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02/15/2012 Brent Bushnell of Extreme Makeover Fame Talks at UCI Today About Immersive GamingThe 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 television and using casual games to reduce memory loss. He's Brent Bushnell, the engineer and entrepreneur who founded mobile platform Dopplegames, game maker Anti-Aging Games and content creator Syyn Labs, and also appeared on camera as the inventor on the online add-on "Home Edition" of ABC's Extreme Makeover. More... |
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02/15/2012 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 go through. Your skin is burning. More... |
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02/08/2012 Valerie Plame Comes Out of the Cold to UCI LawValerie 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. More... |
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02/01/2012 Anteaters' Tillie honoredUC Irvine outside hitter named national player of the week after being a force in two wins last week. More... |
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01/29/2012 UC Irvine homecoming in picturesUC Irvine homecoming in pictures More... |
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01/12/2012 Fall 2012 applications to UCI hit record highNumbers 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 the fall 2012 quarter, a record number that reflects the campus’s success at maintaining academic quality in the face of plummeting state support. More... |
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01/11/2012 New Miss California USA plans to attend medical schoolThe 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. More... |
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01/11/2012 New itemUC Irvine School of Law Receives $1.5 Million for Raymond Pryke Chair in First Amendment Law | BusinThe 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 with the Apple Valley Observer, which he launched as a vehicle to promote sales for his real estate business. Today, Valleywide Newspapers publishes many newspapers serving Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties, including the Hesperia Resorter, Apple Valley News, County Legal Reporter, Adelanto Bulletin, the Antelope Valley Journal and the Victorville Post Express. More... |
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01/04/2012 Playing the pain away: Alum helps hospitalized kids cope via video gamesRyan 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 for much of that time, his entertainment options were limited to soap operas or game shows. But everything changed when he was 6: Two arcade machines - Zaxxon and Donkey Kong Jr. - were installed in the facility's break room. More... |
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01/04/2012 Prestigious construction industry award goes to UCI’s Engineering HallProject 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 design excellence in educational facilities, which honors projects in which all services are provided under one contract with a single point of responsibility. More... |
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12/13/2011 VIDEO: UCI Mind TeaserTrailer video for the full version of a documentary that looks at what UCI is doing to fight Alzheimer's Disease. More... |
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12/08/2011 Community Raises $80,000 for Armenian History Courses at UCI | Asbarez Armenian NewsThe 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 wallets to support UC Irvine’s continued course offerings in Armenian history. This marks the fourth year the Tertzakians have hosted fellow Armenians from the Orange County community, with this year’s event raising close to $80,000, more than the past three years combined. Sylvie, a former adjunct professor at Chapman University; and Garo, a renowned specialist in urology, are committed to seeing quarterly courses offerings in Armenian history grow into a bona fide Program in Armenian Studies with an endowed chair in Armenian history. More... |
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12/06/2011 The University of California Irvine Awarded 2011 Open Educational Quality Initiative Award for InstiThe 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, given to UC Irvine in Berlin on Dec. 2, recognize innovation in improving the quality of open education resources. The Open Educational Quality Initiative (OPAL), with the support of the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE), European Foundation for Quality E Learning (EFQUEL) and several European universities, is a consortium which works to promote the production, use and reuse of open educational resources (OER) in higher and adult education. More... |
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12/01/2011 UCI honored for MS researchThe 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 program director and professor of neurology, received a plaque for his staff's achievements in multiple sclerosis research. More... |
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12/01/2011 Testimonial: Leeza Gibbons – TV & radio personality, Alzheimer's patient advocateYou 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: More... |
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Inspiring Stories about UC Irvine's Donors
- Sue and Bill Gross
- Michael Mussallem
- Lori and Robert Warmington
- Law Firms pledge 1.1 million
- Joan Irvine Smith
- Sheila and Jim Peterson
- Dana and John Agamalian
- Ninetta and Gavin Herbert
- Queen of Hearts
- Jenny Doh, '91
- Dr. Rosalyn Laudati
- Rajiv Ramdeo & Aswathi Sreedharan
- Allergan, Inc.
- Pat Beckman
- Zofia Kirshbaum
- M.A. Douglas
