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UC Santa Barbara
• U.S. News & World Report has ranked UC Santa Barbara
as one of the
top-10 public schools in the nation in its 2012 Best Colleges
guide.
• UCSB is one of just 61 elected members of the prestigious
Association
of American Universities, a select group of research-intensive
institutions
in the United States and Canada.
• UCSB’s faculty includes five Nobel Laureates from
the fields of physics,
chemistry and economics. In addition, an aluma of the
school’s College of
Creative Studies won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or
Medicine.
Famous UCSB
Alumni
• Jack
Johnson – Grammy nominated musician, singer and
songwriter.
• Michael
Douglas – Academy Award winning actor and son of
Kirk Douglas.
• Michael
Young – Six-time Major League Baseball All-Star,
2006 MLB
All-Star Game MVP,
Gold Glove Award winner, American League Batting
Champion and 2010
MLB Man of the Year.
• Jeff
Henley – Chairman of Oracle Corporation.
• Robert
Ballard – Renowned Oceanographer and discoverer of
the wreckage
from the
Titanic.
• Todd
Rogers – Olympic Gold medalist in men’s beach
volleyball and
member of the
three-time Team of the Year on the AVP Tour.
• Jason
Lezak – Four-time Olympic Gold Medalist and
seven-time
Olympic Medalist
swimmer in 2000, 2004 and 2008.
• Carin
Jennings Gabarra – Olympic gold medalist in
women’s soccer and
MVP of the U.S.
National Team that won the first Women’s World
Cup.
• Leroy
Chiao – Astronaut who has served on 10 Columbia,
Endeavour,
Discovery and
Expedition shuttles.
• Joe
Acaba – Astronaut
• Jose
Hernandez – Astronaut
• Jim
Rome – Nationally syndicated sports talk show host
and host of his own
show on CBS
Sports Network.
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Cal Poly
• U.S. News & World Report has ranked Cal Poly as the
top
regional public college in
the Western United States in its 2012
Best Colleges guide. Cal Poly has achieved the ranking for 20
straight years.
• Cal Poly’s College of Engineering was ranked No. 2
among
public engineering programs for schools whose highest
degree is a bachelor’s or master’s.
• The job readiness of Cal Poly graduates has landed the
school
atop the rankings in Aviation Week’s Workforce Study
of
“go-to” universities. Aviation Week and Space
Technology’s
annual study has been a mainstay for aerospace and
defense industry recruitment, planning and trend analysis since
1997.
Famous Cal Poly Alumni
• John Madden – Legendary Super
Bowl-winning head
coach of the Oakland Raiders and television football
commentator.
• Farzad Nazem – Chief Technology
Officer of Yahoo!
• Peter Oppenheimer – Senior Vice
President and Chief
Financial Officer of Apple Computer.
• Stephanie Brown Trafton – Olympic
gold medalist in the discus.
• Ozzie Smith – Major League Baseball
Hall of Fame Shortstop.
• Mike Krukow – Former Major League
pitcher and current
broadcaster for the San Francisco Giants.
• Chuck Liddell – Former Ultimate
Fighting Championship
Light Heavyweight Champion.
• “Weird Al” Yankovic –
Grammy nominated musician,
songwriter and rock parodist.
• Greg Chamitoff – Astronaut
• Robert L. Gibson – Astronaut
• Fredrick W. Sturckow - Astronaut
• Harvey Levin – Producer, lawyer,
legal analyst and
investigative reporter. Currently managing editor of
TMZ.com.
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