Campus Life

Brushing up on cybersecurity

With Data Privacy Day this week, campus expert offers timely advice on safeguarding sensitive digital information

Scientists drill first deep ice core at the South Pole

UCI and fellow researchers map climate history at the bottom of the Earth

Cheers!

Homecoming festival will feature special Anteater Ale in celebration of campus’s 50th anniversary

Students in Aldrich Park

A record 88,792 students seek admission to UCI in fall 2015

Irvine, Calif., Jan. 12, 2015 – UC Irvine experienced a 7.7 percent rise in applications this year, with a record 88,792 students vying for admission in fall 2015. The growth outpaced the systemwide increase by nearly 2 percentage points. UCI also saw impressive gains in Chicano/Latino and African American freshman applicants. And the campus had […]

A record 88,792 students seek admission to UCI in fall 2015

 Irvine, Calif., Jan. 12, 2015 – UC Irvine experienced a 7.7 percent rise in applications this year, with a record 88,792 students vying for admission in fall 2015. The growth outpaced the systemwide increase by nearly 2 percentage points. UCI also saw impressive gains in Chicano/Latino and African American freshman applicants. And the campus had 68,740 […]

Christine Pham

Grant-getters

UCI’s Scholarship Opportunities Program helps students snag funding for educational enrichment around the globe

New free clinic

Resolving to give back

Undergraduates open free clinic in Garden Grove

Hazy road to Mecca

Dangerously high levels of air pollutants are being released in Mecca during the hajj, the annual holy pilgrimage in which millions of Muslims on foot and in vehicles converge on the Saudi Arabian city, according to findings reported today at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco.

Felipe Hernandez

Felipe Hernandez '13 named Marshall Scholar, one of only 40 nationwide

Felipe Hernandez has become the first UC Irvine graduate in 18 years to win a Marshall Scholarship, which supports two years of study at a British university.

Shedding (fluorescent) light on Ebola

A fluorescent green limb pokes outward from a cell wall under a high-powered microscope. The filament is loaded with VP40, an essential protein in the Ebola virus. The microscope is capturing it budding out in real time. It’s followed by another and another. Those green protrusions may be the means by which the deadly virus […]