Year: 2012

UC Irvine News Brief: UCI's OpenCourseWare initiative wins wide-ranging recognition

Just five years after launching the program – which makes high-quality, university-level classes available for free online – the university has captured five prestigious awards.

Social Sciences Series

Jan. 25 talk will focus on role politics, policies and markets must play in turning around the global economy.

Jesse Catlin

The marketing of meds

Doctoral candidate in marketing at The Paul Merage School of Business studies how consumers select over-the-counter drugs.

Dan Cooper

Motion promotion

UCI center explores, extols health benefits of exercise in childhood

Using water to predict fire

UCI researchers can forecast wildfires using sea surface temperatures.

Spotlighting South Korean cinema

UCI professor who studies the films of his homeland finds a fan in Martin Scorsese.

Scott Bollens

Conflicts of interest

Urban planning professor studies cities polarized by ethnic, political and religious differences.

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.