There was only one place to buy lunch in the early days, so professors and students were together in the dining commons at the same time. A bookworm and introvert by preference, I usually ate alone with a book open on my lap. Doing so enabled me to hear what the professors at a nearby […]
UCI gets $1.1 million to help first-generation and low-income students realize their potential
EVENT: Several hundred international and U.S. students remaining on campus for Thanksgiving can enjoy a luncheon feast served by UCI Chancellor Howard Gillman, Vice Chancellor Thomas Parham and others. WHEN/WHERE: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 26, in Pippin Commons at Middle Earth (G9 on campus map) INFORMATION: Media planning to attend should contact Cathy Lawhon at 949-824-1151 […]
Mentoring program pairs new students with upperclassmen who also are first in their families to go to college
I have always felt fortunate to have been in UCI’s first four-year class. For the first few years, the campus was wild. When I looked out the window of my dorm room, I’d often see roadrunners. And when walking in the nearby hills, I saw a bobcat, a golden eagle and cactus wrens. I also […]
When UCI first opened, there were 10 dormitories for 500 students in Mesa Court. I moved into Viento in 1966. My room, 203-D, had a window that looked out onto hills being developed into the first addition to Mesa Court. The water tank was located close to our window, and the ritual each morning was […]
UCI graduate student manages unique construction challenge: the Team Orange County entry in the 2015 Solar Decathlon
When I enrolled at UCI in the late ’80s, I was unfocused, uninspired, and not very confident in my ability to find a future. UCI changed all that, but in a way that was totally unexpected. My roommates were water polo players and they encouraged me to come to morning workouts with them at 5 […]
In honor of UCI’s 50th Anniversary, the School of Physical Sciences put together a special video highlighting the impact of the university’s founding faculty, staff and students.
The first class I attended at UCI, in the fall quarter of 1973, didn’t meet in a classroom. Though the university had officially opened in 1965, much of the campus was still on the to-do list. Some classes and instructors’ offices were situated in trailers in muddy fields adjacent to William Pereira’s stolidly futuristic buildings. […]