Year: 2017

UCI residential complex lauded for redefining the college living experience

Pioneering mental health professional, renowned scholar and beloved UCI teacher-mentor Joseph White is recalled as an inspirational campus icon

UCI environmental engineer Sunny Jiang traveled to St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, in the second half of November as part of a National Science Foundation Rapid Response Research project. Almost two months after two Category 5 hurricanes (Irma and Maria) struck the region, Jiang and her U.S. Geological Survey collaborator Christina Kellogg gathered samples for water […]

Visually impaired Ph.D. student has her sights set on becoming a writing instructor

If you’re planning on tuning into “The Big Bang Theory” for a few laughs this Thursday evening, you may also get to see how a team of UCI physicists proposes to detect dark matter and forces in the universe. Based on a quirky group of Caltech researchers, the hit CBS TV comedy often features in […]

Cross-disciplinary course explores role of neurobiology in performing arts

Harry Xu, associate professor of computer science at UCI, and UCLA colleagues have been awarded $4.9 million from the Office of Naval Research to support their work on reducing software inefficiencies. The four-year grant will fund the development of software customization techniques that can greatly reduce the redundancies and waste in modern, object-oriented big data […]

Experienced leaders will guide campus efforts to raise, manage private funds

UCI Chancellor’s Professor of Law Carrie Menkel-Meadow has been selected to receive the 2018 American Bar Foundation Fellows Outstanding Scholar Award. The award recognizes her decades-long work in creating, building, shaping, and internationalizing the field of alternative dispute resolution, and for her major contributions to the studies of the legal profession and feminism. Awarded annually […]

UCI Chancellor Howard Gillman has been elected to the governing board of the Hispanic Association of Colleges & Universities. Established in 1986, HACU is the only national education association that represents Hispanic-serving institutions. Although its members in the U.S. account for only 10 percent of higher education institutions nationwide, they educate more than two-thirds of […]