How often do the Homecoming king and queen actually get married? Maybe in the movies, but in real life? Jeff Fulkerson ’07 and Emily (Yee) Fulkerson ’07 were crowned Homecoming king and queen at UCI in 2007. And they weren’t even dating. That would come three years later. Eventually they married surrounded by many fellow […]
By the time he was 6, Rene Amel Peralta was already working full time in construction and odds jobs in Mexico, just trying to survive. By 13, he and his sister had been abandoned by their only parent and had made the treacherous journey across the border. But without immigration papers or an education, poverty […]
Six University of California, Irvine assistant professors have been chosen from a highly competitive cohort to receive 2015-16 UCI Hellman Fellowships, which support research by junior faculty members who show great promise. Their projects focus on self-driving cars, economic instability at the U.S.-Mexico border and the production of carbon-neutral fuels, among other topics.
UCI is first public institution to pair shorter degree time with postdoctoral positions
Alumna Maria Ortega Kummer ’81 and Kevin Kummer share their experiences at UCI as a young, married couple in 1979, and their recent campus visit. MARIA: The very first time I visited the UC Irvine campus, I felt a sense of “home” and that God was providing a special place for me to go to […]
They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. The same can be said of the adult brain. Its connections are hard to change, while in children, novel experiences rapidly mold new connections during critical periods of brain development.
She explains how to mend a broken heart – with stem cells – at first UCOP competition for grad students
UCI grad students are investigating ways to make earthquakes less destructive
Let Ashley Fong tell you. It’s the pitch the UCI doctoral student will make at the UCOP Grad Slam competition
Weian Zhao has created a device that dramatically improves detection of bacterial and viral invaders in blood samples