Alumni

Alumni couple create scholarship endowment at UCI’s Center for Critical Korean Studies

Carol Choi ’85 and Eugene Choi ’86, MBA ’01, have pledged $100,000 to create an endowment at UCI’s Center for Critical Korean Studies. Undergraduate students majoring in Korean studies and other qualified students with demonstrated interest will be provided with scholarships. Through its Brilliant Future Scholarship Match Opportunity, UCI will double the gift, matching endowment […]

Ensuring college access for first-gen students

Regent and UCI alumnus Eloy Ortiz Oakley discusses his first-gen journey

UCI is No. 6 public university in Money’s ‘Best Colleges’

Campus lauded for combining quality and affordability

Douglas Haynes, vice chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion

UCI launches Black Thriving Initiative

Institutional transformation strives to promote Black well-being and success

Shohreh Bozorgmehri, director of student and academic services in UCI’s Office of Information Technology

Group is established to connect, inspire and empower UCI women in technology

Organization will strengthen community and focus on diversity, equality and inclusion

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UCI Podcast: Top Chef winner and UCI alumna Melissa King dishes out college cooking tips

Melissa King, a 2005 UCI alumna with a bachelor’s degree in cognitive sciences, won Top Chef: All-Stars L.A., the 17th season of the show. In this episode of the UCI Podcast, King dishes on the final moments of the show and her unique California-Asian culinary style. She also shares cooking tips for college students and […]

UCI medical student Mehron Dhillon stacks donations of personal protective equipment during a drive for supplies in the School of Medicine parking lot.

Giving their all

Community members, local companies, philanthropists, students and alumni have rallied around UCI Health with donations of funds and personal protective equipment

Alumna named new director of Womxn’s Hub

UCI alumna Sydney Torres ’12 has been appointed the new director of the campus Womxn’s Hub. She most recently led the Cal Poly Pomona Womxn’s Resource Center, overseeing operations, student and staff development, and program development and implementation, as well as providing training across campus. Prior to that, Torres – who holds an M.S. in […]

Amy von Kaenel ’90, MBA ’96, founder and CEO of VolunteerCrowd

Verifying volunteerism

Startup founded by alumna and fostered by UCI incubator aids, tracks student community service

UCI’s impeachment connection

Alumna Megan Braun ’10 is clerking for Chief Justice John Roberts as he oversees trial