University of California Los Angeles - Bruin Life / Southern Campus Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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AT DAVIS: principal branch of the University ' s broad agri- cultural program is the School of Agriculture at Davis. Devoted to instruction in farming and related subjects, the campus includes modern classrooms and laboratories, as well as a newly-completed dormitory housing 400 students. ON MT. HAMILTON: the result of the dreams of a piano maker, James Lick, is the Lick Observatory, which became a part of the University in 1888. One of the first to be built on a mountain top, it houses the second largest reflector in the world and the University ' s astronomical department. . . . one university . . . AT RIVERSIDE: already one of the finest citrus experimental stations, the Riverside campus is planning a College of Liberal Arts, scheduled to open in September of 1953. With its many research and testing facilities, the campus has become an important part of the California citrus industry.

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1 I AT BERKELEY: familiar landmark of 16,000 students is the stately Campanile. First member of the University family, Cal boasts a recently-completed biochemistry building, virus lab, and electrical engineering building, as well as two newly-elected Nobel prize winners in the field of science. eight campuses . . . AT LOS ANGELES: acquisition of a chancellor and increased local administration was a welcome accompaniment to the forty-one million dollar construction program in progress on the UCLA campus. Newly-completed law and art build- ings will be joined by others including a medical school.

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AT SANTA BARBARA: strictly California is the setting for the Santa Barbara campus, on the hillside overlooking town and ocean. Strictly Californian and modern will be the new setting when the 1500 students move into their 408-acre Goleta campus which is scheduled to open sometime in 1953. . . . of California AT LA JOLLA- of special interest to Southland travelers is the T. W. Vaughan Aquarium-Museum, a part of the University ' s Scripps Institute of Oceanography. Besides making off-shore studies of the ocean, the institute owns a small ship which travels all over the world for samples and tests. AT SAN FRANCISCO: high on a hill is the University ' s Medi- cal Center which, like the other campuses, is enjoying the pangs of growth with current enrollment of 1300 expected to reach 4000 by 1970. Installed in the newly finished Medical Science Building is a valuable radioactivity center. ■i