In the Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education rankings of top U.S. colleges in 2018, UCI rated third for providing a productive learning environment. For that category, which constitutes 10 percent of the overall rankings, the Journal/Times reviewed how colleges succeed in attracting a diverse student body and offering outlets and opportunities for these students to […]
The UCI campus community has made a serious effort to cut waste in recent years, resulting in an 80 percent reduction in non-biodegradable junk going to landfills. UCI recycling manager Anne Krieghoff discusses the university’s trash-abatement programs in a new Climate Lab video premiering today. Produced by the University of California in partnership with Vox, […]
Distinguished legal scholar is only woman of color to lead top-30 law school
UCI is a leader in closing the graduation gap between Latino and white students, according to the latest report from The Education Trust, a nonprofit advocacy organization. Based on three-year averages of federal data (2013 to 2015), the report computes and compares graduation rates and completion gaps between Latino and white students at four-year public […]
Henry Samueli, Broadcom Corp. co-founder and UCI Distinguished Adjunct Professor of electrical engineering & computer science, has been named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors for 2017. The distinction is awarded to academic inventors who’ve demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation with outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of […]
For more than 30 years as a researcher at INSERM – the French equivalent of the National Institutes of Health – and the UCI School of Medicine, Emiliana Borrelli has earned international recognition for her studies on the neurotransmitter dopamine and its role in brain diseases, movement disorders and addiction. This fall, the Chancellor’s Professor […]
Enhanced monitoring tool adds groundwater storage to assessment factors
UCI residential complex lauded for redefining the college living experience
Pioneering mental health professional, renowned scholar and beloved UCI teacher-mentor Joseph White is recalled as an inspirational campus icon
UCI environmental engineer Sunny Jiang traveled to St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, in the second half of November as part of a National Science Foundation Rapid Response Research project. Almost two months after two Category 5 hurricanes (Irma and Maria) struck the region, Jiang and her U.S. Geological Survey collaborator Christina Kellogg gathered samples for water […]