minorities

UCI strives to boost number of minority students earning STEM degrees

UCI is ranked No. 3 by The Chronicle of Higher Education among public doctorate-awarding institutions with the largest increases in percentage of underrepresented minorities in the student body. The campus is also the only member of the prestigious Association of American Universities in the top 10. The 62-member AAU comprises the country’s leading research institutions. […]

Magazine surveys affordability, academic excellence and early-career earnings

Now 25 years old, UCI’s Summer Scholars Transfer Institute continues to empower local community college students

June Ahn, UCI associate professor of education, has been awarded a two-year, $397,000 grant from the Institute of Education Sciences under its researcher-practitioner partnerships program. His project will explore how to scale mentorship via a text messaging application that incorporates social and emotional supports to help stem “summer melt,” in which motivated and academically prepared […]

Incident increases associated with elevated blood pressure in black, Latino adults

Programs aim to boost number of minority students seeking, earning biomedical doctorates

Multicultural, first-gen doctoral student strives to reconcile academia and the creative arts

Pulitzer Prize-winning author will read from his fiction and nonfiction works

Alumna encourages other minority women to enter technology and engineering fields