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UCI Podcast: The cultural significance of visual representation

UCI professor Bridget Cooks speaks to the need for comprehensive, widespread change

Brianne Donaldson, UCI assistant professor of philosophy and religious studies with a pig in a pen

What’s next: The future of food

Pandemic has heightened awareness of weaknesses in nation’s animal-based supply chain, which could accelerate trend toward plant-derived products

Alex Tan, UCI aluma - MFA English holding the poetry book she wrote.

Finding her place

Torn between poetry and fiction, Inez Tan earns an M.F.A. at UCI, with scholarship support, then stays on campus to teach creative writing

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UCI Podcast: Jessica Millward on the meaning and importance of Juneteenth

June 19 — Juneteenth — marks the day in 1865 that the Union Army announced in Texas that the African American slaves were free. Black Americans since then have honored the day, even as it has gone unnoticed by many others. But in 2020, with protesters filling the streets over the death of George Floyd, […]

Four UCI professors awarded Guggenheim Fellowships

Honorees specialize in history, science, art and literary journalism

UCI to host two-day conference on artificial intelligence

EVENT: The UCI Forum for the Academy and the Public will host a two-day conference on “The Future of the Future: The Ethics and Implications of AI.” Keynote speaker Bruce Sterling, an award-winning science fiction author, and an interdisciplinary and international panel of writers, academics and communicators will tackle an advance in technology that touches […]

UCI joins College and University Fund for the Social Sciences

Partnership provides critical link with Social Science Research Council to support research, collaboration and scholarship

UCI’s impeachment connection

Alumna Megan Braun ’10 is clerking for Chief Justice John Roberts as he oversees trial

UCI English lecturer Lorene Delany-Ullman

Mourning becomes eclectic

Exhibition featuring people’s mementos of deceased loved ones explores nature of grief

Core values

Freshman humanities course is ‘immersive deep dive into what it is that makes us human’