The Newkirk Alumni Center

Coming home to an open house

Homecoming attendees get chance to tour the new Newkirk Alumni Center

Jeffrey Wasserstrom

Title company

Newest Chancellor’s and Distinguished professors join select group

Highlights of 2012 at UCI

Year brings scientific advances, national accolades, international outreach, student achievement and loss of campus stalwarts

Natalia Milovantseva

E-waste warrior

Fulbright scholar hopes to foster safe recycling, disposal of outdated electronics

Chef Paul Baca preparing Thanksgiving dinner

'Eaters on campus for T-Day still get feast

UCI staff, leadership will host a traditional meal for students not home for the holiday

Carla Plaza

Against all odds

No one can tell Carla Plaza she hasn’t earned the right to a college education. The 35-year-old senior in biochemistry & molecular biology at UC Irvine is months away from getting a bachelor’s degree — the first in her family to do so — and taking another step toward her childhood dream of becoming a […]

Dancers and Singers at the 'Celebration of Stars'

‘A Celebration of Stars' honors UCI Medalists

UC Irvine’s premier annual event highlights campus contributions.

School of Biological Sciences garners $1.6 million in GAANN awards

Three departments – developmental & cell biology, neurobiology & behavior and ecology & evolutionary biology – receive funding for 12 three-year graduate fellowships.

Physical sciences receives $1.6 million in graduate student funding

Federal grant will support six fellows annually for three years in each of two programs: chemical synthesis and mathematics.

A laser focus on cell research

Biomedical engineer Elliot Botvinick uses optical tweezers to understand how disease takes hold