81-535: When the Nines Roll Over (and Other Stories) is a 2004 short story collection by David Benioff . A short film adaptation of the first of the seven stories, for which Benioff wrote the screenplay, directed, and produced, was released in 2005. After the success of The 25th Hour , Benioff wrote collections of short stories that he would later release as a compilation in When the Nines Roll Over (and Other Stories) . There
162-494: A world record attempt by the university at the beginning of each academic year . UCI has won Guinness World Records for the largest game of capture the flag six times, with the most recent one in September 2015. In addition, the university has broken the record for the largest game of dodgeball three years straight. They have also won records for largest water pistol fight and largest pillow fight . On November 30, 2007,
243-399: A "darker and a bit more brutal" story, writing it with an R rating in mind, but acknowledged the film's final tone would rest with the producers and director. In 2006, Benioff became interested in adapting George R.R. Martin 's novel series A Song of Ice and Fire , and began working with D.B. Weiss on a proposed television series, Game of Thrones . The pilot, " Winter Is Coming ",
324-484: A "skyway" to connect all the buildings in each of the six "spokes". Construction on the campus all but ceased after the Administration building, Aldrich Hall, was completed in 1974, and then resumed in the late 1980s, beginning a massive building boom that still continues today. This second building boom continued the futuristic trend, but emphasized a much more colorful, postmodern approach that somewhat contradicted
405-606: A $ 40 million donation from Bill Gross ' philanthropic foundation to turn its nursing science program into the Sue and Bill Gross School of Nursing. The UC Regents formally approved the establishment of the school in January 2017. In July 2020, the UC Regents approved the establishment of the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. In July of 2024, UCI received a gift of $ 50 million to support
486-434: A New Greek), and risk management programs (topics vary). There are around 600 student clubs and organizations on campus. Campus activities throughout the year include cultural nights, arts performances, and live music at Anteater Plaza. Special events such as Summerlands, Wayzgoose, Shocktoberfest, Soulstice, and Earth Day are held yearly. ASUCI , the university's undergraduate student government , traditionally organizes
567-446: A School of Engineering. The "principal author" of the plan was Ivan Hinderaker , who served under Aldrich as UCI's vice-chancellor for academic affairs before departing to become the second chancellor of UC Riverside. The UCI College of Letters and Science was to be divided into five divisions which together would initially offer about a dozen majors: Biological Sciences, Fine Arts, Humanities, Physical Sciences, and Social Sciences. It
648-401: A concept for a feature film, but our experience on Thrones has convinced us that no one provides a bigger, better storytelling canvas than HBO." The announcement of Confederate met with public animosity and as of August 2019 (when Benioff's and Weiss's deal with Netflix was announced) is not moving forward. In February 2018, Disney announced that Benioff and Weiss would write and produce
729-550: A crowd of 15,000 people, and on October 4, 1965, the campus began operations with 1,589 students, 241 staff members, 119 faculty, and 43 teaching assistants. However, many of UCI's buildings were still under construction and landscaping was still in progress, with the campus only at 75% completion. By June 25, 1966, UCI held its first Commencement with fourteen students, which conferred ten Bachelor of Arts degrees, three Master of Arts degrees, and one Doctor of Philosophy degree. Unlike most other University of California campuses, UCI
810-528: A large number of study areas, auditoriums, and two food courts, and therefore is one of the most popular places to study on campus. UC Irvine also has a number of computer labs that serve as study centers. The School of Humanities maintains the Humanities Instructional Resource Center, a drop-in computer lab specializing in language and digital media. Additionally, UCI maintains five other drop-in labs, four instructional computer labs, and
891-448: A new series of Star Wars films after the final season of Game of Thrones ended in 2019. Towards the end of the final season of Game of Thrones , a petition to HBO was started on Change.org . It called Benioff and Weiss "woefully incompetent writers" and demanded "competent writers" to remake the eighth season of Game of Thrones in a manner "that makes sense". The petition eventually amassed over 1.5 million signatures. In
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#1732876645347972-798: A number of reservation-only SmartClassrooms, some of which are open 24 hours. Other popular study areas include Aldrich Park, the Cross-Cultural Center, the Locus (a study room and computer lab used by the Campuswide Honors Program), and plazas located in every school. A network of tunnels runs between many of the major buildings on campus and the Central Plant, with the major trunk passage located beneath Ring Mall. Smaller tunnels branch off from this main passage to reach individual buildings, carrying electrical and air-conditioning utilities from
