Reines Lecture at UC Irvine: UCLA astronomer and Nobel laureate Andrea Ghez

EVENT: 2024 Reines Lecture: “From the possibility to the certainty of a supermassive black hole” WHEN/WHERE: 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 12, Irvine Barclay Theater, UC Irvine campus. INFORMATION: Media planning to attend should contact Brian Bell at 949-565-5533 or bpbell@uci.edu. Attendance and parking are complimentary for media who RSVP in advance. BACKGROUND: The 2024 Reines […]

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UCI School of Biological Sciences to host lecture on Alzheimer’s

Five experts will discuss past, present and future of the disease

Humanities dean Tyrus Miller establishes endowment for distinguished lecture series

Tyrus Miller, dean of the School of Humanities, has pledged $60,000 to establish a new endowment for a distinguished lecture series. The school regularly hosts conversations around today’s grand challenges, ranging from environmental change to advances in medicine and biology and the evolution of powerful new technologies. The Dean’s Distinguished Lecture Series will feature events […]

British astrophysicist who discovered pulsars delivers the 2019 Reines Lecture to full house

Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, visiting professor at the University of Oxford and chancellor of Scotland’s University of Dundee, enthralled a capacity audience in the Irvine Barclay Theatre on the UCI campus Tuesday night as she delivered the 2019 Reines Lecture. Bell Burnell, named dame commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2007, recounted […]

Ezra Klein, Vox co-founder and editor-at-large, to deliver Peltason Lecture at UCI

EVENT:  Ezra Klein, editor-at-large and one of the founders of Vox, the award-winning news and opinion website, will speak on identity politics at UCI’s 16th Peltason Lecture. WHEN/WHERE:   4-5:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 7, in Pacific Ballroom D in the Student Center (bldg. 113, grid D5 on campus map: https://www.parking.uci.edu/maps/documents/UCI-CampusCore_2018.pdf), followed by a reception. INFORMATION:  The […]

A guest lecturer with gravitas

Chancellor Howard Gillman, an expert on free speech, addresses literary journalism class studying it

UCI to mark Stem Cell Awareness Day with Oct. 30 lab tour, lecture

Talk will address intersection of politics and science, need to renew research funding

Laureate lectures

Nobel Prize recipient Mario Molina returns to UCI to talk about the history of climate change science

Jeff Johnston with son Shane and fellow Lecturer Timothy Tift

Jeff Johnston named UCI Lecturer of the Year

The Council on Student Experience and the Division of Undergraduate Education recently selected Jeff Johnston as UCI’s 2015 Lecturer of the Year.

UCI Interdisciplinary Center on Family Violence to host Jacquelyn Campbell lecture

EVENT: In the inaugural lecture for the UC Irvine Interdisciplinary Center on Family Violence, Jacquelyn Campbell, a national leader in research and advocacy regarding intimate-partner violence, will present a broad-based approach to addressing domestic violence and preventing homicide. WHEN/WHERE: 5-7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 24, in UC Irvine School of Law, Building Edu 1111, Social Sciences […]