| 1950 |
School of Criminology established
at Berkeley. |
| 1951 |
College of Letters
and Science at Davis enrolled its first student. |
| |
UC Berkeley professors Edwin
M. McMillan and Glenn T. Seaborg receive the Nobel Prize in
Chemistry |
| 1952 |
Clark Kerr named
first chancellor at Berkeley. |
| |
Raymond B. Allen named chancellor
at. Los Angeles; name of the Los Angeles campus changed to University
of California, Los Angeles. |
| |
Stanley B. Freeborn
named first provost at Davis; title changed to chancellor in
1958. |
| 1954 |
College of Letters and Science
opened at Riverside. |
| |
Santa Barbara
campus moved to Goleta site. |
| 1955 |
Clark George Kuebler named provost
at Santa Barbara. |
| |
Herbert C. Moffitt
Hospital opened in San Francisco. |
| 1956 |
Herman T. Spieth named provost
of the Riverside campus; title changed to chancellor in 1958. |
| |
Elmer R. Nobel
named acting-provost at Santa Barbara; title changed to vice-chancellor
and acting chief campus officer in 1958. |
| 1958 |
Clark Kerr elected President
of the University upon Sproul's retirement. |
| |
Glenn T. Seaborg
named chancellor at Berkeley. |
| |
John B. deC. M. Saunders named
first provost at San Francisco; title changed to chancellor
in 1964. |
| |
Santa Barbara
designated a general campus of the University and renamed the
University of California, Santa Barbara. |
| |
Regents authorized establishment
of an Institute of Technology and Engineering at La Jolla (now
the School of Science and Engineering). |
| |
School of Dentistry
established at Los Angeles. |
| 1959 |
Vern O. Knudsen named chancellor
at Los Angeles. |
| |
Emil M. Mrak
named chancellor at Davis; Regents declared Davis a general
campus of the University. |
| |
Samuel B. Gould named first chancellor
at Santa Barbara. |
| |
Regents approved
development of the La Jolla site as a general University campus;
named University of California, San Diego in 1960. |
| |
Site on the Irvine Ranch in Orange
county tentatively selected for new campus of the University. |
| |
College of Environmental
Design established at Berkeley. |
| |
UC Berkeley professors Emilio
G. Segre and Owen Chamberlain receive the Nobel Prize in Physics |