1053-646: A portion of the University of California Natural Reserve System . UC Irvine set up the first Earth System Science Department in the United States . The university was rated as one of the " Public Ivies " in 1985 and 2001 surveys comparing publicly funded universities the authors claimed provide an education comparable to the Ivy League . The UC Irvine Anteaters currently compete in the NCAA Division I as members of
1134-568: A press release defending Drake and claiming that anti-Semitic activity was "exaggerated". In 2010, eleven students from the Muslim Student Union staged a protest against a speech by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren by disrupting it several times. The students and the student's union involved were first disciplined by UCI and then had criminal charges brought against them. They were convicted of misdemeanor charges and sentenced to three years probation, community service, and fines. This led to
1215-449: A school or department office; others are housed in their own facilities. These are a few of the research organizations at UCI: Among universities under 50 years of age Times Higher Education ranked UCI 4th in the world and 1st in the US for 2012, 5th in the world and 1st in the US for 2013, 7th in the world and 1st in the US in 2014, and 7th in the world and 1st in the US in 2015. 2015
1296-422: A screenplay of the mythological epic Troy (2004), for which Warner Bros. pictures paid him $ 2.5 million. He also wrote the script for the psychological thriller Stay (2005), directed by Marc Forster and starring Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts . His screenplay for The Kite Runner (2007), adapted from the novel of the same name, marked his second with Forster. Benioff was hired in 2004 to write
1377-402: A small label. The other stories are varied, ranging from the tale of a young soldier ordered to execute an elderly woman to a drama about a lovesick young man's decision to secretly scatter his girlfriend's father's ashes. Publishers Weekly said When the Nines Roll Over is a "superb collection", that "each one is driven by fully formed characters" and that "it proves that Benioff can handle
1458-501: A year—mostly as a side job that he accepted mainly to spend a year in the countryside at a writer's retreat. He then applied to join the University of California, Irvine 's creative writing program after reading The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon (an alumnus there), and received a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing there in 1999. In 2001, People magazine included Benioff on its list of America's Top 50 Most Eligible Bachelors. As an adult, he began using
1539-603: Is classified among " R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity " and had $ 523.7 million in research and development expenditures in 2021. UCI became a member of the Association of American Universities in 1996. The university administers the UC Irvine Medical Center , a large teaching hospital in Orange , and its affiliated health sciences system ; the University of California, Irvine, Arboretum ; and
1620-578: Is a second cousin of software entrepreneur Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff . University of California, Irvine The University of California, Irvine ( UCI or UC Irvine ) is a public land-grant research university in Irvine, California , United States. One of the ten campuses of the University of California system, UCI offers 87 undergraduate degrees and 129 graduate and professional degrees, and roughly 30,000 undergraduates and 6,000 graduate students were enrolled at UCI as of Fall 2019. The university
1701-483: Is a total of seven short stories. The stories are When the Nines Roll Over , The Devil Comes to Orekhovo , Zoantrophy , The Barefoot Girl in Clover , De Composition , Garden of No , Neversink and Merde for Luck A collection of short stories. The first story, which is the title story ( When the Nines Roll Over ), is about a jaded hipster record executive who is trying to steal a talented and sexy young singer away from
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#17328766453471782-606: Is approximately 20 minutes away by car. While the university is located in Irvine, the campus is directly bounded by the city of Newport Beach and the community of Newport Coast . The western side of the campus borders the San Diego Creek and the San Joaquin Freshwater Marsh Reserve, through which Campus Drive connects UCI to the 405 freeway . The northern and eastern sides of UCI are adjacent to Irvine proper;
1863-686: Is located next to the UCI Arboretum ; both the North Campus and the arboretum are located about 1 mile (2 km) from the main campus. William Pereira's original street layout for the region surrounding the university had a wingnut -shaped loop road as the main thoroughfare, which twice crossed the campus. However, the Irvine Company 's development plans expanded before it could be completed, and portions of California, Carlson, Harvard and Turtle Rock roads today constitute segments of what would have been
