Liz Toomey

Advocate for Anteaters

Liz Toomey, assistant vice chancellor of community & government relations, talks about the UC system’s impact on everyday life in California.

Drs. Nitin Bhatia with Wilhite and his family

Triumph out of tragedy

Four other people are known to have survived the kind of spinal injury suffered by Jon Wilhite in a triple-fatality car crash, and everything had to go just right for emergency personnel and UC Irvine Medical Center doctors before this story could be told.

UCI Law Library

Cracking the law books

UC Irvine School of Law opens to inaugural class of 61 students who will help develop innovative curriculum.

U.S. News again ranks UCI among top 50 universities nationwide

UC Irvine maintained its status among the nation’s top 50 colleges and universities in the U.S. News & World Report’s…

Pipe monitoring

UC Irvine engineers plan to outfit the local water system with sensors that will alert officials when and where pipes crack or break, hastening repair – thanks to nearly $5.7 million over three years from the National Institute of Standards & Technology and several local water groups.

Chemical bonding

A UC Irvine center that aims to make real-time videos of single molecules in action has been awarded $20 million over five years from the National Science Foundation.

India groundwater

Using satellite data, UC Irvine and NASA hydrologists have found that groundwater beneath northern India has been receding by as much as 1 foot per year over the past decade – and they believe human consumption is almost entirely to blame.

Francois Genard, Lynsey Moncrieff, Ariel Anson, Britney Marshman and Jayme Nagle

UCI meets D.C.

Students in internship program explore career paths in Washington.

Alzheimer's gene

A UC Irvine study has found that a gene called TOMM40 appears twice as often in people with Alzheimer’s disease than in those without it. Alzheimer’s, for which there is no cure, is the leading cause of elderly dementia.

LEED Gold Award

Donald Bren Hall, which houses UC Irvine’s School of Information & Computer Sciences, wins award for “green” building techniques.