Magazine

Prescription for resilience

Ramon Resa ’81 overcame incredible obstacles to become a successful pediatrician who caters to the children of migrant farmworkers

Safeguarding the First Amendment

UCI is a home for the new National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement

Speaking Freely

Three questions with Michelle Deutchman

Continuing Ed’s Evolution

You won’t find a crystal ball or tarot cards in Gary W. Matkin’s office, but if you want to know what’s coming down the pike in higher education, it’s a good place to start. Over several decades of running continuing education programs – first at UC Berkeley, then at UCI – Matkin helped pioneer innovations […]

Studying the Students

UCI to pilot a national survey on undergraduate life and learning – with an eye to improving both

Back to School

On paper, Andrea Aebersold had it all. She’d earned a doctorate and was an associate professor of literature at Washington State University. But she began to tire of lecturing to class after class. Something was missing. Then her vice chancellor offered her the chance to design and test an innovative teaching program. It increased the […]

New School of Thought

California’s first active learning building opens at UCI, giving tech-savvy students a hands-on role in their education

Connecting the Disconnected

In studying the effectiveness of telepresence robots in classrooms, a postdoctoral researcher who was homebound herself as a child finds that they can be life-changing

Her Dream? To Call the U.S. Home

Viridiana Chabolla was only a few days into her first year at the UCI School of Law when that helpless feeling she had first experienced as a child welled up once again. Walking to class on the morning of Sept. 5, 2017, she watched a livestreamed video on her cellphone of U.S. Attorney General Jeff […]

The American Dream Personified

From helping homeless youths to leading California’s community college system, UCI alumni are living out the American dream in myriad ways. Tenacious, intelligent and driven, they have overcome adversity to achieve their visions and make a difference in their communities and in the world. Below, we explore just a small sampling of the fascinating success stories created by UCI graduates.