On Tuesday, Jan. 26, the Chancellor’s Office received a letter from UCI’s Black Student Union, demanding the abolition of the campus police force. The UCI Police Department comprises a highly respected team of officers who risk their lives to ensure the safety of our students, faculty and staff. We are proud of them and will […]
UCI is world-renowned leader in experimental particle physics, especially neutrinos
Ruth Kluger, UCI professor emerita of German, today addressed Germany’s federal parliament, the Bundestag, during a memorial ceremony marking the nation’s annual Day of Remembrance for Victims of National Socialism. The event has featured renowned politicians, authors and activists as speakers, including Nobel laureates Elie Wiesel and Imre Kertesz. The theme of this year’s memorial was […]
English professor Amy Gerstler is a finalist for the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, which bestows $100,000 on a midcareer poet. Gerstler, who teaches in UCI’s M.F.A. Programs in Writing, is one of five contenders for the prize. Her works of poetry, nonfiction and journalism have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review and The American Poetry Review. Gerstler’s most recent book, Scattered at Sea, was longlisted for […]
EVENT: Author and investigative journalist Katherine Boo, a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine, will visit the University of California, Irvine to discuss urban and global poverty, India and other topics. WHEN/WHERE: Feb. 2-4 at various locations on the UCI campus HIGHLIGHTS: Tuesday, Feb. 2 Wednesday, Feb. 3 Thursday, Feb. 4 INFORMATION: Media planning to attend should contact […]
Multifaceted annual event connects university with alumni and community
EVENT: A lion dance parade, elaborate costumes, eye-catching artistic demonstrations, origami workshops, live cultural entertainment, delicious food tastings and beverages will highlight a Lunar New Year festival hosted by UCI’s social sciences, law and business schools in conjunction with the campus’s John S. & Marilyn Long U.S.-China Institute for Business & Law. WHEN/WHERE: 3:30-6:30 p.m. Monday, […]
Superior Court Judge Maria D. Hernandez ’86 presides over efforts to keep troubled juveniles from succumbing to lives of crime
Alumnus uses skills learned at UCI in overseeing nonprofit’s education efforts in rural Africa
Bill Maurer, dean of social sciences, shares a trove of fun facts about money