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Jeffrey Wasserstrom, professor and chair of UC Irvine’s Department of History, is an internationally recognized expert on Chinese history and culture. A frequent traveler to that nation, he this year...
View ArticleWhose university is this, anyway? Expert panel to discuss
EVENT: In an era of dwindling state funding, what and who do public universities stand for? What forms of knowledge do they rightfully represent? How and for what do we train our students? How and by...
View ArticleCampus festival to mark Lunar New Year
Lunar New Year, considered the most important holiday in many Asian cultures, kicked off Sunday, Feb. 10, with parades, outdoor festivals and parties in communities from Garden Grove’s Little Saigon to...
View ArticleMathematician garners UCI alumni group’s Extraordinarius award
Irvine, Calif., Feb. 28, 2013 – Edward Thorp has gambled in life – and won. But it wasn’t luck that brought him success. It was his keen understanding of mathematics, probability and statistics. A...
View ArticleUCI’s new School of Education jumps in U.S. News’ graduate school ranking
Irvine, Calif., March 12, 2013 – UC Irvine’s School of Education is among a number of campus graduate programs moving up in U.S. News & World Report’s 2014 ranking of “Best Graduate Schools,”...
View ArticleCitizen of the world
Georges Van Den Abbeele jokingly calls himself a “Euro-cowboy.” Born in Belgium, he was raised in Alberta, Canada – a “prairie province” that hosts the annual Calgary Stampede – and speaks six...
View ArticleQuite the character
Last summer, during a production of “The Merchant of Venice” at UC Irvine’s New Swan Shakespeare Festival, Richard Brestoff – the UCI drama professor who won accolades for his portrayal of the vengeful...
View ArticleUC Irvine to host Vietnamese International Film Festival screenings
EVENT: The sixth biennial Vietnamese International Film Festival kicks off this week with screenings at UC Irvine. The eight-day program features 69 movies by Vietnamese and Vietnamese diaspora...
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Bridget Cooks honored for work on African American art history
Bridget Cooks will get the first James A. Porter & David C. Driskell Book Award in African American Art History for “Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans & the American Art Museum.” An...
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UCI professors team up with National Park Service on Latino heritage projects
The National Park Service recently launched “American Latinos & the Making of the United States: A Theme Study,” which focuses on the contributions of Latinos to national heritage and culture. The...
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Samuel McCulloch, founding humanities dean and campus historian, dies at 96
Samuel McCulloch, founding dean of the UC Irvine School of Humanities and professor emeritus of history, died May 13. He was 96. An authority on the British Empire, McCulloch earned a Ph.D. in history...
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Humanities duo named Dickson Emeriti Professors
English professor J. Hillis Miller (left) and history professor Keith L. Nelson (right) have been appointed Edward A. Dickson Emeriti Professors. The endowed professorships, established to honor former...
View ArticleCommencement 2013: By the numbers
UC Irvine’s 2013 commencement season is at hand, and while graduates and their families anticipate that journey to the stage and congratulatory handshake, campus personnel work feverishly behind the...
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Film by Roxanne Varzi to screen at L.A. festival
“Plastic Flowers Never Die,” a documentary by UC Irvine’s Roxanne Varzi, is playing at 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 19, at Laemmle’s Music Hall 3 in Beverly Hills as part of the sixth annual Noor Iranian Film...
View ArticleThe spooky side of science
Hundreds of researchers at UC Irvine work diligently to make discoveries that can literally change the world and how we see it. But some of their projects are, well, just a little bit creepy. We’re...
View ArticleHighlights of 2013 at UCI
When Daniel G. Aldrich Jr. took the reins as founding chancellor at UC Irvine in 1965, he envisioned a modern, world-class university dedicated to addressing contemporary issues and preparing students...
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Garden Grove students tour Southeast Asian Archive
Garden Grove students view items from the UCI Libraries’ Southeast Asian Archive. On Thursday, Jan. 9, the inaugural Vietnamese American history class at Garden Grove High School toured UC Irvine’s...
View ArticleUCI Center for Psychology & Law forum will address use of rap lyrics in...
EVENT: UC Irvine’s Center for Psychology & Law and the Newkirk Center for Science & Society are hosting “Rap on Trial,” a discussion panel addressing the recent practice of using rap lyrics as...
View ArticlePeace Week gets underway
Two undergraduates dedicated to conflict resolution on campus have been awarded the 2013-14 XIV Dalai Lama Endowed Scholarship, established at UC Irvine in 2004 to recognize students committed to...
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The Red Planet in black and white
This image of Mars transmitted by NASA’s Curiosity shows the rover’s shadow in the foreground and, in the distance, Mount Sharp. The 3.4-mile-high peak — taller than California’s Mount Whitney — is the...
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