1944-538: Is ranked among the nation's top 50 hospitals by U.S. News & World Report for the 12th consecutive year. The school has 19 clinical and 6 basic science departments with 560 full-time and 1,300 volunteer faculty members involved in teaching, patient care, and medical and basic science research. UCI's many research organizations are either chaired by or composed of UCI faculty, frequently draw upon undergraduates and graduates for research assistance, and produce innovations, patents, and scholarly works. Some are housed in
2025-615: The Chicago Sun Times , Richard Roeper wrote that the backlash to the eighth season was so great that he doubted he had "ever seen the level of fan (and to a lesser degree, critical) vitriol leveled at" Game of Thrones . In early August 2019, Benioff and Weiss negotiated an exclusive multi-year film and television deal with Netflix worth $ 200 million. Due to their commitments to Netflix, Benioff and Weiss exited their contract to produce Star Wars films for Disney and Lucasfilm . Benioff's and Weiss's first project on Netflix
2106-519: The Bay Area counties, San Bernardino County , Riverside County , and San Diego County . The most popular major for freshmen is a major in the School of Biological Sciences (22%), followed by Undecided/Undeclared (20.6%), Social Sciences (17.4%), Engineering (11.7%), Humanities (8.8%), Physical Sciences (6.1%), Arts (5%), Social Ecology (5%), Information and Computer Sciences (3%), and Health Sciences (0.2%). The average freshman's incoming high school GPA
2187-726: The Big West Conference . During the early years of the school's existence, the teams played at the NCAA Division II level. The Anteaters have won 28 national championships in nine different team sports, 64 Anteaters have won individual national championships, and 53 Anteaters have competed in the Olympics, winning a total of 33 Olympic medals . As of January 2022, the school has had 3 Nobel Prize laureates, 7 Pulitzer Prize winners, 6 MacArthur "Genius Grant" recipients, 37 Guggenheim Fellows, and 1 Turing Award winner affiliated with
2268-547: The Office of Civil Rights of the United States Department of Education issued a report finding insufficient evidence in support of allegations that Jewish students at UCI were harassed and subjected to a hostile environment based on their religious beliefs. The agency ultimately found that none of the incidents leading to the allegations qualified as "sufficiently severe, pervasive or persistent as to interfere with or limit
2349-623: The Philosophical Gourmet Report , UCI's Department of Philosophy, along with its sister department, the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, ranks 24 in the nation. UCI faculty are affiliated with the following learned societies . UC Irvine is categorized by U.S. News & World Report as "most selective" for college admissions in the United States. It was the third-most selective University of California campus for
2430-672: The U.N. headquarters when he was 16. Benioff is an alumnus of Collegiate School and Dartmouth College . At Dartmouth he was a member of Phi Delta Alpha fraternity and the Sphinx Senior Society . After graduating in 1992 with a B.A in English Literature, he had a number of jobs: for a time as a club bouncer in San Francisco , and as a high school English teacher at Poly Prep in Brooklyn for two years, where he served as
2511-441: The pen name Jacqueline Benioff when his first novel was published in 2001. Benioff is his mother's maiden name . He explained that he did this to avoid confusion with other writers named David Friedman. For legal purposes, his copyright filings from the 2010s onward list him as "David Benioff Friedman". Benioff spent two years writing his first published novel, The 25th Hour , originally titled Fireman Down , and completed
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2592-551: The post-war baby boom . One of the new campuses was to be in the Los Angeles area; the location selected was Irvine Ranch, an area of agricultural land bisecting Orange County from north to south. This site was chosen to accommodate the county's growing population, complement the growth of nearby UCLA and UC Riverside , and allow for the construction of a master planned community in the surrounding area. On June 20, 1964, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson dedicated UC Irvine before
2673-440: The 2023-2024 school year , there were fifteen schools and several interdisciplinary programs. The College of Health Sciences was established in 2004, but no longer exists as a separate academic unit. On November 16, 2006, the University of California Regents approved the establishment of the School of Law. The School of Education was established by the UC Regents in 2012. In 2016, the university announced that it had received
2754-459: The Aldrich Park. Other areas of the university outside of the core campus such as the School of Arts are connected by four pedestrian bridges. Beyond the core campus and the bridges, the layout of the campus is more suburban. Irvine, California consistently ranks as the safest city in the United States. UCI is close to the beaches, mountains, and attractions of Southern California. Disneyland
