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12 winning teams share $100,000 in cash, prizes at annual event

EVENT:  Stephen Smith, executive director of the Shoah Foundation, will share his progress on digitizing the stories of Holocaust survivors using interactive, three-dimensional exhibits and holograms that live on long after the storytellers have died. WHEN/WHERE:  5-6:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 18, The Paul Merage School of Business auditorium (bldg. 222, grid F10 on campus map: https://communications.uci.edu/documents/pdf/UCI_15_map_campus_core.pdf) INFORMATION:  Media […]

Anteater Equity Games promote inclusivity – and fun, of course

EVENT:  Thirty-seven teams participating in the Paul Merage School of Business 2016 Business Plan Competition at UCI Applied Innovation will make their final pitches judges representing faculty and community business leaders. More than $100,000 in prizes will be awarded to winning teams in nine categories. This funding, and further support from UCI’s Applied Innovation, will […]

EVENT:  Global Food Summit: Sustainable Solutions is the second of a two-part Global Food Security conference held at University of California, Irvine. Internationally renowned food security leaders, practitioners and academics will address critical topics, ranging from global efforts to improve agriculture to the promise of technological advances. For full list of events, go to: http://blumcenter.uci.edu/gfs/ WHEN/WHERE: 8 a.m.-5 p.m. […]

EVENT: “California Modern: Irvine Style” will explore the master plans for UCI and Irvine in relation to American modernism and higher education and early 1960s Utopianism. The symposium and exhibits aim to define the legacy and influence of architect William Pereira (1909-1985), who designed the campus and city. WHEN/WHERE: April 18-25 at UCI’s Student Center (bldg. 113, grid […]

UCI’s graduating medical students look to the future on March 18 as they learn where their careers will start

Michael P. Clark gets Extraordinarius honor; celebration is May 12

EVENT:  Mohamed El-Erian, former PIMCO CEO and author of the newly released The Only Game in Town: Central Banks, Instability & Avoiding the Next Collapse, will talk politics, policies and markets in a three-person panel at UCI. El-Erian is a frequent commentator on the post-2008 financial crisis, the sovereign debt and eurozone crisis, and political upheavals […]

EVENT:  Steven Chu, Nobel laureate, former U.S. secretary of energy, and professor of physics and molecular & cellular physiology at Stanford University, will deliver the 2016 Reines Lecture, titled “Energy, Climate Change and the Transition to a Sustainable World.” WHEN/WHERE:  7:30-8:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 9, Irvine Barclay Theatre (bldg. 1, grid E9 on campus map) INFORMATION:  Media planning […]