Coronavirus USA: What Barack And Michelle Obama Said About Wisconsin Voting During Outbreak

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UCI to host College Signing Day rally May 1, with livestream of Michelle Obama

EVENT: UCI will welcome 1,100 local high school students at the Bren Events Center for the 2019 College Signing Day rally. May 1 is the deadline for high school seniors to accept college admission offers for fall. Former first lady Michelle Obama’s Reach Higher initiative is hosting a College Signing Day event across the entire University of […]

Vicki Ruiz

Vicki Ruiz receives National Humanities Medal from President Obama

Honor recognizes nation’s top change-makers in history, literature, languages

Vicki Ruiz to receive National Humanities Medal from President Obama

Honor recognizes nation’s top change-makers in history, literature, languages

Obama to announce action on immigration

President Barack Obama is expected to announce at 8 p.m. Eastern time Thursday, Nov. 20, that he will use his executive authority to expand temporary protections to millions of undocumented immigrants. The following UC Irvine experts are available to comment: Leo Chavez, professor of anthropology, has studied immigration for more than 25 years. He has […]

UCI neurobiologist Ivan Soltesz to receive research support from President Obama’s BRAIN Initiative

Ivan Soltesz, Chancellor’s Professor and chair of anatomy & neurobiology at UC Irvine, is among some 100 researchers being honored Sept. 30 at a White House ceremony for the BRAIN Initiative.

President Obama celebrates class of 2014

He punctuates speech on climate change with hearty “Zot! Zot! Zot!”

President Obama to speak at UC Irvine commencement celebration

A student-produced video invitation including a challenge to “play ball” with UC Irvine’s seven-feet-six-inch center Mamadou Ndiaye, and 10,000 postcards signed by Anteaters of all stripes involved the entire campus in the effort to woo the president.

NCAA championship volleyball team with Obama

Obama offers shout-out to ‘volleyball-playing Anteaters’

Alumni from three of UCI’s four NCAA championship teams gather for White House celebration

Obama to honor UCI men's volleyball champs

Irvine, Calif., March 10, 2014 – A delegation representing UC Irvine’s last three men’s volleyball national championships will join a celebration  honoring NCAA champions at the White House today at approximately 1:15 p.m. PT. The delegation will include Chancellor Michael Drake and Athletics Director Michael Izzi, who will invite the president to be keynote commencement […]