Highlights of 2013 at UCI

Year brings scientific advances, national accolades, international outreach, student achievement … and zombies

The spooky side of science

In the spirit of Halloween, we offer a witches’ brew of peculiar probes and freaky findings by UCI researchers

AMC, Instructure and UCI to offer multidisciplinary MOOC based on ‘The Walking Dead’

AMC, Instructure and the UC Irvine today announced the joint production of a massive open online course exploring a broad range of scholarly topics through the lens of a hypothetical zombie apocalypse.

Walking Dead MOOC professors

Academics take on zombies

Offered through Instructure, the free, eight-week MOOC will explore subjects related to math, public health, social science and physics

A “mathlete” competes in Mathcounts regionals

UCI hosts middle school ‘mathletes’

Students exercise their computational skills in regional round of nationwide competition.

UCI gets $1.9 million to create undergraduate math, computation program

The National Science Foundation has awarded UC Irvine $1.9 million over five years to develop a new undergraduate education and…