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UC Irvine's new law school program permits concurrent degree study, saving...

Under a new program developed at the 3-year-old UC Irvine School of Law, the interdisciplinary study of law may be combined with graduate research or a professional degree in a related discipline. The...

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Scientists invent lightest material on Earth. What now?

Scientists have invented a new material that is so lightweight it can sit atop a fluffy dandelion without crushing the little fuzzy seeds. It's so lightweight, styrofoam is 100 times heavier. It is so...

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Smart money

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grant of $4.17 million supports study of financial services in developing nations

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Testimonial: Leeza Gibbons – TV & radio personality, Alzheimer's patient...

You can help the cause of stem cell research and bring us closer to better, safer drugs and new treatments for countless human diseases and injuries. Tell us how you'd like to help:

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UCI honored for MS research

The National Multiple Sclerosis Society certified UC Irvine as an official center for MS comprehensive care Thursday in the Gottschalk Medical Plaza. Dr. Michael Demetriou , UC Irvine health care...

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The University of California Irvine Awarded 2011 Open Educational Quality...

The OpenCourseWare program at the University of California, Irvine was selected by an international jury pool as the winner of the Award for Institutions for The OPAL Awards 2011. The OPAL Awards,...

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Community Raises $80,000 for Armenian History Courses at UCI | Asbarez...

The spirit of giving was in the air this past Sunday at an event supporting the School of Humanities. Garo and Sylvie Tertzakian opened their home and their guests generously opened their hearts and...

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VIDEO: UCI Mind Teaser

Trailer video for the full version of a documentary that looks at what UCI is doing to fight Alzheimer's Disease.

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Prestigious construction industry award goes to UCI’s Engineering Hall

Project is hailed for successful application of design-build approach. The team behind construction of UC Irvine's Engineering Hall has won the esteemed 2011 Design-Build Institute of America award for...

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Playing the pain away: Alum helps hospitalized kids cope via video games

Ryan Sharpe '08 was a sickly kid. He estimates that he spent about two years of his childhood at CHOC Children's Hospital with pneumonia, recurrent bronchitis, blood poisoning and other illnesses. And...

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New itemUC Irvine School of Law Receives $1.5 Million for Raymond Pryke Chair...

The gift for the proposed chair is from Raymond Pryke, owner and publisher of Valleywide Newspapers, based in the High Desert community of Hesperia, Calif. Pryke's interest in publishing began in 1962...

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New Miss California USA plans to attend medical school

The Miss California USA winner for 2012 is a 22-year-old UC Irvine junior. A biking and motorcycle enthusiast, Natalie Pack said she joined the pageant on a lark and plans to attend medical school.

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Fall 2012 applications to UCI hit record high

Numbers seen as validation of campus's efforts to maintain quality amid funding cuts. Nearly 70,000 students from California, elsewhere in the nation and around the world have applied to UC Irvine for...

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UC Irvine homecoming in pictures

UC Irvine homecoming in pictures

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Anteaters' Tillie honored

UC Irvine outside hitter named national player of the week after being a force in two wins last week.

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Valerie Plame Comes Out of the Cold to UCI Law

​Valerie Plame, whose career as an undercover for the CIA ended when the Bush White House blew her cover in 2003, comes to the UC Irvine School of Law Feb. 17 to give a free talk about her experiences.

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What happens after people set themselves on fire?

Nicole Bernal, acting director of the UC Irvine Regional Burn Center, walked us through it. What happens to the body when it is set on fire? As you can imagine, it's an excruciatingly painful thing to...

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Brent Bushnell of Extreme Makeover Fame Talks at UCI Today About Immersive...

The next speaker geeking up UC Irvine's Center for Computer Games and Virtual Worlds this evening is a renaissance man when it comes to gaming, Internet start-ups, mobile platforms, online reality...

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Former Speaker of the House Comes to UCI

Students, staff, alumni and members of the community filed into Biological Sciences III on Thursday, Feb. 23 for this year’s Peltason Lecture on Democracy featuring former Speaker of the House, Dennis...

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When uncontrolled anger becomes a soldier's enemy

UC Irvine's Raymond Novaco is a leading authority on the psychology of anger and violence. He pioneered the field of anger management in the 1970s, later extending that work to hospitalized patients...

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Calif. AG appoints UC Irvine prof as monitor of banks

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Legal Newsline) - California Attorney General Kamala Harris announced Friday she has appointed a law professor to be the state's independent monitor of banks as part of a settlement...

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Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan to speak at UCI on May 2.

Join us for our 5th installment of the Living Peace Series on May 2, 2012 with Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan.

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F. Sherwood Rowland Leaves Legacy of Dedication That Goes Beyond Nobel...

CCST Senior Fellow F. Sherwood Rowland, who passed away on March 10 at age 84, was known for many significant accomplishments. A founding professor of the Chemistry Department at UC Irvine, he was a...

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NASA GRACE Data Hit Big Apple on World Water Day

To highlight declines in the world's groundwater supplies, a new visualization of Earth's groundwater reserves, created in part with space data from the joint NASA/German Aerospace Center (DLR) Gravity...

