Media Advisories

UC Irvine to host Vietnamese International Film Festival screenings

EVENT:  The sixth biennial Vietnamese International Film Festival kicks off this week with screenings at UC Irvine. The eight-day program features 69 movies by Vietnamese and Vietnamese diaspora filmmakers from Australia, Cambodia, Canada, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Poland, Singapore, Switzerland, Vietnam and the United States. UC Irvine’s School of Humanities, Department of Asian American […]

Homeboy Industries founder to speak at O.C. Gang Intervention Conference

EVENT: Father Gregory Boyle, nationally acclaimed gang interventionist and New York Times best-selling author, will deliver the keynote address at the fourth annual Orange County Gang Intervention Conference. Boyle is the founder of Homeboy Industries, a nonprofit economic development enterprise in Los Angeles and the nation’s largest gang intervention, rehabilitation and societal re-entry program. He […]

UCI autism center to screen documentary 'Through the Heart of Tango'

EVENT: UC Irvine’s Center for Autism & Neurodevelopmental Disorders of Southern California is hosting a private screening of “Through the Heart of Tango,” a remarkable documentary about a group of young adults with developmental disorders learning to bond through dance. WHEN/WHERE: 2-5 p.m. Saturday, March 16, Crystal Cove Auditorium, UC Irvine Student Center (grid E8, […]

UCI to host statewide MathCounts competition

EVENT:  Regional winners from throughout California will vie for titles in the statewide MathCounts competition. Participants will include students from Irvine’s Rancho San Joaquin Middle School, Venado Middle School, Sierra Vista Middle School and Turtle Rock Elementary School. The top four finishers will represent California in the nationwide finals in May in Washington, D.C. WHEN/WHERE: […]

L.A. County district attorney to discuss her career, undergraduate days at UCI

EVENT:  Jackie Lacey ’79, the first female and first African American district attorney for Los Angeles County, will talk about her time as a UC Irvine undergraduate and how it paved the way for her successful law career. The public lecture, titled “A Journey Toward Justice,” is hosted by UC Irvine’s Office of the Vice […]

UCI graduate scholars with a penchant for public service to present their research

Fellowship recipients’ work spans a range of disciplines, from cancer research to energy conservation

Rudy Giuliani to talk leadership at UC Irvine

Lecture hosts — UC Irvine chapter of the National Society of Leadership & Success —  introduces students to  people who have changed the world through community service

Whose university is this, anyway? Expert panel to discuss

The event is sponsored by the University of California Humanities Research Institute, a multicampus entity based at UC Irvine

Veteran civil rights leader Elaine Brown to speak at MLK symposium

Talk is part of a weeklong schedule of speakers and volunteer opportunities

Money exhibit at UCI Libraries

Oct. 5 opening event features talk by Catherine Eagleton, modern money curator at London’s British Museum.