Education

Gillman, Napolitano assure Anaheim High students that a UC education is within reach

UC President Janet Napolitano and UCI Chancellor Howard Gillman led a rally of more than 700 Anaheim High School students in Cook Auditorium on Friday, April 27, to send the message that a UC education is accessible and affordable. The visit was part of Achieve UC, a multiyear effort to encourage students in communities with […]

Solutions and best practices for student social mobility discussed at UCI conference

Higher education leaders, faculty, students and community members came together at UCI on Valentine’s Day for the Facilitating Social Mobility in Higher Education Symposium to discuss new solutions, share best practices, and dream of ways to overcome obstacles for students of disadvantages backgrounds from receiving a college education. The daylong event included an impressive list […]

Demystifying STEM

Doctoral student helps Latina girls see themselves as potential scientists

From camp to campus

Summer residential program at UCI helps middle school girls see themselves as college material

Technology that includes, not isolates

Doctoral candidate Veronica Newhart will meet with state lawmakers to advocate for graduate research such as her own

UCI’s critical theory program is No. 1 in U.S. News’ graduate school rankings

11other fields of study place in top 25 among public universities in annual list

Grant supports UCI bridge program to fill shortage of K-12 math and science teachers

With a $230,000 grant from the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing, UCI faculty, led by Richard Arum, dean of the School of Education, have embarked on a project to address the shortage of K-12 math and science teachers. They’re developing a bridge program that will enable community college students to transfer to UCI’s nationally recognized […]

Study of Twitter-based smoking cessation program gets $2.5 million from NIH

With a $2.5 million continuation grant from the National Institutes of Health, Cornelia Pechmann, professor of marketing at UCI’s Paul Merage School of Business, and Judith J. Prochaska, associate professor of medicine at Stanford University, will advance their research on a Twitter-based smoking intervention program. Their most recent study found that participants in Tweet2Quit were twice as successful […]

UCI launches Center for Critical Korean Studies

Unit will foster interdisciplinary research, international collaboration

UCI vice chancellor speaks at Compton High School on higher ed opportunities

Visit is part of continuing effort to further increase diversity among UC undergrads