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Campus statement on flying the American flag

Earlier this week, six undergraduate members of the UCI’s student-government Legislative Council passed a bill that bans hanging a flag from any nation in the common lobby area of the student government offices. This misguided decision was not endorsed or supported in any way by the campus leadership, the University of California, or the broader […]

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Twitter helps smokers kick the habit, UCI-Stanford study finds

Hybrid approach combines automated messages with social media platform

Director-general of Mexico’s space agency to promote research collaboration at UCI

EVENT: Francisco Javier Mendieta, director-general of the Mexican Space Agency, will speak on “Challenges & Opportunities of a Newly Created Space Agency: Advancing Technology for the Good of Humanity.” WHEN/WHERE: 4-5:30 p.m. Monday, March 2, in the Calit2 auditorium (grid H8, bldg. 325 on campus map: http://communications.uci.edu/documents/pdf/UCI_14_map_campus_core.pdf) INFORMATION: Media planning to attend should contact Cathy […]

Black Urban Music Conference brings musicians, activists, scholars to UCI

EVENT: UC Irvine’s 2015 Black Urban Music Conference will feature a keynote address by African American writer, musician and producer Greg Tate; musical performances by Burnt Sugar, Ugochi, Ras G and others; and a screening of the documentary “The Long Road to the Hall of Fame.” After the film, there will be a panel discussion […]

Overseeing your online afterlife

Jed Brubaker’s graduate research guides Facebook’s new policy on postmortem account stewardship

Honoring black histories on campus

Roster of activities detail struggle for justice, celebrate African American culture

Outlaw homage

Revival of iconic “Billy the Kid” ballet honors its original choreographer, Eugene Loring, founding chair of UCI’s dance department

Safe haven

Campus’s CARE office, new victim advocate are committed to supporting those subjected to sexual violence, harassment

UCI gets $2 million from Keck Foundation for photonic microscope

The W.M. Keck Foundation has awarded $2 million to UC Irvine to develop a photonic “magnetic nanoprobe,” a microscope able to amplify, detect and possibly manipulate the extremely weak optical-frequency magnetic fields in matter.

New UCI-based center gives researchers direct link to US census data

UC Irvine is home to the nation’s newest of 18 U.S. Census Research Data Centers. Established through a partnership between the School of Social Sciences and the U.S. Census Bureau, the campus site allows UCI researchers unprecedented local access to administrative and survey data.