Students

Global Young Academy, co-chaired by UCI chemist Gregory Weiss, supports, gives voice to world’s junior researchers.

UCI’s Katie Pine seeks to improve U.S. maternity care with a Public Impact Fellowship.

NPR host and classical pianist Christopher O’Riley will share the stage with UCI student musicians April 9 at the Irvine Barclay Theatre.

Ragtime — that bright, toe-tapping piano music that flourished in bars, brothels and parlor rooms in the early 1900s — has found an unlikely promoter and practitioner at UC Irvine: a young civil engineering student named Jared DiBartolomeo. DiBartolomeo belongs to a generation that worships technology, was raised on rap and is addicted to keyboards […]

Political science graduate student Kathy Rim studies the political involvement of Asian Americans and is writing content about their contributions to American history that will be included in new textbooks.

Plants that grow rapidly have poor internal defenses against pests. So it’s ladybugs, and others, to the rescue.

Most nurses see patients in health clinics, hospitals and offices, but Jill Berg makes house calls, consulting with people who have asthma and other chronic pulmonary conditions. Her mission: to help them breathe easier.

Francisco Ayala, UC Irvine professor of ecology & evolutionary biology, who has vigorously opposed the entanglement of science and religion while also calling for mutual respect between the two, has won the 2010 Templeton Prize.

UCI’s George Tita and colleagues use math to explain crime hot spots, recommend prevention strategies.

Spearheaded by the UC Irvine Foundation, the Shaping the Future $1 billion campaign has surpassed the halfway mark as it strives to generate private support for undergraduate scholarships and graduate fellowships.