University of California, Irvine

By By CLAUDIA KOERNER As University of California regents approved a 32 percent fee increase today, UC Irvine students began to describe the impact the fee will have on their education. "It means I need to take out a lot more loans,” said Sonia Mehta, a junior from San...

By Gary Robbins, science writer-editor More than 60 percent of the public thinks that California’s public colleges and universities are doing well at educating students, but they’re worried about the affordability of higher education and the effect of recent budget cuts, says a new survey by the Public Policy Institute of C...

By Gary Robbins, science writer-editor UC Irvine students say they’ll stage a rally on campus on Nov. 17th to protest the proposed 32 percent  fee hike that the University of California Board of Regents is expected to approve next week when it meets at UCLA. The proposal would increase fees paid by undergraduate residents by at le...

By Gary Robbins, science writer-editor InstitutionTotal compensationUniversity of the Pacific$1,350,743Univ. of Southern California$1,023,198Caltech$803,296Stanford University$731,614Pepperdine University$526,926UC Berkeley$467,556Chapman University$467,516Pomona College$453,000UCLA$445,716C...

By Gary Robbins, science writer-editor The University of California says it doesn’t endorse the qualitative rankings that are issued by various magazines and institutions. So what does the UC do? It issues  a news release summarizing how well many of its campuses have finished in the same rankings. The new list includes an asse...

By Gary Robbins, science writer-editor “We have been enrolling about 300 or so new transfers in previous Winter Quarters, so this Fall’s increase is essentially the 100 students called for in the new (University of California Office of the President) enrollment plan plus 300 students who would ordinarily have enrolled in Wi...

By Gary Robbins, science writer-editor Times Higher Education in London annually produces a list of what it regards as the world's top 200 colleges and universities. “These universities have also stressed the importance of their professors publishing in international journals, which has no doubt increased the visibility...

By Gary Robbins, science writer-editor At UC Irvine, David Lumb, an editor at the New University, participated in a  UC student media interview with Mark Yudof, president of the UC. The reporters raised the question of whether Yudof supported keeping all 10 campuses open. Yudof said, “I envision keeping all the campuses. I thoug...

By Gary Robbins, science writer-editor Arden Glende of Sacramento, an international studies student, said the increases will mean more financial aid for her. Students, teachers and University of California workers, protest over furloughs imposed throughout the system to save money and help the state balance its budget. Mi...

By Gary Robbins, science writer-editor UCI grad John Fincher. Image courtesy of CBS. Updated: 8:52 p.m. The latest season of CBS’s venerable show Survivor is underway on Samoa, and this year’s cast features John Fincher, who earned his degree in engineering at UC Irvine in 2006.  (So far, it hasn’t helped him, so far as we can see.)

By Gary Robbins, science writer-editor A 30-percent fee hike now appears inevitable for students at UC Irvine and the UC’s nine other campuses. UC President Mark Yudof The separate California State University system — which includes Cal State Fullerton — has already raised fees 30 percent this year.

By Ben Young Landis Western State University is located next to Cal State Fullerton. (Image courtesy of Western State University) The Whittier Law School and the Chapman University School of Law are the only other ABA-accredited law schools in Orange County.

By Ben Young Landis This is one of those “only in California” stories … Chapman University will auction off permits to a premium parking lot to students and faculty who are too lazy to walk 5 minutes from a nearby lot on the small Orange campus. The new “cash for convenience” plan was the idea of Chapman Presiden...

By Gary Robbins, science writer-editor The system also says that, “All 108,900 recipients of the CSU State University Grant will receive dollar-for-dollar fee offsets for 2009-10. Federal Pell Grant recipients will receive an increase of $619, and federal higher education tax credits will continue to help families cover e...

By Ben Young Landis In a separate announcement yesterday, the 16,000-member California State University Employees Union also approved a furlough contract. The one-year agreement calls for up to 24 furlough days for full-time, 12-month employees between August 1, 2009 and June 30, 2010.

