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Victoria Lowerson Bredow, right, with Connie McGuire

Research solidarity with communities

Newkirk Center fellowship program teaches interdisciplinary graduate students a more collaborative, inclusive way to engage with groups they study

Increased use of household fireworks creates a public health hazard, UCI study finds

Impacts are most pronounced in Southern California’s low-income communities

UCI junior Neda Ibrahim

The environmental justice league

UCI student fellow with UC Carbon Neutrality Initiative establishes campus collective focused on community-driven, equity-based climate solutions

Healthcare worker in gloves drawing vaccine from a vial at Covid vaccination clinic at the Bren Events Center on the UCI campus

UCI pharmacists on the front lines

Long working behind the scenes in COVID-19 research and education, they’re now helping to distribute and administer the vaccine

Students walk along the student center terrace during the first day of fall classes on the UCI campus.

UCI receives most applications in campus history

Campus is also top choice for in-state, first-generation students for 3rd consecutive year

UCI study first to link disparities and ‘pharmacy deserts’ in California

Findings demonstrate how factors such as poverty further reduce access to pharmacies

Economics major Kevin Dominguez, a junior at the time, was part of the DREAM Project Fellowship program’s first cohort last year.

Working to make dreams a reality

Campus fellowship program lets undocumented students gain career-related experience – and be compensated

Antibody screening finds COVID-19 nearly 7 times more prevalent in O.C. than thought

UCI, OC Health Care Agency lead state’s first study to widely test representative sample of residents

Dean of School of Pharmaceurtical Sciences Jan Hirsch

Pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences dean endows Founding Partners Scholarship

For undergraduates, it will help promote diversity, inclusion within new UCI school

Michael Méndez, UCI assistant professor of urban planning & public policy

What’s next: The future of environmental justice

As with the coronavirus, low-income communities of color are most affected by unsustainable practices