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Students learn best when they are comfortable in their environment. As an incoming accepted transfer student at the University of California, Irvine, students are invited to take part in Transfer Edge, an innovative opportunity that will provide them with a rich...

Student Support Services has recently been moved and expanded. OVPTL interviewed Kevin Huie, Director of Student Transition Services, to discuss the reason for the move and how it will benefit the mission of the unit. SSS has moved from 2100 to 2200 and 2300 in the...

Employers today are looking for a lot more than a degree. They want confident and experienced candidates who can thrive in a multicultural world. One way that UCI students can gain such experience and skills is by getting an internship while they study abroad!...

The Campuswide Honors Program (CHP) welcomed UCI alumna Jennifer Friend, CEO of Project Hope Alliance, to share her personal story and professional trajectory with honors students during last month’s Lunch with Leadership event.  The new quarterly series provides CHP...

No matter how big or small the idea may be, college is a great time to start a company. Whether your company is a success or failure, there is a lot of real world learning that happens. Oftentimes, students don’t know where to start once they have an idea -- but the...

For immediate release From The Office of the Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning The Association of American Universities (AAU) announced that UCI is one of the selected twelve AAU member campuses within the AAU STEM Education Network to receive mini-grants in the...

On numerous occasions UC Irvine and the Office of the Vice Provost in particular have expressed a growing concern with the future of institutional learning -- calling for continual adaptation in order to suit the changing needs of a diversified student population and...

UCI Media has a fully licensed and ‘pilot certified’ drone operator and is ready to ‘take to the skies’ to capture UCI from a bird's eye view. “With the rapid progression of technology, it’s important to stay ahead of the curve,” says Iain Grainger, Director for UCI...

In addition to the regular Fall Call for Proposals, the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) and other initiatives are collaborating for three special calls of proposals. UCI undergraduates from all disciplines who are conducting research projects or...

Ryan Foland, Senior Administrator of Social Media and Marketing for the Office of the Vice Provost for Teaching and learning was named as one of the top 11 marketers to follow this year. Read more here.

If you’ve ever doubted the power of one person to make a difference in the world, you need to meet Lydia Natoolo. She was a 33-year-old community college student, an immigrant from Uganda who struggled just to pay her bills, when she read an article about a hospital...

By Aftin Pomeroy The incoming students of the 2016 Transfer Edge Program have proven to be exceptionally motivated and full of curiosity, especially when it comes to research.  In response, Transfer Edge Mentors Aftin Pomeroy and Anthony Wovenu recently designed an...

The Division of Undergraduate Education would like to announce the new name for its Undecided/Undeclared advising program. Effective July 1, 2016, the name of the advising unit has changed to the UNDERGRADUATE/UNDECLARED ADVISING PROGRAM. The Undergraduate/Undeclared...

Leaving a legacy is something that individuals and corporations achieve by helping to support impactful change. Since the very start of UC Irvine’s history, donors have and continue to create legacies through their giving. Donors help to create exciting opportunities...

Calling all undergrad scientists! The Office of the Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning (OVPTL) is excited to share that the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has recently announced a new competition for science education grants to colleges and universities....

Last Tuesday, May 31, 2016, Mark Deppe was awarded the title of ANTrepreneur of the Year at UC Irvine Blackstone LaunchPad’s second annual awards ceremony. The celebration of work in the local entrepreneurial community, held at Applied Innovation’s The Cove, featured...

LARC and the Office of the Vice Provost of Teaching and Learning are pleased to share preliminary results of this year's Learning Assistant pilot program. What are LAs? Learning Assistants are undergraduate students who are trained to help transform undergraduate...

The Blum Center For Poverty Alleviation held the 2nd part of the two-part conference on Global Security at UC Irvine on May 5-6. Focusing on topics relating to food security, sustainability, and development, the conference featured speakers such as Janet Napolitano,...

The Blum Center for Poverty Alleviation co-sponsored the 2016 Business Plan Competition with UCI Applied Innovation and The Paul Merage School of Business on May 6. At the end of the competition, twelve student-led entrepreneur teams at University of California,...

This year, UCI garnered 5 recipients, 1 alternate, and 6 semi-finalists for the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. These twelve students represent a record-setting showing for Anteaters in the Fulbright competition. We also had our first Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship...

What if you were bitten by a radioactive spider? This is technically the safest way to become a superhero, according to Michael Dennin, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California, Irvine. In his classes, Dennin often uses superheroes to explain...

By Connor Harron, Samantha Gailey and Richard Matthew   Today nearly 50 million Americans lack access to enough safe and nutritious food to meet their daily dietary needs. They are part of the 1.6 billion people on the planet living in a condition of chronic food...

The University of California will deploy the collective power of its 10 campuses in a multidisciplinary effort to combat poverty in California and around the world, UC officials announced today (Feb. 8, 2016). The new Blum Federation, launched with $1.32 million in...

UCI is No. 1 in helping low-income, talented students! See more about the College Access Index and economic diversity in "California's Upward-Mobility Machine" via The New York Times The Upshot. Check out the full article here.

Professor Michael Dennin has been appointed as UC Irvine’s Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning, and Dean of Division of Undergraduate Education, effective May 1, 2015. Before his appointment as interim dean of the Division of Undergraduate Education in October...

Dear Member of the UCI Faculty: We are pleased to announce the Fifteenth Annual Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) Call for Proposals. SURP provides funding for UCI undergraduates from all disciplines who are conducting summer research projects or creative...