2835-662: The Central Plant. These tunnels have been the subject of much campus lore, the most popular story being that the tunnels were constructed to facilitate the safe evacuation of faculty in the event of a student riot. The main tunnel actually contains an above-ground section, in the form of the interior of an unusually thick pedestrian bridge near the Engineering Tower, in an area where the Ring Mall crosses between two hills. The tunnels are only accessible to maintenance staff, although there are also publicly accessible tunnels which intersect
2916-746: The Chancellor, the second most senior official is the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, the university's chief academic and operating officer. Every school on campus reports to the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost through a Dean, and all other academic and administrative units report to his office through a Vice Chancellor or chief administrator. A partial list of these units includes Campus Recreation, Intercollegiate Athletics, Planning and Budget, Student Affairs, UC Irvine Libraries, UC Irvine Medical Center, and University Advancement. UC Irvine's academic units are referred to as schools. As of
2997-517: The Humanities Gateway building, designed by Curtis W. Fentress , was opened. Its curvilinear design marked a return to the sculptural treatment of concrete begun by Pereira. As of 2005, the campus has more than 200 buildings and encompasses most of the university's 1,525 acres (6.17 km ). The campus is in the midst of a $ 1.1 billion construction campaign. In addition to holding a noted critical theory archive and Southeast Asian archive,
3078-654: The Libraries also contain extensive collections in Dance and Performing Arts, Regional History, and more. Additionally, Langson Library hosts an extensive East Asian collection with materials in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Nearly all departments and schools on campus complement the resources of the UC Irvine Libraries by maintaining their own reading rooms and scholarly meeting rooms. They contain small reference collections and are
3159-492: The Loop Road. Despite the suburban environment, a variety of wildlife inhabits the university's central park, open fields, and wetlands. The university is home to cougar , hawks , golden eagles , great blue herons , squirrels , opossums , peregrine falcons , rabbits, raccoons , owls , skunks , weasels , bats , and coyotes . The UCI Arboretum hosts a collection of plants from California and Mediterranean climates around
3240-559: The Orange County Medical Center (renamed the UC Irvine Medical Center ) around 12 miles from UC Irvine, in the City of Orange. In early July 2018, UC Irvine removed benefactor Francisco J. Ayala 's name from its biology school and central science library after an internal investigation by the university's Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity substantiated a number of sexual harassment claims. Chancellor Gillman also authorized
3321-412: The U.S., tied for 10th among public universities, tied for 12th in "Top Performers on Social Mobility", tied for 58th in "Most Innovative Schools", and tied for 62nd in "Best Undergraduate Teaching". In 2019, Forbes ranked UCI 3rd out of the 300 Best Value Colleges, based on Return on Investment. In 2017 Kiplinger ranked UCI 26th out of the top 100 best-value public colleges and universities in
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3402-584: The UCI Machine Learning Repository, a data resource which is very popular among machine learning researchers and data mining practitioners. It was created in 1987 and contains 622 datasets from several domains including biology, medicine, physics, engineering, social sciences, games, and others. The datasets contained in the UC Irvine Machine Learning Repository have been used by thousands of students and researchers in
3483-584: The UCI Staff Assembly. Aldrich Park is the site for "Wayzgoose", a medieval student festival held each year in conjunction with the "Celebrate UCI" open house. It also hosts many extracurricular activities. Ring Mall is the main pedestrian road used by students and faculty to travel around the core campus. The road measures up to a perfect mile and completely encircles Aldrich Park. Most schools and libraries are lined up by this road with each of these schools having their own central plaza which also connects to
3564-673: The ability of an individual to participate in from the services, activities or privileges" provided by UCI, and that university officials had acted appropriately in response to each incident. In December 2007, UCI Administration was cleared of anti-semitism complaints by the US Department of Education 's Office for Civil Rights . Following a speech by Chancellor Drake at the national Hillel meeting in Washington, D.C. in March 2008, Anteaters for Israel, along with three other Jewish organizations, issued
3645-425: The book as his thesis for his master's degree at Irvine. He was asked to adapt the book into a screenplay after Tobey Maguire read a preliminary trade copy and became interested in making a film of the book. The film adaptation, 25th Hour , starring Edward Norton , was directed by Spike Lee . In 2004 Benioff published a collection of short stories, When the Nines Roll Over (And Other Stories) . He drafted
3726-418: The choice for more intimate lectures, graduate seminars, and study sessions. There is also the large Gateway Study Center located across from Langson Library, one of the university's original buildings and under the custody of UC Irvine Libraries. Having served formerly as a cafeteria and student center, it is now a dual-use computer lab and study area which is open nearly 24 hours. The UCI Student Center offers
