In this episode of Ask the Vice Provost, Dean of Undergraduate Education and Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning, Michael Dennin is joined by UCI undergraduate students Mina Nada (ESS, Class of 2018) and Petrina Suggs (English, Class of 2019) in discussing how teaching and education will shape moral and ethical boundaries in science as well as the difficulties of writing and publishing a novel. Watch here.
From Blank Résumé to the Global Stage: Jira Trinetkamol Shares How He Found Purpose and Became UC Irvine’s First Schwarzman Scholar
On January 15, 2026, Jira Trinetkamol became the first Schwarzman Scholar in UC Irvine’s history and the first from Thailand in over a decade. Schwarzman Scholars live in Beijing for a year of study and cultural immersion, pursuing a fully funded Master’s in Global...



