Mary Roosevelt

James Weatherall, UC Irvine assistant professor of logic & philosophy of science, says that mathematical models for predicting market behavior “need to be used cautiously; otherwise, they tend to engender overconfidence.”

Chancellor’s Club founders pass torch to new generation of UCI supporters

Child sits at computer

Growing up, ‘geeking out’

Mizuko “Mimi” Ito spends a lot of time “geeking out” at her computer. She plays video games, trolls the Internet, chats, and visits social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter for hours on end. “My kids often say, ‘What’s it like to have a normal parent?’” she says with a laugh. Ito’s not going […]

Thuy Vo Dang

Making history

Student interviewers record the life stories of Vietnamese American immigrants for archival preservation.

UCI's law review

Inaugural law review is hot off the press

Compendium of scholarly articles focuses on innovation in legal education.

Sarah Rooney grips her new iPad

Tech initiative heralds future of medical education

As part of its new iMedEd Initiative, the medical school has developed a comprehensive, iPad-based curriculum, reinventing how medicine is taught in the 21st century and becoming the first in the nation to offer entering students a completely digital, interactive learning environment.

Update on ‘Week of Action’

Campus community rallies in support of quality education in California.

Matt Astrella

A cultural institution

Matt Astrella helps UCI Bookstore become center of campus literary life and home for new authors.

UCI's Digital Media & Learning Research Hub

Digital media & learning hub under way

Digital media use is transforming the way young people learn, UCI researcher Mizuko “Mimi” Ito has found, and schools should take note.

Hall Lecture

Dame Wendy Hall, computer science professor at the University of Southampton in England, will address “What’s Next for the Web?” in a lecture sponsored by UC Irvine’s Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences.

Gregory Weiss

Viruses become medical allies

Humans are surrounded by viruses, and most are harmlessly keeping bacteria under control. But some harmful viruses, such as the flu or common cold, can make us sick, while others such as Ebola or HIV can kill us.