Come celebrate UCI’s 50th Anniversary at the first-ever Festival of Discovery and Anteater 5K & Family Fun Run on Saturday, Oct. 3. The festival will offer something for everyone, including live music, food trucks, interactive demos, hands-on displays, athletic clinics, TEDx talks and more. Runners will race through the decades for the ultimate throwback. Participants […]
The New York Times has named UCI No. 1 among U.S. universities that do the most for low-income students. The 2015 rankings were presented at The New York Times’ Schools for Tomorrow conference by David Leonhardt, editor of NYT website The Upshot, which first published the list in 2014. Last year’s rankings were highly influential, […]
Press one if you’d like to speak to Attila the Hun.Press two if your Jacuzzi is filled with eels.”– from “A Short History of Sublime Moments on Hold,” by Amy Gerstler Scattered at Sea, a poetry collection by UCI English professor Amy Gerstler, is in the running for the 2015 National Book Award for Poetry. Gerstler, […]
Anteater Academy at once-underperforming Santa Ana high school graduates first cohort of college-bound teens. The program is an example of UCI’s outreach to underrepresented students that placed it at the top of The New York Times’ College Access Index of schools that do the most for low-income students. Thirteen recent graduates of the school will attend UCI in the fall.
50th anniversary publication reveals little-known facts about campus’s bright past, brilliant future
EVENT: Media, come take a sneak peek at Casa del Sol, the solar-powered, drought-resistant home that 100 students from UCI, Chapman University, Irvine Valley College and Saddleback College have designed and built for the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon. Working in scorching heat and drenching storms, they have constructed a house patterned after the […]
Honor recognizes nation’s top change-makers in history, literature, languages
Campus also rates highly for best value and undergrad business, engineering programs
25-year veteran of law enforcement most recently led force in Huntington Park
UCI, other researchers examine differences between summer, Santa Ana fires