3807-468: The completion of the university rapidly drove the development of Orange County. The City of Irvine became incorporated and established in 1971 and 1975, respectively. UCI remains the second-largest employer in Orange County , with an annual economic impact of $ 5 billion. Aldrich developed the campus's first academic plan around a College of Letters and Science, a Graduate School of Administration, and
3888-501: The computer science community and facilitated the publication of approximately 26 thousand scientific articles. The first fraternities and sororities at UCI began in 1973 with three sororities ( Delta Gamma , Pi Beta Phi , and Gamma Phi Beta ) and three fraternities ( Beta Theta Pi , Sigma Chi , and Phi Delta Theta ). Major events and programs in the Greek Community include Songfest, All Greek Conference, Greek Week, BANG (Being
3969-422: The core campus resembles a rough circle with its center being Aldrich Park (initially known as Campus Park), lined up by the Ring Mall and buildings surrounding the road. To further emphasize the layout, academic units are positioned relative to the center, wherein undergraduate schools are closer to the center than the graduate schools. Aldrich Park is planted with over 11,120 trees (there are over 24,000 trees on
4050-507: The credit on the show. Benioff was given the credit for season 3 episode 3, " Walk of Punishment ", while Weiss was credited with season 4 episode 1, " Two Swords ". They co-directed the series finale, " The Iron Throne ". In October 2007, Universal Pictures hired Benioff to write an adapted screenplay of the Charles R. Cross biography of Kurt Cobain , but the screenplay was not used. In 2008, Benioff's second novel, City of Thieves ,
4131-525: The dominant academic unit at UCI, in contrast to the relatively large colleges at the older UC campuses. In 1967, the California College of Medicine (originally a school of osteopathy founded in 1896 and the oldest continuously operating medical college in the Southwest ) became part of UC Irvine. In 1976, plans to establish an on-campus hospital were set aside, with the university instead purchasing
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#17328766453474212-455: The donation of property to a public entity. On campus, UC Irvine's first Chancellor, Daniel G. Aldrich selected a wide variety of Mediterranean-climate flora and fauna, feeling that it served an "aesthetic, environmental, and educational [purpose]." To plan the remainder of the ranch, the university hired William Pereira and Associates. Pereira intended for the UC Irvine campus to complement
4293-399: The earthy, organic designs of the early buildings. Architects such as Frank Gehry , Robert Venturi , Eric Owen Moss , James Stirling and Arthur Erickson were brought in to bring the campus more up to date. The recession in the early 1990s along with internal politics led to a change in direction, due to the reduced capital budget, and changing attitudes towards architectural innovation at
4374-663: The eastern side of the campus is delineated by Bonita Canyon Road, which turns into Culver Drive at its northern terminus. California State Route 73 marks UCI's southern boundary and separates the campus from Newport Beach. The "North Campus" houses the Facilities Management Department, the Faculty Research Facility, Central Receiving, Fleet Services, the Air Pollution Health Effects Laboratory, and numerous other functions. It
4455-401: The entire campus), including 33 species of eucalyptus. Two ceremonial trees were planted in 1990, one for Arbor Day and the second for former chancellor Daniel Aldrich who had died that year. On the first anniversary of the September 11th tragedies, the chancellor planted a bay laurel tree in remembrance of the heroes and victims of the events of September 11, 2001. The tree itself was a gift from
4536-622: The faculty through the Academic Senate. The Chancellor is the chief campus officer and has authority over the campus budget. The Academic Senate has authority to determine the conditions for admission and supervise courses and curricula. The Chancellor is nominated by and is responsible to the Regents of the University of California and the UC President. UCI's Chancellors are listed below: After
4617-436: The film not only began slow but stopped altogether. According to Kasey Moore, it has been years since anyone once known to be involved with Dirty White Boys , has given an update on the project's status. In July 2017, Benioff announced that he and Weiss would produce another HBO series, Confederate , after the final season of Game of Thrones . Benioff and Weiss said, "We have discussed Confederate for years, originally as
4698-482: The freshman class entering in the fall of 2019, as measured by the ratio of admitted students to applicants (behind UC Berkeley and UCLA ). UC Irvine received 119,210 applications for admission to the fall 2022 incoming freshman class and 25,213 were admitted, making UC Irvine's acceptance rate 21% for fall 2022. The first-year median weighted GPA was 4.22 for fall 2022. The incoming 2018 freshmen were predominantly from Los Angeles County , followed by Orange County ,
