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Dalai Lama Scholars

Book cover: Patience and Pandemic

UCI students publish book about life under quarantine

Patience and Pandemic is a collection of photos, essays and poems

‘Making’ a difference

Dalai Lama Scholars are organizing third annual campus event to develop products for people with disabilities

Drawing an ACE

Dalai Lama Scholar Mary Sargious spearheads a project pairing UCI mentors with foster and first-generation teens

The Dalai Lama celebrating his 80th birthday

Dalai Lama’s 80th birthday party draws 18,000 guests united behind compassion

On Monday, the spiritual leader will continue the Global Compassion Summit with discussions at the Bren Events Center on healing a suffering planet and wise leadership

Dalai Lama Scholars: Then and now

Current and former honorees discuss their service projects and subsequent accomplishments – and the award’s lasting influence.

We check in with Kathy Dong, Jasmine Fang and Armaan Rowther in advance of the Tibetan spiritual leader’s summer visit to campus.

Soraya Azzawi

Focusing on refugees

Dalai Lama Scholar Soraya Azzawi is dedicated to raising awareness of human rights struggles and the plight of refugees around the world.

Jasmine Fang

Keen on kindness

Last summer, UC Irvine senior Jasmine Fang traveled to the rural Dominican Republic province of Elías Piña to build latrines for residents and teach public hygiene. She learned something too: the value of community. Evenings and weekends, families would gather to play basketball, jump rope or just socialize. Says Fang: “People in the Dominican Republic […]