EVENT: The University of California, Irvine and Orange County United Way have partnered to form O.C. Working Together, which is hosting a daylong summit to improve and expand collective efforts to help the county’s least fortunate. UCI faculty and graduate students, O.C. United Way leaders, chief executives from O.C. nonprofits, religious leaders and elected officials will […]
The New York Times has named UCI No. 1 among U.S. universities that do the most for low-income students. The 2015 rankings were presented at The New York Times’ Schools for Tomorrow conference by David Leonhardt, editor of NYT website The Upshot, which first published the list in 2014. Last year’s rankings were highly influential, […]
25-year veteran of law enforcement most recently led force in Huntington Park
In March of this year, six undergraduate members of the UCI’s student-government Legislative Council passed a bill that banned hanging a flag from any nation in the common lobby area of the student government offices. The legislation was vetoed by the Executive Cabinet of the student government within days. This decision was not endorsed or […]
Campus is first in Sierra magazine’s green schools ranking for second year in a row
Campus is first in Sierra magazine’s green schools ranking for second year in a row
Carolyn Boyd, UCI professor emeritus of history, died July 19 at 71. A distinguished historian of modern Spain, she taught at UCI from 1999 to 2010, serving as professor of history, chair of history and dean of graduate studies.
As head of the county’s largest hospital and only medical school, Howard Federoff has his finger on the pulse of the vast UC Irvine Health enterprise
The UCI School of Humanities has received a $175,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to produce “Documenting War,” a yearlong “Sawyer Seminar” that will explore the genres, rhetoric and real effects of wartime documentation and postwar reflection, as carried out by journalists, soldiers, civilians and artists in verbal, visual and mixed-media forms.
Already a leader in water conservation, UCI combats drought by going after every drop