Day: April 1, 2010

UC Irvine News Brief: Henry Pontell

Henry Pontell, professor of sociology and criminology, law & society, has been named Green Honors Chair at Texas Christian University.

The entertainer

Ragtime — that bright, toe-tapping piano music that flourished in bars, brothels and parlor rooms in the early 1900s — has found an unlikely promoter and practitioner at UC Irvine: a young civil engineering student named Jared DiBartolomeo. DiBartolomeo belongs to a generation that worships technology, was raised on rap and is addicted to keyboards […]

Fountain pen next to writing

Well versed

“Do not say anything against rhyme! It is a mighty goddess indeed, the deity of very secret and very ancient coincidences, and one must never let the fires on its altars burn out.” — Rainer Maria Rilke They are small in number, the writers who have come to UC Irvine to study poetry through the master’s-level Programs […]

Port-au-Prince hours after earthquake.

From the ground up

It took scarcely 35 seconds Jan. 12 for a magnitude 7.0 earthquake to cripple Haiti, flattening its capital and killing more than 200,000 people, but it will take many years for the island nation to recover. While devastating quakes have since struck in Chile, Japan and elsewhere, Haiti’s situation is unique. Desperately poor before the […]

UC Irvine News Brief: Roxane Cohen Silver

Roxane Cohen Silver, professor of psychology & social behavior, is in Chile this week to assist in earthquake recovery efforts and oversee the design of psychological interventions.

UC Irvine Advisory: American Indian Lecture

UCI to kick off Distinguished American Indian Lecture Series with a talk on the history of Indian casino gaming and its impact on economic sovereignty.