Students

UCI's Olive Tree Initiative participants

Olive Tree Initiative gets leadership award

Olive Tree Initiative student group hailed as a model of community leadership by Orange County Human Relations Commission.

Dr. Sheldon Greenfield

Dr. Sheldon Greenfield’s big year

While Dr. Sheldon Greenfield’s not quite a household name, he is making a significant impact. He’s helping run a thriving campus research center, and he’s engaged in high-level decision making in California and Washington, D.C., with international implications for biomedical research and healthcare.

A boat sails through the port of Freetown, Sierra Leone

Cleaning up the ‘blood diamond’ business

Richard Matthew works in Africa to curb violence, abuses linked to diamond trade.

Anthony Brock

A set of wheels for people in need

Just two months after Chancellor Michael Drake kicked off Free Wheelchair Mission’s 2008 national tour at UC Irvine, engineering students here were hard at work on a wheelchair prototype that would soon help people worldwide get around more easily.

Dr. Laura Mosqueda

Improving care for older adults

Dr. Laura Mosqueda takes her geriatric expertise on the road with the help of a $2 million grant. The goal: to help other medical specialists relate better to older patients.

Jorge De Paz

Creative electronics unveiled

A touch screen designed and built by UC Irvine students provides a glimpse of how simpler computer control could soon be at our fingertips. The project is one of about 40 on display at the UCI Senior Design Expo.

UCI Police Officer Ray Keith and a student discuss the bike policy

UCIPD honors outstanding officers, staff

Making campus safe for free speech, fulfilling work and the occasional party is all in a day’s work for UCI Police Department honorees.

A star on the horizon

The future looks bright for Allison Case ’06, soon to star in ‘Hair’ on Broadway.

Chancellor Michael V. Drake and Erwin Chemerinsky

Chancellor, law dean lead freshman seminar

UC Irvine Chancellor Michael Drake and Erwin Chemerinsky, founding dean of UCI Law School, team up to teach freshmen about civil rights.

A still from "Chants of Lotus"

From the director’s chair: a woman’s perspective

UC Irvine’s Film and Video Center showcases the accomplishments of five female filmmakers this month, including movie co-directed by UCI professor Fatimah Tobing Rony.