irvine. The university was originally structured in six academic units, which called Divisions (divisions): Biological Sciences (Biological Sciences), Physical Sciences (Physics), Fine Arts (similar to but including the Fine Arts Performing Arts), Social Sciences (Social Sciences) and Humanities (Humanities). Later they were added other units and modifying the organization. If some campus figures are compared in opening the academic year (1965) with 40 years later, the development is very perceptible. Faced with 1,589 students enrolled in its release, 23,835 were registered in 2005 ; while 119 teachers teach in 1965, 1,359 did so in 2005 ; and 8 existing buildings when the first students spent more than 170. Curiously, include the campus of the University of California, Irvine has hosted several film shoots. The first was Conquest of the Planet of the Apes ( The Conquest of the Planet of the Apes , 1972), which benefited from the contrast between the campus and then the environment still undeveloped. Other bands who chose one or more stages of the ICU were the well-known story of supernatural horror Poltergeist (1982); and Ocean's Eleven (2001), directed by Steven Soderbergh and remake of a 1960 film starring Frank Sinatra. * Source photo: University of California, Irvine