By Ben Young Landis University of California President Mark G. Yudof outlined the details of his budget proposal and future collaboration plans at a press conference this morning, ahead of next week’s UC  Regents meeting. The UC Regents also announced this morning the creation of a UC “Commission on the Fut...

 CA While she chose Princeton to pursue a PhD in the university's astrophysical sciences department, Kulier was also accepted to doctoral programs at Harvard, UC Irvine, UC Berkley, Cal Tech and the University of Chicago. "There seems like a lot of great ...

By Gary Robbins, science writer-editor UC Irvine isn’t the only local campus expected to suffer a big hit in helping the state balance its budget. Cal State Fullerton will have to cut $29 million — we think. The campus didn’t respond to a written request for an estimate on how much it will have to trim. So we put the same question to an of...

I had some serious soul searching to do at Anteater Ballpark. My two favorite college teams battle for my heart. Who wins? by Andrew Melkonian There is nothing on this earth that can keep me at UC Irvine after I am done with classes on a Friday. ... • UCI has comfort of home Daily Pilot

By Gary Robbins, science writer-editor UCI Chancellor Michael Drake (right) poses with Larry J. Shapiro, dean of the Washington University School of Medicine, on May 15. Image courtesy of Robert Boston. Drake chose instead to travel to St. Louis earlier this month to give a commencement talk at the Washington University School o...

By Gary Robbins, science writer-editor Former UCI Chancellor Laurel Wilkening. Image courtesy of UCI. UC Irvine Further, Wilkening was at UCI when Frederick Reines and F. Sherwood Rowland won separate Nobel Prizes in 1995. But she played no role in the seminal work that earned them the highest prize in science.

By Gary Robbins, science writer-editor UC Irvine had 4,489 students majoring in the biological sciences in the fall of 2008, the second highest number of any UC or Cal State University campus, according to figures compiled by the California Postsecondary Education Commission. Irvine was second only to UC San Diego, with 5,25...

 CA UC Irvine is located almost in the middle of Orange County. But a review of data by the California Postsecondary Education Commission reveals that two high schools from outside the county provided the most freshman to UCI from 1994-2008, ...

 CA - Louise Lao, Louise Lao by Emmercelle Deleon My friends over at UC Irvine Campus Representatives constantly find ways to surprise me about the going-ons of UCI, and if you've taken one of their tours, they have probably surprised you, too. by Melanie Glass Close your eyes. ...

by Umar Hussain We fly high, UCI, you know it! Now that I have the cheese out of the way, let me get even straighter to the point. UC Irvine sports have never been better. I repeat, never been better! by Mark Ratto What do tight short-shorts, ...  - New University Online

caption id="attachment_14993" align="alignright" width="406" caption="Sketch of new UCI dorms"] [1][/caption] Not everyone in real estate is suffering. American Campus Communities from Texas -- a major player in campus housing around UC Irvine and the nation -- reports that its 2...

By Marla Jo Fisher, Staff Writer UCI Chancellor Michael Drake UCI’s plan for future campus development got a thumbs-up from University of California regents Wednesday morning, after UCI Chancellor Michael Drake spent an hour describing how campus officials intend to move the campus forward in the coming years.

Lennar Corp. Chief Investment Officer Emile Haddad said today at an Irvine business breakfast that its homebuilding projects at the Great Park Neighborhoods, Central Park West and the Platinum Triangle [1] will continue to be on hold to keep new-home inventories low. With sales of new ho...

By Dan Slater Today, in the LA Times, he turns to Blago and Burris. Dean Chemerinsky begins: “Like it or not, Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich has the legal authority to appoint Roland Burris to the U.S. Senate, and Burris, the state’s former attorney general, should be allowed to take the seat vacated by Pre...

AAUW Dialog, December 1, 2008 Case Western Reserve University associate professor of history Rhonda Williams is profiled in the American Association of University Women's blog, AAUW Dialog. Between the Lines: University Circle projects on track despite credit crunch

By Jeff Fecke Four years ago, the governor signed Assembly Bill 1825 into law, requiring all California employers with more than 50 people to provide sexual harassment training for each of their employees. The University of California raised no objection and submitted to its authority.

