Wendell Brase

Rare recognition secures its place among world’s environmentally outstanding institutions

Campus has been in top 10 for unmatched 12 straight years, with 4 first-place finishes

Only three other universities worldwide have achieved this status

UCI launches Green Labs certification program

UCI has been selected for The Princeton Review’s 2018 Green College Honor Roll, the fifth time it has made the list, which salutes universities earning a perfect score of 99 in The Princeton Review’s sustainability rating system. This year, 24 U.S. schools were listed, out of 629 evaluated, and UCI was the only UC campus included. […]

UCI is sustaining its outsized reputation for tracking and tackling environmental challenges

UCI was among more than 200 university and college campuses that signed the American Campuses Act on Climate Pledge today at the White House to demonstrate support for strong climate action by world leaders. With less than two weeks until President Barack Obama attends the climate change conference in Paris, the U.S. administration is building […]

UC Irvine is quadrupling the amount of green power it generates on-site with the addition of solar photovoltaic canopies on three campus parking structure roofs.

Vice Chancellor Wendell Brase is widely credited with curbing campus’s energy consumption and costs

UCI’s new and retrofitted Smart Labs employ occupancy and air-quality sensors to cut energy use by 50 percent.