Marnie Granados

Ready for PRIME time

An innovative UC Irvine School of Medicine program designed to lessen Latino healthcare disparities in California will produce its first graduates this year. PRIME-LC students will move into jobs as resident physicians and – it is hoped – herald a revolution in healthcare for a third of the state’s residents.

McKenzie book named a top read for entrepreneurs

UC Irvine economics and management professor Richard B. McKenzie’s book, “Why Popcorn Costs So Much at the Movies, and Other…

Frank B. Wilderson III

UCI author envisions change

In his recently released memoir, “Incognegro,” Frank Wilderson criticizes Nelson Mandela’s presidency for failing to deliver on its promises of social equality and significant reform.

UCI neuroscientist Hans Keirstead

UCI behind world's first embryonic stem cell study in humans

A therapy developed at UC Irvine that made paralyzed rats walk again will become the world’s first embryonic stem cell treatment tested in humans.

Meteorological society honors UCI engineering professor

Soroosh Sorooshian, Distinguished Professor of civil and environmental engineering at UC Irvine, has been selected as the 2009 Walter Orr…

Money if front of a stock ticker

UCI students excel in portfolio management

UC Irvine business students are using their investment prowess to beat professional money managers and help offset tuition costs, thanks to a competition believed to be the first funded with real money.

Frank B. Wilderson III

Envisioning change

In the 1990s, Frank B. Wilderson III lived the dying days of apartheid in South Africa, working as a university teacher, propagandist, and as one of two Americans elected to Nelson Mandela’s governing party, the African National Congress. In his recently released memoir, Incognegro, Wilderson, African American studies and drama professor, criticizes Mandela’s presidency for failing […]

Fraternal instincts

Mitchell Winans goes to Washington – after a stellar UCI career that earned him a Living Our Values Award

Fostering human rights

Carter Center internship allows honors student to study life in Middle East refugee camps

Returning to earth

Peter the Anteater’s back at UCI – after a trip aboard the space shuttle with astronaut Tracy Caldwell