UC Irvine News Brief: Kenyan dignitary talks sustainable agriculture with UCI researchers

Parliament member Peter Mwathi met with William Cooper, director of UCI’s Urban Water Research Center, and visited the Center for Hydrometeorology & Remote Sensing and the UC Center for Hydrologic Modeling.

Richard Matthew (left), UCI professor of urban planning and public policy, Alec Glasser (center), founder and CEO of The Drake Gives and Jon Gould (right), dean of UCI’s School of Social Ecology.

The Drake Gives contributes $1.5 million to UC Irvine’s Power of Music initiative

New School of Social Ecology effort will leverage music for social good

Claudia Flores, B.S. in mechanical engineering

#IamUCI – Claudia Flores

Q&A with Class of 2022 graduate Claudia Flores, B.S. in mechanical engineering

Students gathered at the Center for Black Cultures, Resources & Research

Black History Month

Recognizing Black groundbreakers in the Anteater community

UCI Podcast: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

The acclaimed writer shares the tale of his prison captivity and writing the influential novel, Devil on the Cross

Ngugi wa Thiong’o receives honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of Edinburgh

Ngugi wa Thiong’o, UCI Distinguished Professor of comparative literature and English, was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters by Scotland’s University of Edinburgh on July 8. He was presented to the university’s academic senate by Thomas Molony of the School of Social & Political Science, who recognized the Kenyan author’s significant leadership in shifting the […]

Distinguished Professor Ngugi wa Thiong’o wins 2019 Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize

Ngugi wa Thiong’o, UCI Distinguished Professor of comparative literature and English, has been awarded the 2019 Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize for Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature, about language and its constructive role in national culture, history and identity. The collection of essays advocates for linguistic decolonization and is one […]

On the hunt … for new knowledge

With scholarship support, chemistry grad student Jessica Kelz probes the secrets of carnivorous plants

UCI ecologist co-authors UN Environment report on impact of plastics on coral reefs

The global fight against ocean plastic pollution will come into sharp focus at the fourth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly this month in Nairobi, Kenya, with Joleah Lamb, assistant professor of ecology & evolutionary biology at UCI, making a key contribution. Lamb, who studies how diseases affect coral reefs, is co-author of a […]

Crowdfunding site powers passion projects

Students from the UCI School of Medicine have traveled across the globe to provide much-needed medical education to the people of Kenya, Panama, Indonesia, Tanzania and other countries. Instead of being fully funded through government or foundation grants, however, part of this work is being supported by fellow students, faculty, friends and community members through […]