Features

Medical center again among top in America

UC Irvine Medical Center’s programs in gynecology, urology, cancer and kidney disease among top in the country, according to U.S. News & World Report.

Professor of the Year Caesar Sereseres

Making the grade

Celebration of Teaching and Excellence in Leadership awards honor faculty and staff.

A single potato chip held up

The potato chip predicament

UC Irvine researchers found that fats in foods like potato chips and french fries make them nearly irresistible and trigger a surprising biological mechanism that likely drives our gluttonous behavior.

Port-wine stain masters

The Beckman Laser Institute & Medical Clinic at UC Irvine is home to one of the nation’s elite research and treatment centers for vascular birthmarks.

Gladson and Cooley visit the new orphanage in India

Blueprint for hope

Compared to the hospitals, research labs, university buildings and other important structures Rebekah Gladson has designed as campus architect and associate vice chancellor of UC Irvine, an orphanage in India might seem like a small, insignificant project. Not to her. For Gladson, whose visionary buildings have earned her the Design-Build Institute of America’s Brunelleschi Lifetime Achievement […]

Jessica and Riley Pratt climb a tree

Putting down roots in the tropics

Generous alumni gift guarantees UCI access to tropical studies program.

Mary Verdi-Fletcher

Redefining dance

Recent M.F.A. grad works to integrate disabled and nondisabled performers.

Thad Domina

Equal opportunity educator

Thad Domina, assistant professor of education, traces the road from high school to college and beyond.

Summer Reading books in sand

Summer syllabus

Summer’s here, and the reading’s easy. So stash the dry textbooks, research tomes and heavier literary works that pile up on the nightstand during the academic year. The latest by David Sedaris? Got it right here with the sunscreen. No. 17 in Janet Evanovich’s epic Stephanie Plum series? It’s in the beach bag. (Hey, don’t […]

Kimberly Romar

Fostering fitness

American Heart Association gives campus a rare platinum rating for its programs, walking paths and more.