Archive for November 20th, 2012
Let Your Zots Ring Out
There is a culture amongst students that suggests UC Irvine is a “second choice” university. It is no secret that UC Berkeley and UCLA, both older universities with popular football teams, seem to cast a shadow over UCI. Some will tell you it’s because we are a young university, only founded in 1965, and we [...]
The Column of Babel: Alireza from Iran
Unlike many of the other international students on campus, Alireza Farahmand immigrated to the US from Iran with his family before beginning his studies at UCI. Farahmand is 25 years old and is a Ph.D candidate in civil engineering. He has been studying in the United States for two years and plans to continue for [...]
Gaining Perspective at TEDxUCIrvine
We’ve all traveled somewhere at some point in our lives. For some, that might mean a flight to Paris or a weekend in the Caribbean. For others, it could be as simple as a car ride downtown or a drive to the beach. But as we are getting our tan on, or buying our souvenirs, [...]
“Gangnam Style”: Not the Only One
Yellow caution tape covered the entrance to BCD Tofu House on a Friday evening, while a wall of people surrounded the area as bystanders stuck their cellphones out ready to take a snapshot. It was no ordinary hustle and bustle of the weekend for the culinary hotspot. The tofu house attracted a different type of [...]
Tuning in to College Radio
Paul McEldowney casually settles into his chair and turns to his laptop. He opens up his music files and selects a few songs, adding them to his playlist. He then turns to the soundboard and adjusts a few settings. A song can be heard playing in the background. Once the sound of the song fades, [...]
Winkler Breaks Big West Record
On Saturday night during UC Irvine’s match versus cross-town rival Long Beach State, senior Kristin Winkler became the Big West’s all-time leader in career digs. Beginning the match just nine shy of the previous record of 2,194 set by Cal State Fullerton’s libero Cami Croteau between 2007-2010, Winkler picked up the record-breaking dig early in [...]
Q&A With Professor Famiglietti
As the head of the Hydrology and Climate Research Group at UC Irvine, James Famiglietti is an expert in the global water cycle change and freshwater availability according to measurements of groundwater depletion. He is the director of the UC Center for Hydrologic Modeling at UC Irvine and the former director of the UC Irvine [...]
Professor Receives Biophotonics Grant
Three million dollars to go toward development of doctoral program aimed at unifying the different STEM disciplines at UC Irvine. In an effort to promote interdisciplinary graduate education, the National Science Foundation (NSF) recently granted $3 million to UC Irvine biomedical engineering professor, Vasan Venugopalan, to develop a doctoral program that brings together four different [...]
UCI Symphony Orchestra at the Barclay Theater
What appears to be an underappreciated art form at UC Irvine received proper attention last Saturday night when the UCI Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Dr. Stephen Tucker, gave its first concert of the academic year — a concert for which it has been rehearsing since the beginning of the quarter. The orchestra’s colorful sounds filled [...]
LGBT History in the OC
New exhibit archives the struggles and successes of the OC LGBT community. The UC Irvine Libraries hosted a special reception and viewing of their new “Documenting LGBT History in Orange County” exhibit on Thursday, Nov. 15 in the Caroline A. Laudati Conference Room of Langson Library. The event was a way for the libraries to [...]
