加州大学圣地亚哥分校:愿知识之光普照大地
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The University of California, San Diego (also referred to as UC San Diego or UCSD) is a public research university located in La Jolla, California, United States.It is one of America"s Public Ivy universities, which recognizes top public research universities in the United States. The university was admitted to the Association of American Universities in 1982. UC San Diego was the first general campus of the UC to be designed "from the top down" in terms of research emphasis. The campus accepted its f irst undergraduate class of 181 freshmen in 1964.The San Diego Freeway passes through the campus and separates the UC San Diego Medical Center and Mesa apartment housing from the greater part of the campus. UC San Diego"s comprehensive doctoral program has high undergraduate degree coexistence as well as professional programs in business, medicine, and pharmacy. Its graduate division and professional schools include the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, School of Medicine, Institute of Engineering in Medicine, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, Jacobs School of Engineering, Rady School of Management, and Skaggs School of Pharmacy. UC San Diego has noted graduate programs in biological sciences and medicine, economics, social and behavioral sciences, and physics.
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Residential colleges: UC San Diego"s undergraduate division is organized into six residential colleges including: Revelle College, founded in 1964 as First College, which has highly structured requirements. John Muir College, founded in 1967 as Second College, emphasizes a "spirit of self-sufficiency and individual choice"and offers loosely structured general-education requirements. Thurgood Marshall College, founded in 1970 as Third College, emphasizes "scholarship, social responsibility and the belief that a liberal arts education must include an understanding of one"s role in society". Earl Warren College, founded in 1974 as Fourth College, requires students to pursue a major of their choice while also requiring two"programs of concentration" in disciplines unrelated to each other and to their major. Eleanor Roosevelt College, founded in 1988 as Fifth College, which focuses its core education program on a cross-cultural interdisciplinary course sequence entitled "Making of the Modern World". Sixth College, founded in 2002 with a focus on "historical and philosophical connections among culture, art and technology."
生词助读
in terms of 依据;按照
coexistence [kuiɡzistns] n. 共存;共处
behavioral [biheivjr()l] adj. 行为的
self-sufficiency [selfsfinsi] n. 自给自足
cross-cultural [krskltrl] adj. 跨文化的;交叉文化的
entitle [intaitl] vt. 称做;定名为
中文概述
加州大学圣地亚哥分校建于1964年,位于美国加利福尼亚州的拉荷亚,是一所非常年轻但知名度较高的综合性公立大学。
加州大学圣地亚哥分校设有数十个学科专业,其生物学科在全美名列前茅,其医学院更是美国全国各大校中的翘楚。其他科系如化学、语言学、微生物学、西班牙语、物理学、心理学、电脑、电机等学科在美国大学相应领域排名中稳居前20名,具有较大的影响力和较强的实力。
加州大学圣地亚哥分校设有多种实习项目,例如:在当地公司实习获取学分,在跨国公司工作获得实践经验等。
加州大学圣地亚哥分校师资包括七位诺贝尔奖得主和一位宇航员,其拥有院士的人数名列全美大学第七,理科师资排在全美公立大学首位。历史上共有2位教授荣获过诺贝尔奖,4位教授荣获过国家科学奖章,目前任教的教授中有7位诺贝尔奖得主、61位国家科学院院士、12位国家工程院院士。
梦想成功录
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
世界上对勇气的最大考验是忍受失败而不丧失信心。
The reason why a great man is great is that he resolves to be a great man.
伟人之所以伟大,是因为他立志要成为伟大的人。