As the Associate Dean of the Division of Undergraduate Education and a well-respected professor within the Samueli School of Engineering, Doctor Donald Dabdub is used to receiving recognition for his work as a professor. However, there are certain accolades that hold...
FINANCING The ANTrepreneur Center at the University of California-Irvine has received $550,000 from the Blackstone Charitable Foundation. The funds will be used to add new technology to the facility, host special events and provide travel opportunities for...
Being truly caring is what defines a good person and a great mentor. And when Dr. Donald Dabdub, the recipient of the 2018 Tom Angell Faculty Mentoring Award, pulled out his phone to read his personal motto, he refocused the conversation onto the first and most...
Irvine, Calif., May 22, 2017 — The U.S. Department of Education has named the University of California, Irvine a Hispanic-serving institution for 2017-18, meaning that fully one-quarter of undergraduates identify as Latino and that half of all students receive...
IRVINE — Chad Trainer’s business idea was born out of his own struggle to find a job. Trainer, who had a desire to help others, graduated in 2008 from the University of Virginia law school, one of the best in the country. He hoped to land a job in public interest law,...
The Center for Excellence in Writing and Communication (Writing Center) hosted “Reporting Fairly in an Era of Fake News”, a Master Class with NPR Media Correspondent David Folkenflik, in conjunction with The Literary Journalism Program and the Forum for the Academy...
On May 20th, the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) held its 23rd Annual Symposium. The daylong event featured over 700 projects completed collaboratively or individually by over 1000 individual students across all disciplines represented at UCI. The...
As part of a class project, 45 students from Entrepreneur Marketing (Social Science 189) likely shattered a UCI record when they were challenged to encourage donors to bring canned foods to the Blackstone LaunchPad on campus during a one week period in May. The...
UCI physics professor compares St. Nick’s powers to those of traditional caped crusaders. Michael Dennin believes Santa Claus qualifies as a bona fide superhero. “His only weakness is cookies and milk, but it doesn’t debilitate him like kryptonite,” he notes. “It’s...
