Features

Daisy Reyes

Helping Latino college students feel ‘at home'

The prospect of better employment may be what motivates students to enroll in college, but the key to keeping them enrolled has a lot to do with peer-bonding experiences and organizational involvement, says Daisy Reyes, UC Irvine graduate student in sociology and Lauds & Laurels honoree.

A child in prison

UCI professor studies juvenile crime

Elizabeth Cauffman’s research on adolescent development has influenced public policy on youth offenders.

Photograph of architects Ray Watson, William Pereira and an unidentified man with a schematic of UCI

Libraries exhibit traces Irvine's evolution

UCI Libraries’ spring exhibit chronicles city’s conversion from farmland to model planned community.

Breanna Downey

From cradle to commencement, graduate comes full circle

When Breanna Downey dons a cap and gown and walks across the stage to collect her diploma at UCI’s commencement, she will have come full circle. Downey has made the trip before – when she was a towheaded toddler and her mother graduated with the class of 1991.

The Student Center Bell Tower

UCI rings in new set of campus bells

For the first time in UCI history, the sound of stately gongs emanated from the Student Center Bell Tower, playing — more or less — at 10 a.m. and again at 10:10 a.m. Thursday, May 5, in honor of the class of 2010, which raised $8,538.82 for the carillon system.

Students give others an (alternative) break

While their peers party on, some UCI students spend spring vacation working on various service projects, from planting a garden at a Native American reservation in San Diego County to putting the shine on the Golden Gate national park in San Francisco.

Dalai Lama speaks to sold-out crowd at UCI

Visit by Tibetan spiritual leader marks seventh anniversary of UCI scholarship carrying his name.

Computer Mouse sitting atop books

UCI undergrads get lots of online options

The largest online enrollment in UC system flourishes from strong partnerships across the campus.

MS patient Shirley Cero jokes with nurse Monica Shim and her caregiver Elsa Palomino

Continuing UCI's legacy of MS research, care

The new Multiple Sclerosis Research Center aims to continue UCI’s legacy of outstanding MS research and care andhas gathered more than two dozen UCI experts to advance novel methods of fighting the chronic neurologic disease.

Tom Tiffany

UC Irvine specialists avert amputation

Doctors at UC Irvine Medical Center save man’s leg after blood clots block circulation.