Stigma Hampers Iraqi Efforts to Fight the Coronavirus

The New York Times, April 14, 2020

Susan Lewis, Sam Lam and Lauren Gruber

Law students help Iraqi refugees trapped in legal limbo

UCI law students have joined efforts to help Iraqi refugees trapped in a legal limbo. The displaced can’t go home again, but resettling in the U.S. or another welcoming country can take months or years of complicated paperwork.

UCI students reach out to Iraqi kids

In three years, UCI’s Baghdad School Project has shipped 7,500 packets of notebooks, pencils, erasers and rulers to schoolchildren in…

UCI reaches out to Iraqi schoolchildren

UCI students fill a need not met by traditional relief workers in Iraq – providing school supplies to children.

Dr. Clarence E. Foster III

Doctor back from Iraq

Transplant surgeon Dr. Clarence E. Foster III recently traded the convenience of UC Irvine Medical Center’s modern operating rooms for the treacherous and harsh environs of war-torn Iraq, where he performed life-saving trauma surgery on injured soldiers and civilians and cared for the health of detainees.

Photograph of Roxane Cohen Silver, UCI Distinguished Professor of psychological science, medicine and public health
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UCI Podcast: Managing media intake amid traumatic times

Roxane Cohen Silver on how graphic images from catastrophic events depicted in the news may affect health

United States Marine Corps veteran and UCI sociology alumnus Andrew Truong ’23 (fourth from right), pictured with fellow service members.

Giving voice to veterans

UCI certificate program comprises three courses exploring experiences of service members

Michael Yassa's lab.

Stemming the Rising Mental Health Crisis

UCI researchers help illuminate the complexities of the mind and find solutions to prevent a twin pandemic

At the 9/11 Memorial at New York City’s rebuilt World Trade Center, a rose adorns the edge of a reflecting pool. The effects of that day’s terrorist attacks are still being felt 20 years later.

How 9/11 changed America

UCI scholars offer insights into how the terrorist attacks continue to impact health, travel, politics and the media

The UCI ROTC color guard participates in the 2019 Veterans Day ceremony at the campus flagpoles.

Veterans’ voices

UCI is the nation’s only top research university to offer a certificate program on those who’ve served in the military