Education

Tanya Anaya, Evelin Villanueva, Samantha Salas, Araceli Brambila, Marie Moore and Hector Perez

Bilingual boom

UCI School of Education helps meet need for teachers in popular dual-language immersion classrooms

Cut branch from a heavily infested California sycamore

Regional beetle infestation prompts removal of UCI trees

An invasive beetle is prompting removal of trees on the UC Irvine campus

Alum gives back to society, alma mater

Keith Curry, Ed.D. ’11 is steering Compton Community College District out of troubled waters

UCI initiates NSF-funded joint project utilizing the arts to improve grade school science education

Through an innovative new program developed at UC Irvine, the arts and the sciences – which often occupy opposite ends of the grammar school curriculum – are being integrated to help young students better grasp the basics of Earth, life and physical sciences.

New faculty members

Fresh influx of faculty

School of Medicine claims 14 of 77 new hires

UCDC Collage of students

Capital gains

Students in UCI internship program acquire real-world experience in Washington, D.C.

UCI engineering dean attends White House Makers Faire

Event provides inspiration for turning student and community ideas into prototypes

George Farkas

Back to basics

Ineffective methods are more apt to be used by teachers of math-challenged students

Robert Gomez

Giving (back) as good as he got

First-generation alumnus now works at U.S. Department of Education helping others like him

Binbin Zheng

Bridging the educational divide

Public Impact Fellow Binbin Zheng studies how low-cost classroom technology can help disadvantaged learners