Month: January 2012

UC Irvine News Brief: Seymour Menton awarded Mexico's highest honor for foreigners

The UCI professor emeritus of Spanish & Portuguese was given the Order of the Aztec Eagle for his teaching and dissemination of Mexican literature and culture in the U.S., Latin America and many parts of Europe since 1948.

UCI sets new record for applications

Fall 2012 numbers near 70,000, a 10 percent increase over last year.

UC Irvine News Brief: Men's volleyball team ranked No. 1 in the nation

After winning the UC Santa Barbara Tournament title last weekend, coach John Speraw’s Anteaters took the top spot this week in the American Volleyball Coaches Association poll.

MLK Symposium

Politician Willie Brown will deliver the Dr. Joseph L. White Lecture as part of UC Irvine’s 29th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium. His talk, “California & Our Nation,” will highlight four days of activities honoring King’s legacy.

Ten for ’12

It was a good year to be an Anteater sports fan in 2011, and 2012 promises to be the same, if not better. Here are 10 stories to follow.

UC Irvine News Brief: 'Mathemagician' Arthur Benjamin to perform on campus Thursday

At the free event, which is open to the public, he will demonstrate and explain his ability to compute more quickly than a calculator, among other feats.

It’s all Greek to him

Stergios Skaperdas says its time for Greece to drop the Euro.

Alice Hernandez-Gaona

A brush with ovarian cancer

Artist treated at UC Irvine Medical Center plans to be among the 30 percent who beat the odds.

Sgt. Frank Sandoval, with his daughter Joelena, on the way to surgery

In the wake of war

New UCI lecturer brings first-hand experience photographing Iraq to a new course on the public health effects of war.

Ryan Sharpe

Playing the pain away

Alumnus Ryan Sharpe helps hospitalized kids cope via video games.