UCI senior wins Truman Scholarship

Felipe Hernandez, a double major in music and political science, is one of 54 students nationwide to earn the public-service award.

UC Irvine Healthcare promotes colorectal cancer awareness

UC Irvine’s Dr. Michael J. Stamos says the nation’s second-leading cause of cancer death is preventable, treatable and curable.

UC Irvine News Brief: Physicist Jason Alicea wins Sloan Research Fellowship

The prestigious $50,000 award will help fund the assistant professor’s study of theoretical condensed-matter physics over a two-year period.

MLK Symposium

Politician Willie Brown will deliver the Dr. Joseph L. White Lecture as part of UC Irvine’s 29th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium. His talk, “California & Our Nation,” will highlight four days of activities honoring King’s legacy.

Highlights of 2011 at UCI

UC Irvine students, staff and faculty stepped up in the face of another year of budget challenges and fee increases with continued drive, talent and innovation. The results? More research breakthroughs, national honors and global outreach — even a second dodgeball world record. Here are snapshots of UCI 2011. As always, it was quite a […]

Newkirk Alumni Center

Building alumni support, brick by brick

Martha Newkirk, Ph.D. ’81 and her husband fund new center for former students.

UC Irvine News Brief: UCI water expert Bill Cooper is named an AAAS fellow

The civil & environmental engineering professor was honored by peers for his distinguished interdisciplinary contributions in environmental photochemistry and free-radical chemistry in nature systems and in water treatment.

UC Irvine News Brief: Pioneering molecular biologist Masayasu Nomura dies at 84

His studies of ribosomes provided key insights into the nature of antibiotic resistance and cell growth control.

Donation funds new Newkirk Alumni Center

Construction begins with groundbreaking. Center will open in fall 2012 to serve more than 140,000 former students.

Matt Lawrence

Plato meets pilsner

Like many a philosopher, UC Irvine alumnus Matt Lawrence, Ph.D. ’99 likes to ruminate on life’s deepest questions – preferably over a nice, cold beer. Now he’s paired his study of what ails humanity with his interest in ales – as well as lagers, stouts and porters. In Lawrence’s new book, Philosophy on Tap: Pint-Sized Puzzles for the […]