Society & Community

Mei Zhan

Chinese medicine goes global

Anthropology professor studies evolution of traditional practice among rural poor into lucrative industry embraced by Americans.

Nancy Minear

Warming the heart

UCI Stars, winners of the Living Our Values staff team award, make quilts to comfort cancer patients.

Everyday objects help teach basic biology

Diane O’Dowd uses objects from her garage to demonstrate biology principles and engage students.

Martin Luther King Jr.

MLK week: a call to action

UCI’s 26th annual celebration of civil rights leader encourages activism, service.

UCI’s first Rhodes scholar

Much-lauded Megan C. Braun ’10 will study international relations at University of Oxford.

Message from Chancellor Michael Drake regarding recent campus protests

I was appalled at the use of force by police against peaceful demonstrators at other campuses as seen in the media over the past few days.   These actions violate our policies and procedures.  Worse than that, they violate the well earned trust that our community has placed in our campus police.  We understand that […]

Amy Townsend-Small

‘Green’ spaces may worsen global warming

Turfgrass management can create more greenhouse gas than plants remove from atmosphere, study finds.

Sheena Nahm

Show biz becomes academic

UC Irvine graduate finds her niche in the emerging field of entertainment education doing research fro medical shows.

Francois Primeau

Oceans losing ability to absorb greenhouse gas

Like a dirty filter, the Earth’s oceans are growing less efficient at absorbing vast amounts of carbon dioxide, the major greenhouse gas produced by fossil-fuel burning, reports a study co-authored by Francois Primeau, UC Irvine Earth system science associate professor.

Amina Yassine

Creating global citizens

Humanities program offers diverse language courses, from Arabic to Vietnamese.