4779-459: The headquarters of the University of California Office of Federal Governmental Relations and supports UC students interning in the District of Columbia. UC Washington Center is currently led by UC Santa Cruz economist Helen Shapiro. Like other University of California campuses, UC Irvine operates under a system of shared governance, or a partnership between the Chancellor and his administration and
4860-647: The long and the short of the fiction game." David Benioff David Friedman ( / ˈ f r iː d m ə n / ; born September 25, 1970), known professionally as David Benioff ( / ˈ b ɛ n i ɒ f / ), is an American writer and producer. Along with his collaborator D. B. Weiss , he is best known for co-creating Game of Thrones (2011–2019), the HBO adaptation of George R. R. Martin 's series of books A Song of Ice and Fire . He also wrote 25th Hour (2002), Troy (2004), City of Thieves (2008) and co-wrote X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009). Benioff
4941-815: The nation, and 5th in California. In 2018, Sierra Magazine ranked UCI 1st in its "Coolest Schools" in America list for campus sustainability and climate change efforts. In addition, many of UCI's graduate programs are ranked in the top 50 of the 2020 U.S. News & World Report rankings: literary criticism and theory (1), criminology (3), organic chemistry (10), English (17), chemistry (20), sociology (23), computer science (30), physics (28), psychology (36), law (21), education (24), biological sciences (33), earth sciences (41), history (34), engineering (35), business part-time MBA (32), political science (45), mathematics (39), medicine-research (46), and economics (47). According to
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#17328766453475022-408: The neighboring community, and it became clear that the original 1,000 acres (400 ha) grant would not suffice. In 1964, the university purchased an additional 510 acres (210 ha) in 1964 for housing and commercial developments. Much of the land that was not purchased by UCI (which is now occupied by the cities of Irvine, Tustin , and Newport Beach ) remains held by The Irvine Company , but
5103-463: The removal of the Ayala name from graduate fellowships, scholar programs, and endowed chairs. Ayala resigned July 1, 2018 and was ordered to abstain from future university activities, following the university's consultative procedures that include a faculty review committee. The results from the investigation were compiled in a 97-page report, which included testimony from victims of Ayala. The layout of
5184-457: The school's wrestling coach. Benioff became interested in an academic career and went to Trinity College, Dublin (TCD), in 1995, for a one-year program to study Irish literature. In Dublin he met D. B. Weiss , who later became his collaborator. Benioff wrote a thesis on Samuel Beckett at Trinity College, but decided against a career in academia. He worked as a radio DJ in Moose, Wyoming , for
5265-536: The screenplay for the X-Men spin-off X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009). He based his script on Barry Windsor-Smith 's " Weapon X " story, Chris Claremont and Frank Miller 's 1982 limited series on the character , as well as the 2001 limited series Origin . Hugh Jackman collaborated on the script, which he wanted to be more of a character piece than the previous X-Men films. Fox later hired Skip Woods to revise and rewrite Benioff's script. Benioff had aimed for
5346-564: The traditional high school academic record, personal statement, and entrance examination scores. While residency is not a factor in admission, it is a factor in tuition expenses, with out-of-state residents fees much greater than California residents. Since the approval of Proposition 209 in November 1996, California state law has prohibited all public universities (including UC Irvine) from practicing affirmative action as part of their admissions processes. The University of California Irvine hosts
5427-554: The transition of the former Program in Public health to the Joseph C Wen School of Population and Public Health, named for the donor and his family. Supplementary education programs offer accelerated or community education in the form of Summer Session and UC Irvine Extension. The academic units consist of (with their founding in parentheses): The School of Medicine constitute the professional schools of health science. UC Irvine Medical Center
5508-463: The university as alumni, faculty or researchers. The University of California, Irvine (with San Diego and Santa Cruz ) was one of three new University of California campuses established in the 1960s under the California Master Plan for Higher Education . During the 1950s, the University of California saw the need for the new campuses to handle the expected increase in enrollment from
5589-409: The university. This, in turn, led to a "contextualist" approach beginning in the late 1990s combining stylistic elements of the first two phases in an attempt to provide an architectural "middle ground" between the two vastly different styles. Gehry's building was recently removed from campus to make way for a new building, with a design that has been called a "big beige box with bands of bricks". In 2009
