UCI’s promise

New programs guide a changing student population to success

Research A to Z

Life-changing undergraduate opportunity lets students explore, invent and experiment with everything from robotic coats to a video game of the human digestive tract

Unconventional Instruction

Innovative teachers shake up traditional lectures to engage students and improve learning

Experience Required

School of Social Ecology field study program yields real-life lessons

Informatics professor attends White House summit on computer science initiative

UCI informatics professor Debra Richardson was at the White House last week for the Computer Science for All summit, a progress report on President Barack Obama’s call for greater resources and actions to encourage more students to learn about computing. Richardson heads UCI’s CS1C@OC program, which was created with funding from the National Science Foundation to produce 100 well-trained computer […]

Planning a BIG Welcome Week

UCI opens its classrooms to the largest-ever incoming class of freshmen, transfer students

Meet the mentors

UCI professors who were also first-generation students form support system

Genomic improvisation

Musician-turned-UCI bioengineer strives for on-demand evolution enabling cells to conduct specific beneficial functions

UCI shatters research and philanthropic funding records

Half a billion dollars in grants and giving reflects growing support for campus vision

Gavin Herbert Eye Institute

Josephine Herbert Gleis commits $5 million to Gavin Herbert Eye Institute for vision research

Philanthropist is still making a difference as she approaches her 104th birthday