| 1960 |
Franklin D. Murphy named chancellor
at Los Angeles; School of Library Service and School of Public
Health established at Los Angeles. |
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College of Agriculture
established at Riverside. |
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The Irvine Company offered 1,000
acres as a gift to the University for site of new campus; deed
recorded, January 20, 1961. |
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Two UC faculty
members receive Nobel Prizes: Donald A Glaser (Physics, Berkeley),
and Willard F. Libby (Chemistry, Los Angeles) |
| 1961 |
Edward W. Strong named chancellor
at Berkeley. |
| |
Herbert F. York
named first chancellor at San Diego. |
| |
Dean E. McHenry named first chancellor
at Santa Cruz. |
| |
Graduate Divisions
established at San Francisco, Riverside, Davis, and Santa Barbara. |
| |
College of Letters and Science
and College of Engineering established at Santa Barbara. |
| |
Cowell Ranch
property at Santa Cruz designated by the Regents as the south
central coast site for a general campus of the University. |
| |
College of Fine Arts established
at Los Angeles. |
| |
UC Berkeley
professor Melvin Calvin received Nobel Prize in Chemistry. |
| 1962 |
Vernon I. Cheadle named chancellor
at Santa Barbara; School of Education established at Santa Barbara. |
| |
Daniel C. Aldrich,
Jr., named first chancellor at Irvine. |
| |
School of Architecture and Urban
Planning established at Los Angeles. |
| |
College of Engineering
established at Davis. |
| |
UC San Diego professor Francis
Crick received Nobel Prize in Medicine. |
| 1963 |
UC San Diego
professor Maria Goeppert-Mayer received Nobel Prize in Physics |
| 1964 |
Ivan Hinderaker named chancellor
at Riverside. |
| |
John S. Galbraith
named chancellor at San Diego; San Diego campus commenced undergraduate
instruction; School of Medicine at San Diego began organization,
with plans to accept first students in the fall of 1968. |
| |
School of Law established at
Davis, with the first students to be admitted, fall, 1966. |
| |
Graduate Divisions
established at Santa Cruz and Irvine. |
| |
UC Berkeley professor Charles
H. Townes received Nobel Prize in Physics. |
| 1965 |
Martin Meyerson
named acting chancellor at Berkeley, serving from January to
July; Roger W. Heyns named chancellor at Berkeley. |
| |
Irvine campus opened; first student-faculty
convocation held in Campus Hall, September 26. |
| |
Cowell College
began instruction at Santa Cruz. |
| |
Establishment of a School of
Medicine authorized for the Davis campus. |
| |
UCLA professor
Julian S. Schwinger received Nobel Prize in Physics. |
| 1966 |
Willard C. Fleming named chancellor
at San Francisco. |
| 1967 |
Regents fire
UC President Clark Kerr; Acting President Harry R. Wellman succeeds
him as head of the University system. |
| 1968 |
Charles J. Hitch becomes UC's
13th president. |
| |
UC celebrates
its centennial |
| |
UC Berkeley professor Luis Alvarez
received the Nobel Prize in Physics. |
| |
Charles E. Young
named chancellor at Los Angeles. |
| |
William J. McGill named chancellor
at San Diego. |
| 1969 |
James H. Meyer
named chancellor at Davis |
| |
Philip R. Lee named chancellor
at San Francisco. |