5670-609: The utility tunnels, such as the one that goes between the main Information & Computer Science building and the Engineering Tower. The University of California, Irvine, created the University of California, Washington Center ( UCDC ) program in 1982. It is a student program of the university, located on Scott Circle in Downtown Washington ( 38°54′23.4″N 77°2′14″W / 38.906500°N 77.03722°W / 38.906500; -77.03722 ). The center serves as
5751-453: The world. The rabbits in particular can be seen across campus in high numbers, especially during hours of low student traffic. The first buildings were designed by a team of architects led by William Pereira and including A. Quincy Jones and William Blurock. The initial landscaping, including Aldrich Park, was designed by an association of three firms, including that of the noted urban-landscaping innovator Robert Herrick Carter. Aldrich Park
5832-536: Was 3.95. The average SAT scores were 602 (Critical Reasoning), 640 (Mathematics), and 612 (Writing), while the ACT composite score was 26. SAT verbal scores for the middle 50% were 550 and 660, while SAT math scores ranged between 580 and 700. The choice to offer admission is based on the University of California's comprehensive review program, which considers a candidate's personal situation, community involvement, extracurricular activities, and academic potential in addition to
5913-473: Was Hinderaker who came up with the idea "to appoint deans with strong authority for each of the divisions and to give them as much freedom as possible in determining the internal organization of their divisions". In 1967, the UCI Academic Senate voted to redesignate the divisions as "schools", with all their deans reporting directly to the vice chancellor for academic affairs. This is why schools became
5994-680: Was born David Friedman in New York City , the youngest of three children in a Jewish family with ancestral roots in Austria, Romania, Germany, Poland and Russia. He is the son of Barbara (née Benioff) and Stephen Friedman , a former head of Goldman Sachs . He has two older sisters, Suzy and Caroline, and grew up in Manhattan , first in Peter Cooper Village , then on 86th Street where he spent most of his childhood, before eventually moving near
6075-451: Was designed under the direction of landscape architect Gene Uematsu, and was modeled after Frederick Law Olmsted 's designs for New York City's Central Park . The campus opened in 1965 with the inner circle and park only half-completed. There were only nine buildings and a dirt road connecting the main campus to the housing units. Only three of the six "spokes" that radiate from the central park were built, with only two buildings each. Pereira
6156-503: Was not named for the city it was built in; at the time of the university's founding (1965), the current city of Irvine (incorporated in 1971) did not exist. The name "Irvine" is a reference to James Irvine , a landowner who administered the 94,000-acre (38,000 ha) Irvine Ranch. In 1960, The Irvine Company sold 1,000 acres (400 ha) of the Irvine Ranch to the University of California for one dollar, since company policy prohibited
6237-451: Was published. In April 2014, Benioff announced he and Weiss had taken on their first feature film project to write, produce, and direct Dirty White Boys , based on a novel by Stephen Hunter . 21st Century Fox greenlit pre-production on the movie even though at the time, both producers had significant contractual obligations for other projects. Though it was assumed development on Dirty White Boys would proceed slowly, promotion for
6318-417: Was put into development by HBO in 2007 and the series greenlit in 2010. Benioff and Weiss acted as the show's executive producers, showrunners , and writers. It began airing on HBO in 2011. Benioff and Weiss had previously worked together on a script for a horror film titled The Headmaster , but it was never made. They also directed three episodes of Game of Thrones , flipping a coin to decide who would get
6399-518: Was retained by the university to maintain a continuity of style among the buildings constructed in the inner ring around the park, the last of which was completed in 1974. These buildings were designed with the appearance of being displayed on "pedestals" (containing the first floor and basement levels) that elevated them above the rolling terrain, with distinctive white railings evoking the deck of an ocean liner. They additionally feature an elevated second pedestrian level above ground, originally intended as
6480-419: Was the final year UCI was eligible for this ranking. UCI's graduate philosophy program ranks among the finest worldwide, according to the Philosophical Gourmet Report , with the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science jointly achieving a 28th position in global rankings. For 2024, U.S. News & World Report ranked UC Irvine tied for 33rd among national universities in
6561-480: Was to direct the stand-up comedy special Leslie Jones : Time Machine . In September 2020, it was announced that Benioff, Weiss and Alexander Woo will write and executive produce a Netflix series based on The Three-Body Problem trilogy. On September 30, 2006, Benioff married actress Amanda Peet in a traditional Jewish ceremony in New York City . They have three children. The family divides their time between homes in Manhattan and Beverly Hills . He
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