Students

Taking on tumors

UCI Ph.D. student wins Public Impact Distinguished Fellowship for her efforts to develop a cancer vaccine

UCI biomedical engineers develop wearable respiration monitor with children’s toy

Inexpensive, disposable sensors continuously measure breath rate and volume

Carol Booth Olson

UCI gets $5 million to establish first national R&D center on improving writing skills

Focus will be on identifying best teaching practices in middle, high school classrooms

Studying the Students

UCI to pilot a national survey on undergraduate life and learning – with an eye to improving both

New School of Thought

California’s first active learning building opens at UCI, giving tech-savvy students a hands-on role in their education

Connecting the Disconnected

In studying the effectiveness of telepresence robots in classrooms, a postdoctoral researcher who was homebound herself as a child finds that they can be life-changing

Black History Month

Deadly diseases, mathematical riddles and a grandma’s piano. Below, these and other elements play a role in the stories of four Anteaters of color. Meet UCI administrator Douglas M. Haynes, who grew up glued to British costume dramas as the youngest of nine children; UCI alumnus Jermaine Griggs, an online music entrepreneur and world traveler; […]

UCI is No. 1 UC choice for California’s college-bound high school graduates

Campus also received most first-generation, underrepresented student applications

UCI to celebrate Lunar New Year

EVENT:  UCI will be celebrating the upcoming Lunar New Year – heralding the Year of the Pig – with an academic discussion, multicultural entertainment, lion and dragon parades, food, light and sound show and more. WHEN/WHERE:  Monday, Jan. 28, with an academic discussion with the Richard Nixon Foundation regarding the Nixon Tapes, administration documents and historical artifacts […]

Branching out

UCI strives to boost number of minority students earning STEM degrees