Duncan Pritchard, Distinguished Professor of philosophy, and Chancellor’s Fellow Annalisa Coliva, professor and chair of philosophy

MOOCS with a message

UCI faculty create massive open online courses to counter extremism

AMC, Instructure and UCI to offer multidisciplinary MOOC based on ‘The Walking Dead’

AMC, Instructure and the UC Irvine today announced the joint production of a massive open online course exploring a broad range of scholarly topics through the lens of a hypothetical zombie apocalypse.

Online learning: How it defines education for students of all ages

Forbes, July 28, 2020 (Contributor)

2019 Year in Review

Robots and Rubik’s Cubes. March Madness and Middle Earth. Squid-inspired space blankets and Shakespeare on trial. In 2019, UCI had yet another remarkable run of scientific discoveries, creative splashes, medical breakthroughs and academic feats. The men’s basketball team won its first-ever game in the NCAA tournament. UCI’s stellar blend of educational excellence and accessibility dethroned Princeton University as the No. 1 campus on Money magazine’s list […]

Conversation Kitchen workshop's Jessica Vanroo

8 faculty-led projects funded under UCI Confronting Extremism initiative

Areas of focus are science denialism, our common humanity and critical thinking

Trump names UCI business professor Peter Navarro to lead trade council

Peter Navarro, a professor of economics in the University of California, Irvine’s Paul Merage School of Business, was selected Wednesday, Dec. 21, by President-elect Donald Trump to oversee a newly created White House National Trade Council. Described by many as a “China hawk,” Navarro wrote Death by China: How America Lost its Manufacturing Base, and produced an […]

Unconventional Instruction

Innovative teachers shake up traditional lectures to engage students and improve learning

Highlights of 2013 at UCI

Year brings scientific advances, national accolades, international outreach, student achievement … and zombies

The spooky side of science

In the spirit of Halloween, we offer a witches’ brew of peculiar probes and freaky findings by UCI researchers

UCI co-hosting Calit2 symposium on open learning

Leaders in technology and education will convene Sept. 26 and 27 at the California Institute for Telecommunications & Information Technology on the UC Irvine campus for a symposium on open learning systems and the future of higher education.