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By Anjali Taneja JL and SR: The evening was it was all a lot fun. We had over a 100 people there. Exchange Rate 2008 is an international performance art event curated by Elana Mann that has been happening at different spaces throughout the country. All of the performances are a response to this the U.S. election, b...

Faculty representatives Mary Croughan, chair of the universitywide Academic Senate and UC San Francisco professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences; Robert Powell, chair of the UC Davis Academic Senate, and chair and professor of chemical engineering and mater...

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Subsequently, scholars at UC Irvine and from around the country blasted Drake’s actions as an insult and threat to academic freedom. Shortly after facing this new firestorm, Drake decided to reverse course again and reinstate his offer to Chemerinsky to be the inaugural Dean of UC Irvin...

By Mike Millikin Toyota Motor Sales, USA will provide Toyota plug-in (PHEV) hybrid prototypes (earlier post) to the Advanced Power and Energy Program at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB), as part of...

By Sam Abuelsamid During the concept car ride that Ford held at their Dearborn proving ground this week, some of Ford's top designers including Peter Horbury and Freeman Thomas were on hand to answer questions from the gathered journalists. Thomas currently leads Ford's Advanced Design Studio in Irvine...

Bryan Petersen ended the longest game in College World Series history with a runscoring single in the bottom of the 13th inning, giving UC Irvine a 54 victory over Cal State Fullerton in an elimination game Monday.

Last week, while preparing to meet with the United States, Iran launched a crackdown on Iranian-American activists, rounding up and jailing the most vocal: Iran Takes Prisoners. Notice the connection to George Soros and the University of California Irvine.

By Mike Millikin Category C: Hybrid electric vehicle demonstration projects ($5 million). Seven projects will received funding. Within this category, $1.1 million goes to the California Clean Mobility Partnership at the University of California, Berkeley and Irvine to provide a technical assessmen...

The FBI’s response comes after a Muslim student said an agent bumped him with his car near the site of an anti-Israel protest on May 14. Yasser Ahmed, 21, said he noticed he was being followed by a car with blackened windows as he drove a 24-foot moving van on campus to pick up an exhibit, sponso...

An unbelievable story from the University of California Irvine, where the Muslim Students Union is holding a virulently anti-Israel hate week, and at the same time trying to claim victimhood: FBI actions at UCI questioned. The Council on American Islamic Relations is seething.

The California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) was already using loans to fund researchers. But the court ruling allows the agency to massively expand its funding of institutions like UC Irvine, which is becoming a Mecca for stem cell research. UCI has obtained $13.5 million in...

Another speaker—Amir Abdul Malik Ali—is slated to give another talk on May 17 called, “The UC Intifada: How You Can Help Palestine.” Does the University of California really condone an effort to link its name with unrepentant violence?

UC Irvines Anteaters blended their power game with great defense to beat Indiana PurdueFort Wayne 31 Saturday and win their first volleyball national championship.

THE DARK SIDE UC Irvine neurobiologist Jim Fallon and physicist Michael Dennin will appear on the History Channel at 8 p.m. tonight to discuss the science of Spider-Man, a show that comes on the eve of the nationwide release of Spider-Man 3, which cost at least $270 million to make.

The National Academy of Sciences will cover a lot of hot topics during its spring lecture series at Beckman Center in Irvine, as intern Cathy Tran tells us here. We've included the full lineup of speakers below. Make plans now; the lectures are free. But reservations go fast. The series runs fr...

By coinop Education: MFA, Arts Computation Engineering - University of California Irvine, Critical Theory Emphasis - University of California Irvine, In progress: PhD, Visual Studies (Media Theory / History) - University of California Irvine.

Is the first video iPod any good? A big mistake? iLounge editors Jeremy Horwitz (in Irvine, California) and Bob Levens (in Cambridge, U.K.) started out with markedly different opinions on iPod video features before Apple Computer's announcement of the fifth-generation iPod yesterday...