UCI honors student Bria Biggs

Laker Girl grows up

UCI honors student Bria Biggs balances her work as a dancer with the Laker Girls and aspirations to someday practice sports medicine.

UCI students Scott Capps and Francesca Hopkins

Climate change for kids

UCI student nonprofit CLEAN Education conducts grade-appropriate lessons on climate change for elementary and middle school classrooms.

Ryan Ammerman

The comeback kid

Ryan Ammerman, the 6-foot-9-inch senior setter for UCI’s National Championship men’s volleyball team, looks forward to more competition in his future.

UCI awarded additional $45 million for regional infectious disease research center

UC Irvine has received its largest-ever renewal grant for $45 million from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to continue research dedicated to countering threats from bioterrorism agents and emerging infections.

Meng Yu

Using math to battle hearing loss

Doctoral student Meng Yu is using his academic skills to help the hearing-impaired. He is fine-tuning a set of mathematical computer instructions that pulls apart overlapping voices so a listener can hear each of them distinctly.

$21 million gift names UC Irvine Douglas Hospital

In recognition of the largest single cash gift in campus history, from the estate of M.A. Douglas, the university’s new seven-story hospital at UC Irvine Medical Center in Orange will be renamed UC Irvine Douglas Hospital.

Donald Bren Hall rooftop

Eye for light

What could be dismissed as another cold conference room is transformed into a cool, lithe place of possibility. A sprawling university becomes a dramatically lit stage when seen from the lobby of a science hall. When UC Irvine biological sciences undergraduate Hoang Xuan Pham turns his camera on the campus and elsewhere, he renders the […]

Marianne Lovejoy's basset hounds visit patients

Healing paws

Kahuna, a 2-year-old basset hound, parks his body next to the wheelchair of an elderly Latino woman, who takes hold of his neck. Her family talks excitedly in Spanish. It’s the first time she’s used her right hand since suffering a stroke. For Marianne Lovejoy, it’s another example of the healing power of dogs. Lovejoy, […]

Studying kids at home alone

Graduate student Maria Parente studies the effect of unsupervised after-school settings for children.

UC Irvine Student Center

Student Center design turns green to gold

UC Irvine Student Center earns kudos for its Earth-friendly design and construction, and it’s healthy for students, too.