Month: July 2018

Almost half of students offered admission for fall quarter at UCI are first-generation

2018 admissions data reflect campus’s academic strength, diversity

Nexus of knowledge

Building will foster collaborative research in engineering, physical sciences and computing

Crowdfunding site powers passion projects

Students from the UCI School of Medicine have traveled across the globe to provide much-needed medical education to the people of Kenya, Panama, Indonesia, Tanzania and other countries. Instead of being fully funded through government or foundation grants, however, part of this work is being supported by fellow students, faculty, friends and community members through […]

UCI awarded $5 million NSF grant to boost low-income engineering enrollment

Scholarship program will support 190 transfer students in advanced manufacturing

Education professor gets $1.4 million to study kids’ Spanish-English language transfer skills

Young-Suk Kim, UCI professor of education, has been awarded a $1.4 million, four-year grant from the Institute of Education Sciences to explore children’s Spanish-English language transfer skills. “In kindergarten through 12th grade, English learners are the fastest-growing student population,” Kim said. “This study will systematically investigate how children’s first-language skills are related to their second-language […]