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Women's History Month collage featuring: (top left to right: Katrine Whiteson, Sunny Jiang, Joleah Lamb; (bottom left to right) Karen Lincoln, Aomawa Shields, Luiza Osorio Silva and Roxane Cohen Silver.

Profiles of excellence

For Women’s History Month, UC Irvine salutes its influential researchers

Diego Pizzagalli, head of UC Irvine’s Noel Drury, M.D. Institute for Translational Depression Discoveries.

Demystifying depression

Founding director of collaborative research institute is eager to make a difference

UC Irvine students’ winter-quarter 2024 rocket blasts off from the Mojave Desert testing site.

The sky’s the limit

Members of the UC Irvine Rocket Project each year produce new entries for international competition

Third-year microbiology and immunology student Ritwik Kumar researches bacteriophages—viruses that infect bacteria, not human cells.

An antibiotic alternative

In first at UC Irvine, undergrad will use bacteriophages to treat patients with resistant infections

UCIPD Chief Liz Griffin presents the Lifesaving Award to Public Safety Responder Jose Gallardo.

UCIPD honors its own

Police officers, public safety responders and professional staff are among those receiving biennial awards

Grad student Dada Wang was a curator for the Langson IMCA’s new exhibit.

‘Common Ground’

Curated by students, new exhibition of early 20th century paintings explores mutuality among 3 SoCal artist colonies

UCI Health’s Dr. Maheswari Senthil (left) and Dr. Farshid Dayyani

Answers for cancers

Annual campus fundraiser supports promising studies, including Stopgap trial

UC Irvine and UCLA members of Engineers Without Borders construct a house in Tijuana, Mexico.

Building better futures

Student volunteers with Engineers Without Borders aim to improve quality of life in underserved communities worldwide

Yessica Ornelas

Defying expectations

With scholarship help, first-gen college student prepares for role as change-maker

Students show their Anteater spirit during fall 2024’s Welcome Week.

Understanding a culture of inclusion

U.C.I. Experience initiative seeks to optimize inclusive excellence