Brook Thomas has won the 2018 C. Hugh Holman Award from the Society for the Study of Southern Literature for The Literature of Reconstruction: Not in Plain Black and White (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017), described as “the go-to book on Reconstruction for at least a generation” by the SSSL panel. Drawing on 19th-century historiography […]
Body parts respond to day and night independently from brain, studies show
EVENT: Celebrating its 20th anniversary, UCI’s student-run film festival, Zotfest, will screen 10 student films, award prizes in eight categories, and host a panel discussion with several entertainment industry insiders from UCI on the changing landscape of film/television creation and distribution. Speakers will include Desha Dauchan, a filmmaker/writer and UCI assistant professor of teaching in […]
New UCI course examines inner workings and idiosyncrasies of theme park
UCI student film festival takes place June 3 at Irvine Barclay Theatre
Ngugi wa Thiong’o, UCI Distinguished Professor of comparative literature and English, has been awarded the 2019 Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize for Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature, about language and its constructive role in national culture, history and identity. The collection of essays advocates for linguistic decolonization and is one […]
Irvine, Calif., May 23, 2019 — The University of California, Irvine has received a multimillion-dollar gift from The Beall Family Foundation, led by Donald R. and Joan F. Beall. The largest portion of the gift will go to the campus’s entrepreneurial and innovation platform, UCI Applied Innovation, which will be renamed UCI Beall Applied Innovation. […]
A new episode of the UCI Podcast is available for listening. The guests are Mark Deppe, director of UCI Esports, and Avi Behar, a player on UCI’s five-member League of Legends team. The Anteaters are preparing to defend their title as national collegiate LoL champions in a tournament starting Friday, May 24, at Riot Games’ […]
Ramon Resa ’81 overcame incredible obstacles to become a successful pediatrician who caters to the children of migrant farmworkers
For the first time in Anteater history, the UCI varsity table tennis team competed in the iSET National Collegiate Table Tennis Association’s championships. The tournament took place April 12-14 in Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Anteaters placed a respectable fourth, topping teams from UC Davis, UC Berkeley, UCLA and UC San Diego. The UCI squad […]