2022 Year in Review – UCI in the community
A year of groundbreaking growth and accomplishments
It’s not uncommon to find UCI students and faculty out in the community. In Orange County, UCI led the development of drop-in mental wellness centers for youth. Additionally, the Future Leaders Initiative developed by UCI’s Paul Merage School of Business is actively nurturing the curiosity of local high school and community college students in underserved areas about technology and business.
Much of the university’s research is community-focused as well. One research team, funded this year by a grant from the Hematology/Oncology Pharmacy Association, is dedicated to addressing health disparities among cancer patients from ethnic minorities. And an innovative pharmacy program is committed to providing essential patient care and services to underserved communities.
Here are a few highlights:
- Learning through experience: UCI humanities students take their studies outside the classroom
- Ready to reenter society: students graduate from pair of innovative programs
- UCI leads development of drop-in mental wellness centers for O.C. youth
- Future Leaders Initiative aims to improve corporate diversity in Southern California
- UCI Law’s Press Freedom Project plays a critical role in keeping independent investigative reporting alive
- UCI Podcast: The success of PRIME-LC
- UCI Brain Camp taps into the teenage brain
- Amplifying a classic Black music genre: UCI hosted 25th anniversary African American Art Song Alliance conference
- Urban dwelling: the School of Social Ecology’s Livable Cities Lab studies affordable housing, public safety and social enterprise innovations to improve city life
- For computer science in classrooms, the earlier the better: visit to School of Education’s inclusive Digital Learning Lab impresses Bavarian legislators
- Two UCI-led studies point to gasoline emissions as the likely source of lead contamination in Santa Ana
- UCI research team to improve health disparities among ethnic minority cancer patients using real-time analytics data
- Beyond the corner drugstore
- Black History Month: how pharmacists can work towards health equity
- UCI’s innovative pharmacy program provides essential patient care and services to underserved communities
- Disaster drill aims to aid the elderly: NSF-funded CareDEX project tests Internet of Things technologies in mock emergency
- ‘Anyone can get Alzheimer’s. Anyone can be a caregiver.’
