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The pop-up New Swan Theater is modeled after Elizabethan stages where Shakespeare’s plays were first performed.

Shakespeare under the stars

New Swan returns to its open-air playhouse for its 11th season

People at tables addressing envelopes.

Books through bars

Prison service program finds a second home at UCI

Jennifer Keil (left)and Cindy Keil (right)

A beloved incubator for business innovators

UCI’s ANTrepreneur Center empowers students, alumni to achieve entrepreneurial success

Celebrations from 2023 UCI commencement.

Tassel time!

Over 8,200 Class of 2023 members participate in commencement ceremonies

Karishma Muthukumar and her brother Pratyush.

Bringing emotional intelligence to artificial intelligence

UCI alumni siblings to present at UN’s AI for Good 2023 global summit

Dennis Kim, holding his violin and bow stands on a bridge with students in the background.

He teaches another kind of string theory

Pacific Symphony concertmaster Dennis Kim joins UCI music faculty

Katy Rodriguez Wimberly (left) and Manuel Paul (right).

Fulfilling the promise

UCI Cal-Bridge graduates secure state higher-education faculty positions

Cassandra Coblentz, guest curator of Langson IMCA’s upcoming exhibition “Indefinitely Wild: Preserving California’s Natural Resources,” admires Detlef Sammann’s 1915 “Del Monte Forest.”

‘Indefinitely Wild’

Art exhibition contrasts pristine California landscapes with reality of development

For Phase 1 of the EPA’s Environmental Justice Video Challenge for Students, UCI team members created maps pinpointing soil lead contamination hot spots in Santa Ana; the red areas above show where the dirt contains unhealthy levels of the metal. Following Phase 2 of the competition, UCI students and community activists are partnering in a project to use plants and fungus to remove lead from affected locations.

Meeting the environmental justice challenge

UCI graduate students honored by EPA for bioremediation project video

Alejandro Benitez

Getting a head start on healthcare

UCI student volunteers prepare for medical school by making a difference locally and abroad