UC Irvine News Brief: Summer arts academy for high school kids debuts June 27

Through July 8, teens will participate in intensive, hands-on workshops in dance, drama or digital arts led by faculty and graduate students.

Joseph S. Lewis III

New arts dean enjoys creative mix

New arts dean hopes to raise school’s profile by ‘bringing different kinds of people together.’

Arts production gives “Abraham” a modern spin

“Abraham & Isaac in Jerusalem,” a new Claire Trevor School of the Arts production about faith, aims to bring people together — in the theater and real world.

Woman on the beach

Stopping skin cancer before it starts

UCI’s new pigmented lesion program monitors people at high risk of dermatological cancer.

Rafe Day

‘Parts Dude’ creates chemistry

Rafe Day, a technician with Down syndrome, is important to the mix in physical sciences lab

New arts dean

Acclaimed artist and academic administrator from Alfred University in New York also is known as a builder of community partnerships.

Healing hearts in rural China

Summer stint in rural China combines research with adventure

Claire Trevor School of the Arts breaks ground for Media Arts Center

The shovels were out in force Thursday, Feb. 21, as UC Irvine’s Claire Trevor School of the Arts broke ground…

National Endowment for the Arts recognizes MFA fiction writing student

Dave Morris, a graduate student in UCI’s MFA fiction writing program, has won a $25,000 Literature Fellowship from the National…

UCI receives grant to improve English and arts instruction in K-2 classrooms

UC Irvine could one day claim it helped discover the next Picasso and Shakespeare, thanks to a $828,219 grant to…