Spirit catcher (2)

Alumnus Nikishna Polequaptewa receives Living Our Values Award for connecting American Indian students to campus

"Mavericks" on top of the white house seal

Political maverick paradox

Republican Sen. John McCain has staked his bid for the U.S. presidency on his reputation as a “political maverick,” a politician who is unafraid to cross party lines to “vote his conscience” on important policy issues.

New Professors

UCI welcomes new faculty

Experts on everything from reconstructing the human hand to interpreting the U.S. Constitution have joined the UC Irvine faculty in the last year.

A sense of dignity

Administrative assistants at UCI’s Neuropsychiatric Outpatient Services ensure patients receive care and respect

A sage to students

Living Our Values recipient Karina Hamilton leads SAGE Scholars to success

Natural-born leader

Fourth-year student Chetan Chowdhry spearheads service projects on campus

Up to half of hypertension patients are not reaching blood pressure goals

Nearly three-fourths of American adults with coronary heart disease, stroke, diabetes or other conditions that raise the risk for cardiovascular complications also have high blood pressure, according to a University of California, Irvine study. The report, which appears in the Dec. 24 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, also notes that although 75 percent […]

Erenkrantz named president of prominent open-source software foundation

UC Irvine doctoral student Justin Erenkrantz was recently appointed president of the Apache Software Foundation, one of the world’s largest…

Taking back the campus

CARE director Mandy Mount’s efforts to prevent sexual assault earn her the Living Our Values Award

Peace talks (2)

John Whiteley has been on a decades-long quest to find out how – and if – peace can be achieved in the nuclear age