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UCI’s first female athletic director remembers the early days of Anteater athletics and her journey into a world where women were scarce

https://news.uci.edu/2022/12/12/uci-podcast-a-walk-down-memory-lane-with-linda-dempsay/

A year of groundbreaking growth and accomplishments

https://news.uci.edu/2022/12/01/2022-year-in-review-leading-initiatives/

Co-authors of Mink’s biography share history of law designed to prevent discrimination on the basis of sex

https://news.uci.edu/2022/06/22/uci-podcast-patsy-minks-role-in-title-ix-passage/

The director of intercollegiate athletics discusses her journey, the label of ‘pioneer,’ what has changed and what still needs to change for women in sports

https://news.uci.edu/2022/03/28/uci-podcast-celebrating-paula-smiths-unique-path-on-the-50th-anniversary-of-title-ix/

It’s like radio roulette. On KUCI, Orange County’s off-kilter FM outpost, listeners never quite know what to expect. The smorgasbord of audio oddities played during the station’s first half...

https://news.uci.edu/kuci50th/

Chang Liu, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, has been named a 2019 Moore Inventor Fellow by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. He will receive $825,000 over three years in suppor...

https://news.uci.edu/2019/10/15/biomedical-engineer-chang-liu-named-a-moore-inventor-fellow/

EVENT: Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, one of the most important events leading to the modern fight for LGBTQ rights in the United States, UCI presents the art exhibit ...

https://news.uci.edu/2019/04/30/art-exhibit-commemorating-stonewall-tells-of-mid-20th-century-lgbtq-experience/

Innovative icon to serve as Distinguished Professor in Claire Trevor School of the Arts

https://news.uci.edu/2016/07/06/internationally-acclaimed-choreographer-lar-lubovitch-joins-uci-dance-faculty/

University of California, Irvine was recognized Thursday, June 9, for innovative programming at the Association of California Cities – Orange County’s 5th Annual Golden Hub of Innovation Awar...

https://news.uci.edu/2016/06/13/ucis-fifty-for-50-community-engagement-challenge-wins-award/

Project aims to improve quality, quantity of connected learning opportunities

https://news.uci.edu/2016/05/18/uci-gets-grant-to-study-effectiveness-of-youth-programs-offered-by-us-libraries/

EVENT: “California Modern: Irvine Style” will explore the master plans for UCI and Irvine in relation to American modernism and higher education and early 1960s Utopianism. The symposium an...

https://news.uci.edu/2016/04/11/uci-to-host-symposium-exhibits-on-legacy-of-architect-william-pereira/

Mobile measurements pinpoint greenhouse gas hot spots

https://news.uci.edu/2016/02/24/uci-maps-methane-leaks-across-los-angeles-basin/

A change in leadership and a golden anniversary mark the start of a new era – and vision – for the university

https://news.uci.edu/magazines/articles/ucis-next-50/

Appearances by UCI mascot are in honor of campus’s 50th anniversary

https://news.uci.edu/2015/12/10/peter-the-anteater-featured-in-newport-beach-boat-parade-and-rose-parade/

UCI celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2015, which also saw the investiture of a sixth chancellor, the Dalai Lama’s third visit to campus and a continued reign as the nation’s top ‘Cool Sch...

https://news.uci.edu/2015/12/10/the-year-that-was/

Peter the Anteater gets impromptu 50th birthday party at UCI basketball game, kicking off a season of personal appearances

https://news.uci.edu/2015/11/24/surprise/

Festival of Discovery draws enthusiastic crowds to UCI’s anniversary party

https://news.uci.edu/2015/10/06/50-never-looked-so-good/

EVENT:  Fifty years after passage of the landmark Immigration & Nationality Act, an array of expert scholars, journalists, historians and lawyers will gather for a two-day conference at UCI to...

https://news.uci.edu/2015/09/30/first-symposium-in-uci-series-to-explore-us-immigration-policy/

