Founding Faculty

This list includes all faculty and academic administrators who were present when UCI opened for classes on October 4, 1965.

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Founding Faculty

Name Title School or Discipline
Adams, Hazard Chair English
Adams, John F. Faculty Member English
Aldrich, Daniel G. Chancellor Administration
Allard, Maurice Faculty Member Music
Appel, Howard A. Faculty Member French
Archibald, Kathleen Faculty Member Sociology
Babb, Howard S. Faculty Member English
Baisden, Richard N. Director Extension
Balch, Richard L. Vice Chancellor Student Affairs Administration
Bane, Jr., Gilbert Faculty Member Population and Environmental Biology
Barrutia, Richard Faculty Member Foreign Languages
Bell, Duran Faculty Member Economics
Bell, Ingeborg Powell Faculty Member Sociology
Birnbaum, Isabel Faculty Member Psychology
Boughey, Arthur Chair Population and Environmental Biology
Boyd, James Faculty Member Anthropology
Brant, David Faculty Member Chemistry
Braunstein, Myron Faculty Member Psychology
Brown, Edward Faculty Member English
Bunker, Don Faculty Member Chemistry
Campbell, Richard Faculty Member Organismic Biology
Caserio, Marjorie Faculty Member Chemistry
Cohen, Robert Faculty Member Drama
Coplans, John Rivers Faculty Member Art
Cox, L.E. Vice Chancellor Business and Finance Administration
Crawford, Wayne Chair Athletics
DeLap, Tony Faculty Member Art
Dennett, Daniel Faculty Member Philosophy
Feldman, Julian Faculty Member Social Sciences (Division of)
Fielding, Gordon Faculty Member Geography
Foley, Barbara Faculty Member Sociology
Ford, Kenneth Chair Physics
Forester, Theodore Faculty Member Physics
Frizler, Paul Faculty Member English
Froman, Lewis Faculty Member Political Science
Garrison, Clayton Dean Fine Arts (Division of)
Gelbaum, Bernard Chair Mathematics
Gerard, Ralph W. Dean Graduate Studies
Goertz, Richard Faculty Member Spanish
Gross, Harvey Faculty Member English
Hagan, Kenneth Faculty Member History
Hall, James B. Faculty Member English
Hart, Joe Truman Faculty Member Psychology
Hartwell, Leland Faculty Member Biochemistry
Heiney, Donald Faculty Member English
Hille, C. Einar Faculty Member Mathematics
Holland, John Chair Molecular and Cell Biology
Huddleston, John Faculty Member English
Irwin, Albert Faculty Member Physical Education
Isaacs, David Faculty Member Electrical Engineering
Jacobson, John Faculty Member History
Kalisch, Gerhard Faculty Member Mathematics
Kaplan, Donald Faculty Member Organismic Biology
Kassouf, Sheen Faculty Member Economics
Kearns, James Faculty Member Psychology
Krassner, Stuart Faculty Member Biological Sciences (Division of)
Laborde, Alice Faculty Member French
Lawson, Richard Alan Faculty Member History
Lebow, Arnold Faculty Member Mathematics
Lee, Edward K.C. Faculty Member Chemistry
Lindberg, John Faculty Member German
Loring, Eugene Chair Dance
Maltz, Robert Faculty Member Mathematics
Maradudin, Alexei Faculty Member Physics
March, James Dean Social Sciences (Division of)
Marder, Arthur Faculty Member History
McCarty, George Faculty Member Mathematics
McCulloch, Samuel Dean Humanities (Division of)
McGaugh, James Chair Psychobiology
McLaughlin, Calvin Faculty Member Biochemistry
McMichael, James Faculty Member English
Mehta, Mahli Faculty Member Music
Melden, A.I. Chair Philosophy
Menton, Seymour Chair Foreign Languages
Meyer, Henry Cord Chair History
Miller, Alan Faculty Member Psychology
Moore, Harold Faculty Member Chemistry
Nelson, Keith Faculty Member History
Neubauer, Deane Faculty Member Political Science
Olin, Spencer Faculty Member History
Pellam, John Faculty Member Physics
Peltason, Jack W. Vice Chancellor Academic Affairs Administration
Pelters, Wilm Faculty Member German
Pierce, Conway Assistant to Chancellor Physical Sciences
Radov, Karl Faculty Member Economics
Reck, Vera Faculty Member Russian
Reines, Frederick Dean Physical Sciences (Division of)
Rico, Lucien Antoine Faculty Member French
Rogers, Daniel Faculty Member Physical Education
Rosenthal, Howard Faculty Member Political Science
Rowland, F. Sherwood Chair Chemistry
Russo, Bernard Faculty Member Mathematics
Saunders, Robert Mallough Dean Engineering (School of)
Schell, Edgar Faculty Member English
Schinzinger, Roland Faculty Member Electrical Engineering
Shapiro, Martin Faculty Member Political Science
Shapiro, Stephen Faculty Member English
Shaw, Gordon Faculty Member Physics
Slim, H. Colin Chair Music
Smith, John E. University Librarian Library
Smoke, William Faculty Member Mathematics
Snyder, Richard C. Dean Administration (Graduate School of)
Soderstrom, Stanley Faculty Member Philosophy
Sorenson, Otto Maurice Faculty Member German
Stark, Thomas Faculty Member Physics
Steinhaus, Edward Dean Biological Sciences (Division of)
Stephens, Grover Chair Organismic Biology
Taft, Robert Faculty Member Chemistry
Thomason, Robert Faculty Member Library
Thornton, Raymond Faculty Member Physical Education
Thorpe, Edward Faculty Member Mathematics
Tonge, Jr., Fred Faculty Member Administration (Graduate School of)
Triplett, Richard Faculty Member Drama
Villegas, Juan Faculty Member Spanish
Wagner, Roger Faculty Member Music
Wagner, William Faculty Member Physics
Weicher, John Faculty Member Economics
Weinberger, Norman Faculty Member Psychobiology
Whalen, Richard Faculty Member Psychobiology
Whittaker, Robert Faculty Member Biological Sciences (Division of)
Wlecke, Albert Faculty Member English
Woolfolk, Clifford Faculty Member Microbiology
Wulff, Daniel Faculty Member Biochemistry
Yeh, James Faculty Member Mathematics

Samuel McCulloch, Instant University (Irvine: University of California, Irvine, 1996), 348-350