Students earn Living Our Values Award for launching UCI Global Brigades
Students earn Living Our Values Award for launching UCI Global Brigades, which aims to improve the lives of Hondurans through hands-on projects.
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Foot soldiers in the war on poverty
Students who volunteer with Global Brigades work in the trenches – sometimes literally – to make the world a better place
Helping in Honduras
Student volunteers with UCI Global Brigades participate in public health, sanitation projects.
Building better lives
When four members of the UC Irvine student chapter of Engineers Without Borders headed to Endana, Kenya, last August to see how they could best help the rural community, it proved to be a real-life pass/fail test in leadership. “We didn’t know what we were getting into,” recalls Morgan Bailey, EWB chapter president and a doctoral candidate […]
2010 a year of challenges, achievement at UCI
In the past year, UC Irvine students, staff and faculty have stepped up in the face of continuing budget challenges and fee increases with innovation, drive and talent. The result? Research breakthroughs, national honors, global outreach, sports firsts – even a Guinness world record. Here are some top 2010 stories.
UCI group tours India, meets Dalai Lama
Students experience Tibetan culture, meet Dalai Lama in 18-day trek through India.