A person with a visual disability using Aira to access visual displays in an airport.

Tech for people with visual disabilities

UCI researchers collaborate with Toyota to provide Aira, a visual interpreter service, to the local community during the pandemic

UCI alum Vincent Steckler speaking to student in a lecture hall.

Alumnus Vincent Steckler ’80 and his wife donate $10.4 million to UCI

Gift will support art history students, create ICS center promoting inclusiveness

UCI engineers reveal molecular secrets of cephalopod powers

Light-manipulating proteins potentially useful in optics, electronics and medicine

Image of a male instructor looking at monitors on desks with peoples faces.

A new chapter in teaching

UCI School of Education helps students, instructors navigate changing landscape

Gates Foundation grant funds study of factors that prompt youth interest in certain careers

June Ahn, associate professor of education, has received a three-year, $500,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to conduct a study identifying factors that motivate youth toward occupational careers. Ahn and his team will be working with K-12 after-school program educators and participants to gain an understanding of the key experiences that shape […]

UCI Down syndrome expert Dr. Ira T. Lott examines ABC-DS participant Jeremy Throckmorton

NIH awards over $100 million to examine biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease in adults with Down syndrome

Project aims to improve quality of life of aging populations

In the Know

Students in the burgeoning AI@UCI Club form fast friendships while sharing knowledge and mentoring each other in the applications of artificial intelligence

Building Tomorrow’s AI: Smarter and Fairer

UCI researchers forge local and international partnerships to make artificial intelligence work better for actual people in real life

Shohreh Bozorgmehri, director of student and academic services in UCI’s Office of Information Technology

Group is established to connect, inspire and empower UCI women in technology

Organization will strengthen community and focus on diversity, equality and inclusion

Permanent WFH sounds great. But it’s harder than it sounds

CNN, July 29, 2020