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UCI Libraries Announce Major Gift by Dr. Rosalyn Laudati

The UCI Libraries announce a major gift by Rosalyn M. Laudati, Ph.D to create a University Librarian's discretionary fund to support Special Collections and Archives and the Libraries' other high...

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UCI Alumnus Daniel Do-Khanh supports a campus effort to collect the stories...

Daniel Do-Khanh '93 has come a long way since he and his parents fled Vietnam during the fall of Saigon in April 1975, leaving behind their home and all of their belongings. Today he's a successful...

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UCI stem-cell grant for M.S.: $4.8 million

A UC Irvine researcher will receive $4.8 million to develop a potential treatment for multiple sclerosis using stem cells, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine announced Thursday.

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THE: 100 Under 50 university rankings: results

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FORBES: The World's Best New Universities

For the last eight years, Times Higher Education, a London magazine that tracks the higher ed market, has put out a list of what it deems to be the world’s top universities. Each year, THE gets more...

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Zhang receives 2011-12 Kassouf Fellowship

Cathy Zhang is a fourth-year UC Irvine graduate student who explores the emergence of international currencies and how the adoption of a foreign currency by local citizens affects domestic economies.

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Nanteza receives 2012 Faculty for the Future grant

Recognizing the link between science, technology, and socioeconomic development, as well as the key role of education in realizing individual potential, the Schlumberger Foundation has awarded a...

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Senior Class Gift Campaign '12

Recently, the Office of Annual Giving enjoyed its most successful Senior Class Gift Campaign in the past five years. With $24,481.77 in new gifts and commitments raised to date, its 2012 campaign...

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Shine the Light

UC Irvine's Gavin Herbert Eye Institute is creating a new model for an academic eye center that offers today's patients the most advanced care; teaches the physicians and researchers of tomorrow; and...

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2012 UCI Medalists are announced

Recipients will be recognized at 'Celebration of Stars' event in October Two couples and one individual have been selected to receive UC Irvine's most prestigious honor, the UCI Medal, which confers...

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Anteater Olympians abound

The Summer Olympics return July 27, and once again, UC Irvine athletes and coaches will proudly represent the United States. The men’s water polo and volleyball teams will field Anteater alumni, and...

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UCI's education department becomes a school

UC Irvine's education department got a major upgrade - it's now a School of Education. UCI officials announced the change today, several days after the UC Board of Regents voted to establish the school.

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UC Irvine Eye Institute honors donors

Orange County is a year or less away from opening the doors to its first academic eye institute. The Gavin Herbert Eye Institute at UC Irvine marked a construction milestone for its 70,000-square-foot...

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National Choreographers Initiative a lab for ballet at UC Irvine

Artistic director Molly Lynch doesn't do a lot of advertising to lure participants to the National Choreographers Initiative, now underway in the dance studios of UC Irvine. That's because she doesn't...

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State stem cell research funding agency awards $20 million to UCI, StemCells...

Efforts to begin human clinical trials using stem cells to treat cervical spinal cord injury in the U.S. received a $20 million boost Thursday, July 26, from the state’s stem cell research funding...

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UCI names founding dean for new School of Education

The scholar behind the evolution of UC Irvine’s top-ranking education department has been selected to lead the university’s newly created School of Education. Deborah Vandell, chair of UCI's Department...

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Outdoor theater-in-the-round debuts on campus for summer Shakespeare festival

An intimate, open-air Elizabethan theater has taken over UC Irvine’s Gateway Commons. The New Swan offers two-tier seating for 125 people and will host the campus’s inaugural New Swan Shakespeare...

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Gavin Herbert Eye Institute goal: Eliminate blindness

The concrete floors and steel beams are in place and the glass walls are being installed on a four-story building at the edge of UC Irvine. In a year, Orange County's first university-based eye...

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UCI faculty have Hollywood connections

Here's the pitch: A brilliant neuroscientist who can identify psychopaths by studying their brain imaging scans and genetic data makes a startling discovery. After learning there are eight killers...

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$1 Million Gift to Boost UC Irvine Athletics

A $1 million gift from Kathleen and Mark Santora to UC Irvine’s Department of Intercollegiate Athletics will support efforts to renovate and expand the strength and conditioning center used by nearly...

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UC Irvine recognizes recipients of university’s highest honor

Five new names have joined the ranks of Nobel laureates, Pulitzer Prize-winning authors, scientists and humanitarians recognized as recipients of UC Irvine’s highest honor, the UCI Medal. On Saturday,...

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Sue and Bill Gross kick off $8 million fundraising

UC Irvine has launched an $8 million fundraising campaign to complete expansions to the Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center. In an effort to galvanize the campaign, investing magnate and...

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90% of UCI Law grads pass bar

New school is already in the top rankings with high passage rate, just trailing No. 1 USC. UC Irvine School of Law's first graduating class is already competing with elite law schools, judging by one...

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The Mark of Greatness

Chancellor Michael Drake is Ace on the hill - OCMETRO

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Vietnamese American Alumni Group Reaches Fundraising Goal in Support of the...

The Vietnamese American Community Ambassadors (VACA), a chapter of the UC Irvine Alumni Association, has raised more than $25,000 in support of the UCI Libraries' internationally recognized Southeast...

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