Kika Friend engages with a student from C.A.M.P.

CAMP counselor

Kika Friend helps prepare students in UCI’s California Alliance Minority Participation program for careers in math and science.

Carla Plaza

Against all odds

No one can tell Carla Plaza she hasn’t earned the right to a college education. The 35-year-old senior in biochemistry & molecular biology at UC Irvine is months away from getting a bachelor’s degree — the first in her family to do so — and taking another step toward her childhood dream of becoming a […]

Kenneth C. Janda and Joel Rivera

One unlikely pair leads to another: fire and ice

Dean Ken Janda and undergrad work together on novel research.