UCI defeated Columbia College to win the 2018 League of Legends College Championship on June 10. The second-seeded Anteaters beat their fifth-seeded rivals 3-0 in the tournament final held at Riot Games’ North American League of Legends Championship Series Arena in Los Angeles. “I feel really accomplished and happy that we were able to win […]
Over 7,000 graduates will participate in commencement ceremonies this month
The UCI A-team placed 3rd in the national mock trial tournament, in which 48 teams from across the country competed. Hosted by Hamline University in St. Paul, Minn., the competition was held in Minneapolis April 20-22. For the first time in five years, UCI qualified two national teams – A-team and B-team. In the collegiate […]
Annual symposium showcases work of more than 1,200 students
EVENT: UCI Law graduate Star Leal, selected by her classmates to be this year’s student commencement speaker, gave birth to a baby boy – her fourth child –last Sunday. Leal, 29, earned her degree while advocating for homeless and special needs children and ran highly successful toy drives for them. She will focus her practice […]
EVENT: Comedian W. Kamau Bell, host and executive producer of the Emmy Award-winning CNN show “United Shades of America,” will speak at UCI as part of the “Perspectives on Bias, Prejudice & Bigotry” public lecture series, sponsored by the campus’s Confronting Extremism initiative. WHEN/WHERE: Tuesday, May 22, Irvine Barclay Theatre (bldg. 1, grid E9 on […]
UCI study also finds low-cost, regional air carriers disproportionately affected
The UCI Go Club defeated its rivals from UCLA to win the 2017-18 Collegiate Go League tournament final on April 28. UCI took two out of three games in the three-hour match, which was watched by more than 17,500 online spectators at Twitch.TV. On the first board, Shengjie Zhou, a UCI junior majoring in psychology, […]
By taking a closer look, UCI scientists find resilience in face of heat stress
For more than 400 years, William Shakespeare’s plays have endured. They’ve been studied, performed, remixed and celebrated across generations and geographies. As we celebrate his April birthday, we also celebrate the three-year anniversary of the launch of the UCI Shakespeare Center. Co-directed by Julia Reinhard Lupton, professor of English and associate dean for humanities research, and […]