Year: 2016

Jennifer Lee,Chancellor’s Fellow and professor of sociology, joins two Pulitzer Prize winners in describing the immigrant experience for Los Angeles magazine’s October issue. In an article titled “What Defines a Successful Immigrant,” Lee compares how the starting points of various first-generation Asians and Latinos contribute to their ultimate success. Many of her first-generation students, she notes, are embarrassed to […]

Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Distinguished Professor of English and comparative literature, has been named the winner of the sixth Pak Kyong-ni Prize. South Korea’s first international literary award, it was established in 2011 to honor the achievements of the late South Korean novelist Pak Kyong-ni (1926-2008) and, with a cash prize of more than $90,000, is one of […]

Improved Earth system models paint bleak climate change picture

Mesa Court Towers offers fresh look in freshman dorms

UCI informatics professor Debra Richardson was at the White House last week for the Computer Science for All summit, a progress report on President Barack Obama’s call for greater resources and actions to encourage more students to learn about computing. Richardson heads UCI’s CS1C@OC program, which was created with funding from the National Science Foundation to produce 100 well-trained computer […]

UCI opens its classrooms to the largest-ever incoming class of freshmen, transfer students

UCI professors who were also first-generation students form support system

Study authors recommend policies to lessen stressful employment conditions

Neuroscientists at University of California, Irvine have discovered a molecular signaling mechanism that translates visual impairments into functional changes in brain circuit connections. The discovery may help to develop novel therapeutic drugs to treat the childhood visual disorder amblyopia and other neurodevelopment disorders. Xiangmin Xu, Todd Holmes and Sunil Gandhi conducted the study, which appears […]

EVENT: Students at the University of California, Irvine will attempt to clinch their seventh Guinness world record by fielding the largest game of four-quadrant dodgeball. The event is part of Welcome Week, the annual back-to-school slate of student activities. WHEN/WHERE: 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 20, at the Anteater Recreation Center sports fields (grid D11 on campus map: https://communications.uci.edu/documents/pdf/UCI_15_map_campus.pdf) […]