Month: May 2011

UC Irvine oncologist launches journal on care of adolescent and young adult patients

Dr. Leonard Sender believes adolescents and young adults with cancer often receive the wrong treatment. Sender and a new journal support changes in cancer care may improve currently stagnant survival rates.

Photograph of architects Ray Watson, William Pereira and an unidentified man with a schematic of UCI

Libraries exhibit traces Irvine’s evolution

UCI Libraries’ spring exhibit chronicles city’s conversion from farmland to model planned community.

Breanna Downey

From cradle to commencement, graduate comes full circle

When Breanna Downey dons a cap and gown and walks across the stage to collect her diploma at UCI’s commencement, she will have come full circle. Downey has made the trip before – when she was a towheaded toddler and her mother graduated with the class of 1991.

The Student Center Bell Tower

UCI rings in new set of campus bells

For the first time in UCI history, the sound of stately gongs emanated from the Student Center Bell Tower, playing — more or less — at 10 a.m. and again at 10:10 a.m. Thursday, May 5, in honor of the class of 2010, which raised $8,538.82 for the carillon system.

UC Irvine News Brief: CIRM awards $25 million for first-ever human clinical trial of stem cell-derived therapy

The treatment for people with spinal cord injury was created in the lab of UCI neurobiologist Hans Keirstead.

Students give others an (alternative) break

While their peers party on, some UCI students spend spring vacation working on various service projects, from planting a garden at a Native American reservation in San Diego County to putting the shine on the Golden Gate national park in San Francisco.

Dalai Lama speaks to sold-out crowd at UCI

Visit by Tibetan spiritual leader marks seventh anniversary of UCI scholarship carrying his name.

Social sciences dean Barbara Dosher elected to National Academy of Sciences

UCI faculty now boasts 26 members of the prestigious organization.

UC Irvine News Brief: John C. Avise elected to American Philosophical Society

Distinguished Professor of ecology & evolutionary biology joins slightly more than 1,000 members of group founded in 1745 by Benjamin Franklin to promote useful knowledge in the sciences and humanities.

Computer Mouse sitting atop books

UCI undergrads get lots of online options

The largest online enrollment in UC system flourishes from strong partnerships across the campus.