UCI: Bright Past, Brilliant Future (Third Millennium Publishing, June 2015)
By Sharon L. Roan and John Westcott
Edited by Marina Dundjerski
On a brilliant day in 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson stepped from a helicopter into an undeveloped Irvine Ranch meadow and dedicated the land that would become UC Irvine.
What a difference 50 years make.
UCI: Bright Past, Brilliant Future, a richly illustrated 176-page book, describes how over the course of five decades the campus proved to be fertile ground for advances in medicine, technology, art, education, science and the study of the human condition. Nobel Prize winners replaced cowboys. Writers of everything from Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction to computer code supplanted campfire storytellers.