50th anniversary publication reveals little-known facts about campus’s bright past, brilliant future

https://news.uci.edu/2015/09/16/test-your-uci-iq/

Joseph L. White, ‘father of black psychology,’ is honored by American Psychological Association

https://news.uci.edu/2015/09/02/a-labor-of-love/

Irvine, Calif., Aug. 26, 2015 — The Institute for Clinical & Translational Science at the University of California, Irvine will receive $19 million over four years from the National Institutes ...

https://news.uci.edu/2015/08/26/ucis-institute-for-clinical-translational-science-gets-19-million-from-nih/

Ancient Chinese practice lowers blood pressure, may lessen stroke, heart disease risks

https://news.uci.edu/2015/08/19/hypertensive-patients-benefit-from-acupuncture-treatments-uci-study-finds/

Researchers from the University of California, Irvine and NASA have uncovered a remarkably strong link between high wildfire risk in the Amazon basin and the devastating hurricanes that ravage No...

https://news.uci.edu/2015/08/18/uci-nasa-researchers-find-link-between-amazon-fire-risk-devastating-hurricanes/

Study by UCI sociologist is first to tie low natal weight to biological, social factors three generations deep

https://news.uci.edu/2015/08/17/womans-health-education-and-marital-status-pre-pregnancy-affect-birth-weight-of-her-daughters-granddaughters/

Participants are sought for safety study on the use of retinal progenitors in the eye

https://news.uci.edu/2015/08/12/uci-led-team-begins-first-clinical-trial-of-stem-cell-based-retinitis-pigmentosa-treatmentuci-led-team-begins-first-clinical-trial-of-stem-cell-based-retinitis-pigmentosa-treatment/

Campus is first in Sierra magazine’s green schools ranking for second year in a row

https://news.uci.edu/2015/08/11/were-the-coolest/

Clayton Garrison, founding dean of the School of Fine Arts at the University of California, Irvine, died July 27 at the age of 93. He was a visionary stage director, choreographer and theater pro...

https://news.uci.edu/2015/08/07/inaugural-dean-of-uci-arts-school-dies-at-93/

Stacked in gravity-defying arrangements in the western San Bernardino Mountains, near the San Andreas Fault, granite boulders that should have been toppled by earthquakes long ago resolutely rema...

https://news.uci.edu/2015/08/04/precariously-balanced-rocks-provide-clues-for-unearthing-underground-fault-connections/

Former U.S. Rep. John B.T. Campbell III has been appointed the 2015-16 Dean’s Visiting Professor in the School of Social Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. Previously held by for...

https://news.uci.edu/2015/07/22/former-congressman-named-deans-visiting-professor-in-uci-school-of-social-sciences/

The 11 percent decrease in climate change-causing carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S. between 2007 and 2013 was caused by the global financial recession – not the reduced use of coal, research...

https://news.uci.edu/2015/07/21/economic-slump-not-natural-gas-boom-responsible-for-drop-in-co2-emissions/

Six University of California, Irvine assistant professors have been chosen from a highly competitive cohort to receive 2015-16 UCI Hellman Fellowships, which support research by junior faculty me...

https://news.uci.edu/2015/07/16/6-junior-faculty-members-named-2015-16-uci-hellman-fellows/

UC Irvine is a proud member of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, which supports alumni relations, communications, development and marketing professionals at educational instit...

https://news.uci.edu/2015/07/04/uci-wins-six-2015-case-district-vii-awards-of-excellence/

More than 500 community and business leaders came together to honor wellness advocate Susan Samueli and other health heroes of the Susan Samueli Center for Integrative Medicine at the UC Irvine H...

https://news.uci.edu/2015/06/26/community-celebrates-health-heroes-with-record-1-75-million-in-support/

Contrary to popular belief, minority children are not overrepresented in special education classrooms and are actually less likely to be diagnosed with and treated for disabilities than white chi...

https://news.uci.edu/2015/06/24/minority-children-underrepresented-in-special-ed-uci-penn-state-study-concludes/

UCI is first public institution to pair shorter degree time with postdoctoral positions

https://news.uci.edu/2015/06/23/mellon-foundation-grants-2-7-million-to-school-of-humanities-graduate-programs/

