Melissa Beck

Superwoman Ambition

UCIAA President Melissa Beck seeks to engage alumni and prompt recognizable change in the world

Jeri Frederick, director of Center for Emeriti & Retirees

After years of service to UCI, retirees and emeriti continue to give back

70% volunteer in their communities, and 45% still serve or donate to campus programs

Segerstrom Center for the Arts announces live indoor performances in July and August

Broadway World, July 13, 2021

says Joyce Yu-Chia Lee, UCI clinical professor of health sciences and an advanced practice pharmacist

UCI professor receives American College of Clinical Pharmacy award

Joyce Yu-Chia Lee is the first faculty member to earn the prestigious honor

Victoria Lowerson Bredow, right, with Connie McGuire

Research solidarity with communities

Newkirk Center fellowship program teaches interdisciplinary graduate students a more collaborative, inclusive way to engage with groups they study

Bri Bri Finley, a UCI postdoctoral scholar in ecology & evolutionary biology, and team members make their way through mustard plants to their research plots on Loma Ridge.

Fieldwork for a better future

UCI partners with Irvine Ranch Conservancy for climate change adaptation study of plant and microbial ecosystems on Loma Ridge

Manuella Oliveira Yassa, director of outreach and education at UCI’s Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Nurturing an early interest in neuroscience

Both inspired and supported by UCI’s Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, a local high schooler launches a group for teens fascinated by the brain

Students wearing masks walking on campus

Lessons Learned

UCI academic leaders and students share key takeaways from an unprecedented year

Stock photo, graduation cap and tassle

Lifting Prisoners Into a Brighter Future

UCI launches the UC system’s first B.A. program for incarcerated individuals

Alumna Denise To ’95

The Promise Keeper

Alumna Denise To ’95 leads a forensics team that helps bring home and identify the remains of America’s war dead