Highlights of 2012 at UCI
Year brings scientific advances, national accolades, international outreach, student achievement and loss of campus stalwarts
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Magazine again ranks UCI among nation's top 50 universities
U.S. News & World Report puts it 44th, a one-place improvement over last year. Among public institutions alone, it comes in 12th.
Study ranks UCI law school faculty seventh nationally in scholarly impact
Just two months after graduating its first class the school comes in seventh nationally.
UC Irvine Medical Center is ranked among America's best for 12th year in a row
Annual US News hospital survey includes UC Irvine program in geriatrics among the best in the nation.
UCI ranks first in the nation on list of top 100 universities under 50 years old
Times Higher Education analysis puts it fourth among young institutions worldwide.
UCI ranked fourth among 100 young universities worldwide
The Times Higher Education effort is intended to highlight the growth of young institutions with global ambitions.
Home court advantage
Over the past 40 years, UC Irvine’s tennis programs have boasted numerous national championships, conference titles and All-American performers. In their efforts to continue this tradition, coaches Mike Edles and Trevor Kronemann rely on extensive personal experience: As former UCI student-athletes themselves, they contributed much to this record of tennis excellence.
They had the whole world in their hands
On the occasion of the Earth system science department’s 20th anniversary, Chancellor Emeritus Ralph Cicerone says UCI was the first to study human impact on the environment in an interdisciplinary way.
Embarking on a new adventure
Anthropology professor Bill Maurer takes the reins as associate dean in School of Social Sciences.
Medical center again among top in America
UC Irvine Medical Center’s programs in gynecology, urology, cancer and kidney disease among top in the country, according to U.S. News & World Report.