By identifying in spinal fluid how the characteristic mutant proteins of Huntington’s disease spread from cell to cell, UC Irvine scientists and colleagues have created a new method to quickly ...

https://news.uci.edu/2015/06/23/uci-led-study-demonstrates-how-huntingtons-disease-proteins-spread-from-cell-to-cell-2/

Being seen by others as black – regardless of whether or not one personally identifies as such – increases the likelihood of arrest, according to a new study from UC Irvine and Stanford Unive...

https://news.uci.edu/2015/06/18/odds-of-arrest-3-times-higher-for-people-viewed-as-black-study-finds/

Figures offer sneak peek at circumstances behind pomp of UCI’s 50th graduation celebration

https://news.uci.edu/2015/06/16/commencement-2015-by-the-numbers-2/

Brain inflammation caused by chronic nerve pain alters activity in regions that regulate mood and motivation, suggesting for the first time that a direct biophysical link exists between long-term...

https://news.uci.edu/2015/06/09/uc-study-links-brain-inflammation-triggered-by-chronic-pain-to-anxiety-and-depression/

Nobel laureate and former UC Irvine biochemist Irwin “Ernie” Rose, who did groundbreaking work on enzymes critical to breaking down and disposing of unwanted proteins in plants and animals, h...

https://news.uci.edu/2015/06/02/nobel-laureate-irwin-rose-dead-at-88/

Figures offer sneak peek at circumstances behind pomp of UCI’s 50th graduation celebration

https://news.uci.edu/2015/06/02/commencement-2015-by-the-numbers/

This year's commencement for UCI’s 50th graduating class will stretch over four days in the Bren Events Center, and 7,057 Anteaters will participate. Ten school-based events will be held, featu...

https://news.uci.edu/2015/06/01/uc-irvine-announces-2015-commencement-schedule/

Does putting same-sex marriage in the public spotlight impede future policy gains for gay and lesbian couples? A new study says no, contrary to previous research on the topic. The findings, which...

https://news.uci.edu/2015/06/01/political-science-study-co-authored-by-uci-debunks-idea-of-public-opinion-backlash/

The Millennium Drought in southeastern Australia forced Greater Melbourne, a city of 4.3 million people, to successfully implement innovations that hold critical lessons for water-stressed region...

https://news.uci.edu/2015/05/26/blueprint-for-a-thirsty-world-from-down-under/

Inducing a sense of awe in people can promote altruistic, helpful and positive social behavior, according to new research led by UC Irvine psychologist Paul Piff.

https://news.uci.edu/2015/05/19/awe-promotes-altruistic-behavior-uci-led-study-finds/

Business school celebrates grand opening of 78,000-square-foot building

https://news.uci.edu/2015/05/18/return-on-investment/

Nearly 5,000 Anteaters filled the right-field seats at Angel Stadium of Anaheim on Saturday, May 9, wearing blue-and-gold, limited-edition baseball caps for “UCI Night with the Angels.”

https://news.uci.edu/2015/05/11/anteaters-in-the-outfield/

Brain handles day- and nighttime optical signals the same, reacts quickly to loss of input

https://news.uci.edu/2015/05/11/uci-study-sheds-new-light-on-low-light-vision-could-aid-people-with-retinal-deficits/

A first-of-its-kind stem cell-based treatment for retinitis pigmentosa developed by UC Irvine’s Dr. Henry Klassen, Dr. Jing Yang and colleagues has received consent from the U.S. Food & Drug Ad...

https://news.uci.edu/2015/05/07/fda-greenlights-uci-clinical-trial-of-treatment-for-blinding-disease/

What happens to an astronaut’s brain during a mission to Mars? Nothing good. It’s besieged by destructive particles that can forever impair cognition, according to a UC Irvine radiation oncol...

https://news.uci.edu/2015/05/01/long-term-galactic-cosmic-ray-exposure-leads-to-dementia-like-cognitive-impairments/