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• University of California, San Diego is a public research university that is one of ten schools in the University of California higher education system.

• Fast Facts

  1. Established: 1960
  2. Location: La Jolla, San Diego, CA
  3. Chancellor: [Marye Anne Fox]
  4. Faculty: Approximately 1,470
  5. Student enrollment: 27,500UC San Diego: About
  6. Mascot: Tritons
  7. Motto: "Fiat Lux" (Latin for "Let there be light")
  8. [http: //www.weatherunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=San+Diego+California Current Weather]
  9. Twenty-three varsity athletic teams

• The Scripps Institution

  UC San Diego has its origins in the early 20th century when zoologists at UC Berkeley wanted to establish a marine station on the Pacific ocean.

  In 1909, land in La Jolla was donated by E. W. Scripps and E. B. Scripps. The facility was called the Scripps Institution of Marine Biology. In 1960, when the Regents decided to name the general campus the University of California, San Diego, they voted that the Scripps school be known as University of California's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla.

  The institution is known as the foremost center of oceanographic research and instruction in the world.University of California: Archives

• The Campus

  The UC San Diego campus is located on 1,200 acres of coastal woodland overlooking the Pacific ocean.

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