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volunteer

College Corps Fellows from the inaugural cohort pose at the recognition event for service 450 service hours.

College Corps program enters second year

Student Fellows support climate action and food insecurity

Jeri Frederick, director of Center for Emeriti & Retirees

After years of service to UCI, retirees and emeriti continue to give back

70% volunteer in their communities, and 45% still serve or donate to campus programs

Future M.D. is already helping others

Aided by a scholarship, UCI senior Joshua Torosyan mentors, tutors and volunteers

Daniella McCahey

A heightened role for humanities

Community internships introduce Ph.D. students to nonacademic career options

UCI catches the volunteer vibe

50th Anniversary Anteater Spirit Rally to kick off two-year effort to rack up 50,000 service hours

A blue & golden anniversary

As UC Irvine turns 50, the campus community celebrates a ‘bright past’ while anticipating a ‘brilliant future’

47th commencement is season of firsts

Undergraduate business majors, Cal Teach grads and new traditions are highlights.

Gladson and Cooley visit the new orphanage in India

Blueprint for hope

Compared to the hospitals, research labs, university buildings and other important structures Rebekah Gladson has designed as campus architect and associate vice chancellor of UC Irvine, an orphanage in India might seem like a small, insignificant project. Not to her. For Gladson, whose visionary buildings have earned her the Design-Build Institute of America’s Brunelleschi Lifetime Achievement […]

Building better lives

When four members of the UC Irvine student chapter of Engineers Without Borders headed to Endana, Kenya, last August to see how they could best help the rural community, it proved to be a real-life pass/fail test in leadership. “We didn’t know what we were getting into,” recalls Morgan Bailey, EWB chapter president and a doctoral candidate […]

Students give others an (alternative) break

While their peers party on, some UCI students spend spring vacation working on various service projects, from planting a garden at a Native American reservation in San Diego County to putting the shine on the Golden Gate national park in San Francisco.