Spotlight: President Lyndon Johnson

The University of California, Irvine has a long tradition of working closely with the Federal Government, starting when President Lyndon Johnson attended the UCI site dedication on June 20,1964.

Our campus recognizes the Federal Government as one of our largest donors as UCI pursues a number of joint research initiatives. In 2005, campus received nearly $200 million in federal funding. As a point of pride in the quality of the research that takes place on all the University of California campuses, UCI supports merit-based peer review as the process most likely to ensure the quality of federally funded research and training.

Today, our campus' relationships with federal legislators and agencies continue to be strong and mutual. The Office of Community and Government Relations welcomes our Federal delegation and their staffs to come to the campus, interact with our students, discover our labs or explore the minds of one of our Nobel Prize winning researchers.

“Thanks to UCI, we continue to burnish our global reputation as an outstanding place to live, work and learn. With pursuits as varied as leading Alzheimer's research, studying the intersection of art and technology, and conducting pathbreaking inquiries in social ecology, UCI has been constantly innovative. For four decades, our university has advanced the cause of intellectual and social betterment for our region, our nation, and indeed the entire planet.”

—Christopher Cox, chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, who represented the UCI community in Congress from 1988 to 2005

President Lyndon B. Johnson speaks at UCI's dedication in 1964. From Early Campus Photograph Albums, AS-056.