UCI is No. 30 among the top 50 universities in the country for awarding Ph.D.s in the arts and humanities, according to a recent analysis by The Chronicle of Higher Education. For the 2014-15 academic year, UCI conferred 51 doctoral degrees in humanities and two in the arts. “For decades now, we have been a primary international destination for the […]
UCI is one of 12 member universities active in the Association of American Universities‘ STEM Education Network chosen to receive up to $50,000 along with UCI matching funds to further existing efforts to improve undergraduate education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The network is an outgrowth of the AAU Undergraduate STEM Education Initiative, launched in […]
Alumna encourages other minority women to enter technology and engineering fields
Beall Center exhibit showcases the few constraints of ‘expanded media arts’ and how the field intertwines with the human experience
A UCI team led by Padhraic Smyth, professor of computer science and director of the UCI Data Science Initiative, is one of 16 interdisciplinary groups to share $47 million awarded as part of the National Science Foundation Research Traineeship program. UCI will receive $2.9 million, primarily in the form of graduate student fellowships, to develop “team science […]
Middle school students develop mobile apps to address challenges posed by National Academy of Engineering
NASA has awarded UCI $1.25 million as part of a new $5 million center at Cal State Los Angeles for STEM education, with an emphasis on minority students in areas such as climate change, hydrology, computational physics and data science.
UC Irvine has long been committed to gender equity in science, technology, engineering and math
Kika Friend helps prepare students in UCI’s California Alliance Minority Participation program for careers in math and science.
Underrepresented students get a head start on research projects and form bonds in UCI summer prep programs.