UCI Distinguished Professor Rubén Rumbaut elected AAAS fellow
Rubén Rumbaut, UC Irvine Distinguished Professor of sociology, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
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34 UCI students win Graduate Research Fellowships
UCI’s Department of Chemistry has received nine Graduate Research Fellowships from the National Science Foundation – among 34 bestowed campuswide and 2,000 nationwide. Another two fellowships went to the Department of Earth System Science, also in the School of Physical Sciences.
Making the most of life
Feeling blue? Anxious? Fatigued? Dr. Roger Walsh offers ‘Eight Ways to Wellbeing’
Obama to announce action on immigration
President Barack Obama is expected to announce at 8 p.m. Eastern time Thursday, Nov. 20, that he will use his executive authority to expand temporary protections to millions of undocumented immigrants. The following UC Irvine experts are available to comment: Leo Chavez, professor of anthropology, has studied immigration for more than 25 years. He has […]
Fresh influx of faculty
School of Medicine claims 14 of 77 new hires
On the right track
Community college students get a taste of university life in 10-day program
Reddit co-founder to speak at UC Irvine
EVENT: Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of the popular social news and entertainment site Reddit, will talk about using the Internet as a power for good, the topic of his new book, Without Their Permission: How the 21st Century Will Be Made, Not Managed. Ohanian’s entrepreneurial spirit has led him to create or fund more than 60 […]
Film by Roxanne Varzi to screen at L.A. festival
“Plastic Flowers Never Die,” a documentary by UC Irvine’s Roxanne Varzi, is playing at 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 19, at Laemmle’s Music Hall 3 in Beverly Hills as part of the sixth annual Noor Iranian Film Festival.
Bill Maurer named dean of School of Social Sciences
Irvine, Calif., May 14, 2013 – After a nationwide search, UC Irvine anthropology professor Bill Maurer has been named dean of the campus’s largest academic unit, the School of Social Sciences. “It’s gratifying when we find that the very best person for the position in the country is already right here,” said Chancellor Michael Drake. “I’m […]
UCI's Rubén Rumbaut elected to National Academy of Education
Professor is internationally known and widely cited for his research on children and young adults raised in immigrant families of diverse nationalities and socioeconomic classes.