Orange County not yet ready to move into less restrictive yellow tier

KNBC (City News Service), April 21, 2021

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UCI materials scientists discover design secrets of nearly indestructible insect

Southern California’s diabolical ironclad beetle can even survive being run over by car

A Midsummer Night’s Zoom

Beloved Shakespeare play transformed for a virtual world

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UCI Podcast: Top Chef winner and UCI alumna Melissa King dishes out college cooking tips

Melissa King, a 2005 UCI alumna with a bachelor’s degree in cognitive sciences, won Top Chef: All-Stars L.A., the 17th season of the show. In this episode of the UCI Podcast, King dishes on the final moments of the show and her unique California-Asian culinary style. She also shares cooking tips for college students and […]

UCI to celebrate Lunar New Year

EVENT: UCI will celebrate the upcoming Lunar New Year – heralding the Year of the Rat – with an academic discussion, multicultural entertainment, artistic demonstrations, interactive workshops, a Disney-sponsored raffle, lion and dragon parades, food, a laser light show and more. WHEN/WHERE: 2-6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 21, at the Multipurpose Academic & Administrative Building (bldg. […]

The Anteater butterfly effect

‘Small token of appreciation’ leads to surprise gifts for new UCI medical students

Arts trek

Class boldly goes on 1,900-mile mission to explore artworks embedded in the environment

Grad student working on ‘superbug kryptonite’ wins UCI Grad Slam, will compete systemwide

Many insects are equipped with a natural defense mechanism against harmful pathogens: Their wings are covered with nanoscale spikes – 1,000 times thinner than a human hair – that kill bacteria and fungi cells. UCI’s 2019 winner of the University of California Grad Slam competition is mimicking these antimicrobial surfaces in the lab for potential […]

UCI arts dean, special guests unveil long-hidden works from highly anticipated museum

EVENT: UCI hosts the premiere public exhibit of 50 long-hidden paintings and sculptures from the campus’s forthcoming Institute and Museum for California Art. UCI IMCA will ultimately house two extraordinary gifts, The Buck Collection and The Irvine Museum Collection, totaling more than 4,400 works by major California artists spanning every period from impressionism to now. WHEN/WHERE: 1-5 […]

Drama alumna Beth Malone appears this spring as the Angel

Now Appearing: The UCI Company

A successful and wide-ranging arts program means a growing number of alumni are thriving on Broadway