Press Releases

Students in a classroom, Military veterans participate in a Warrior-Scholar Project academic boot camp.

UCI hosts Warrior-Scholar Project boot camp for fourth year

Summer program prepares transitioning military veterans for college

The UCI cross-disciplinary graduate student team won first place in Phase 1 of the EPA’s Environmental Justice Video Challenge for Students, in which they revealed the lead soil contamination threat in Santa Ana. (From left: Annika Hjelmstad, Ashley Green, David Bañuelas, Tim Schütz, Ariane Jong, and Alexis Guerra.)

UCI takes first place in EPA Environmental Justice Video Challenge for Students

Cross-disciplinary graduate student team reveals lead soil contamination threat in Santa Ana

John Chaput

UCI-developed COVID-19 test detects, identifies specific variants with 100% accuracy

RNA-based method advances personalized medicine for improved patient care

Susan and Henry Samueli

UCI receives $4 million matching gift for Center for Jewish Studies

Donation from Susan and Henry Samueli to advance research, combat antisemitism

A trio of participants graduating from the Orange County Young Adult Court in October 2021 bookend two of the program’s key collaborators, Orange County Superior Court Judge Maria Hernandez (second from left) and UCI Professor Elizabeth Cauffman (center).

UCI awarded $10.1 million grant to expand O.C. Young Adult Court study

Funding will provide more extensive wraparound services for program participants

UCI Esports announces fall addition of Valorant team

First-person hero shooter game is third title supported by 5-year-old program

Richard Arum (left)and Duncan Pritchard (right).

UCI awarded $1 million from Templeton Foundation for Anteater Virtues program

Grant will expand campuswide curriculum promoting intellectual character growth

How a protein breaks free to cause deadly cancers

UCI-led finding helps propel search for improved treatments

UCI study: California’s trees are dying, and might not be coming back

Wildfires and climbing temperatures have caused a 6.7 percent decline since 1985

Bryce Mander

Research reveals how brain inflammation may link Alzheimer’s risk, sleep disturbance

Multisite team included UCI, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Wake Forest University