Pramod Khargonekar (left), UCI vice chancellor for research and UCI’s Chief Innovation Officer Errol Arkilic (right).

UCI launches climate action innovation hub with $1 million state grant

Program will leverage regional strengths to help California reach its climate goals

Democracy in action

UCI’s Louis DeSipio and David Meyer put presidential politics into perspective

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 […]

Gloria Guzman, on the monitor, translates for nurse Danielle Lawson and a patient

Hospital tests video translation service

UC Irvine Medical Center tests remote medical interpretation for patients with limited English proficiency.

Martin Luther King Jr.

MLK week: a call to action

UCI’s 26th annual celebration of civil rights leader encourages activism, service.

UCI named Climate Action Leader for measuring its greenhouse gasses

When UC Irvine joined the California Climate Action Registry last year, two staff members, Fred Bockmiller and Erin Lane, set…

Fire sparks action

UCI student Lori Chiu leads Alternative Break effort to aid fire-devastated La Jolla Indian Reservation

Anteater in action

Undergraduate Ariana Antonio helps those in need through the Center for Service in Action

Woman of action

Dedra Butler ’99 helps student-athletes become CHAMPS

Building better lives

When four members of the UC Irvine student chapter of Engineers Without Borders headed to Endana, Kenya, last August to see how they could best help the rural community, it proved to be a real-life pass/fail test in leadership. “We didn’t know what we were getting into,” recalls Morgan Bailey, EWB chapter president and a doctoral candidate […]