Month: April 2019

Forbes ranks UCI among best large employers

Forbes has named UCI one of the best large employers in the U.S. The campus rated No. 40 overall and No. 4 among educational institutes. This comes on the heels of a January Forbes ranking, in which UCI rated the seventh best for employee diversity – the second-highest ranking for both a California employer and […]

Media exposure to mass violence can fuel cycle of distress, 3-year longitudinal study shows

UCI researchers find that it can heighten people’s anxiety about and response to future events

Clare Yu is named a fellow by the American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Physicist joins 34 other UCI faculty members in the prestigious organization

UCI’s Kumar Wickramasinghe is named a fellow of the Royal Society

Accomplished engineer is recognized for contributions to nanotechnology, microscopy

#MeToo movement founder Tarana Burke to speak at UCI

EVENT: Tarana Burke, a civil rights activist who founded the #MeToo movement to raise awareness of sexual harassment and assault, will speak at UCI on the campaign’s history and future plans. Currently the senior director of programs at Girls for Gender Equity in Brooklyn, New York, she has dedicated more than 25 years to social […]

Vicki Ruiz gets distinguished service award from the Organization of American Historians

Vicki Ruiz, Distinguished Professor Emerita of history and Chicano/Latino studies, has received the 2019 Roy Rosenzweig Distinguished Service Award from the Organization of American Historians. The annual award recognizes those who have significantly enriched the understanding and appreciation of American history. Ruiz led the way in making Chicano/Latino history fully part of U.S. history, highlighting […]

Helping others like herself

First-gen alumna gives back to UCI program pivotal to her success

Redefining the world of cancer

New grants and studies give UCI researchers the chance to make a profound difference

UCI art professor Daniel Joseph Martinez receives 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship

UCI artist Daniel Joseph Martinez is among the 2019 Guggenheim Fellows newly named by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The fellowships were awarded this year to a diverse group of 168 scholars and artists from a pool of almost 3,000 applicants from the United States and Canada, appointed on the basis of prior achievement […]

UCI chemistry professor Greg Weiss riding a bike

Registration opens for third annual UCI Anti-Cancer Challenge

Ride, run and walk event to benefit cancer research returns to Irvine campus June 8