Last Tuesday, May 31, 2016, Mark Deppe was awarded the title of ANTrepreneur of the Year at UC Irvine Blackstone LaunchPad’s second annual awards ceremony. The celebration of work in the local entrepreneurial community, held at Applied Innovation’s The Cove, featured over 25 other awards for startups and advocates of […]
Many students utilize various resources offered at UCI, and we are proud to share the story of a young man, Alfonso Cruz Ortiz, who took full advantage of programs on campus that played key part in his success. Recently he was appointed into the very prestigious UCI Medical School, and […]
The Division of Undergraduate Education was happy to support this year’s TEDxUCIrvine event. Held at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts Samueli Theater, a full house gathered to listen and learn from experts about Core Conversations. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. […]
On May 20th, the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) held its 23rd Annual Symposium. The daylong event featured over 700 projects completed collaboratively or individually by over 1000 individual students across all disciplines represented at UCI. The Symposium provides an opportunity for undergraduates from all disciplines to present their research […]
LARC and the Office of the Vice Provost of Teaching and Learning are pleased to share preliminary results of this year’s Learning Assistant pilot program. What are LAs? Learning Assistants are undergraduate students who are trained to help transform undergraduate courses to include small groups of students articulating, defending and […]
The Blum Center For Poverty Alleviation held the 2nd part of the two-part conference on Global Security at UC Irvine on May 5-6. Focusing on topics relating to food security, sustainability, and development, the conference featured speakers such as Janet Napolitano, Nora Gilbert, and Paula Daniels. Dr. Wendy Slusser from […]
This year, UCI garnered 5 recipients, 1 alternate, and 6 semi-finalists for the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. These twelve students represent a record-setting showing for Anteaters in the Fulbright competition. We also had our first Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship winner in 6 years and, for the first time, a finalist […]
What if you were bitten by a radioactive spider? This is technically the safest way to become a superhero, according to Michael Dennin, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California, Irvine. In his classes, Dennin often uses superheroes to explain the language and processes of science. […]
GFS: Sustainable Solutions is the second part of the two-part conference Global Food Security series held at UC Irvine. The Global Food Security Summit will assemble global leaders, practitioners, and academics from across the University of California system, to think critically about the new frameworks designed to address this challenge at […]
In an effort to make study abroad a more accessible part of every undergraduate’s academic experience, the University of California Education Abroad Program (UCEAP) invited student support offices and academic departments across all UC campuses to submit grant proposals that would support underrepresented student cohorts to study abroad and address […]