EVENT: What kind of art would journalists’ brain waves produce? Put your gray matter to the test in a preview demonstration of “My Virtual Dream,” a multisensory experience to be featured by UCI’s Department of Neurology and School of Medicine at the 50th Anniversary Festival of Discovery. WHEN/WHERE: 4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 2, in UCI’s Aldrich Park (F7 […]
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 […]
UCI chemist Greg Weiss and his team received the 2015 Ig Nobel Prize in chemistry Sept. 17 at the 25th Ig Nobel Prize ceremony at Harvard University. A parody of the Nobel Prizes, these humorous awards honor scientific research that “makes you laugh, then think.” Weiss’ Ig Nobel is in recognition of his group’s breakthrough technique of unboiling an egg with […]
Come celebrate UCI’s 50th Anniversary at the first-ever Festival of Discovery and Anteater 5K & Family Fun Run on Saturday, Oct. 3. The festival will offer something for everyone, including live music, food trucks, interactive demos, hands-on displays, athletic clinics, TEDx talks and more. Runners will race through the decades for the ultimate throwback. Participants […]
Thousands of staff members donned their favorite UCI gear for the 25th Annual Staff Appreciation Picnic on Aug. 27 in Aldrich Park. In celebration of UCI’s 50th Anniversary, the event included a “Show Your UCI Pride” department competition, an oldest UCI T-shirt contest, a volleyball game, a water-balloon toss and three-legged potato sack race. Attendees […]
EVENT: “Blood in the Water: A Katrina Remembrance” is an exhibit of photographs taken shortly after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, in particular New Orleans, in 2005. The photos are by Jon Hughes, photojournalist and professor of English & journalism at the University of Cincinnati, and are curated – with accompanying commentary – by New […]
When I graduated high school, I cut out the text of a speech that President Obama shared with the graduating class of 2010 from my local newspaper. Four years later, I was lucky enough to hear Obama usher my graduating class into adulthood at the UCI all-campus commencement ceremony at Angel Stadium of Anaheim. At the ceremony, […]
Celebration closed with a discussion on youth leadership and the significance of education in furthering universal human values The Dalai Lama’s birthday celebration concluded Tuesday afternoon at UCI’s Bren Events Center with a panel on youth leadership and the significance of education in advancing universal human values. The Tibetan spiritual leader was joined by artists, scholars and […]