Author Archive for Lauren Shepherd
Kelsey Klatt: Sister of the Coach
The UC Irvine women’s water polo team owes its bonded relationship to the year’s top player, UCI senior Kelsey Klatt, and she owes her skills in the water and values in life to her dedicated coaches. Klatt’s father, Rick, coached her Fresno Dolphins club team in high school. “My dad is a born leader [...]
Arriving at Justice
Professor and Director of the Literary Journalism Department, Barry Siegel, spoke to colleagues and students about his newest book. Pulitzer Prize-winning author and UC Irvine’s Literary Journalism Department Director Barry Siegel was the featured guest during last week’s Humanities Author Series, where he spoke about his new narrative non-fiction book “Manifest Injustice — The True [...]
The Veils Perform at The Echo
The club’s disco-ball-lit center buzzed with a small hub of fans of The Veils, inching up to the stage when the first opening band, Pop Noir, played in their Brit-pop style. In between sets, ’80s British tunes bounced off the mirrored walls lined with pillowed bench seating. The night mellowed as Los Angeles youths came [...]
Parker the Photographer
After wearing out many years of running soles, Ian Parker, UC Irvine professor of neurobiology and behavior and physiology and biophysics, can be seen snapping photos of the birds at the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve. “I’ve always had an inbuilt drive to get out into the wild since I was young,” Parker said. What his [...]
Law School Dean Becomes Chair of New Program
Dean Chermerinsky will continue teaching his regular courses as he assumes his new position. Founding Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law, Erwin Chemerinsky, is now the Chair of the new First Amendment Law program at the UC Irvine School of Law. Raymond Pryke, owner and publisher of Valleywide Newspapers based in San Bernardino, donated $1.5 million [...]
Workshopping at the Career Center
When most students think of the Career Center at UC Irvine, they are looking to develop or improve their resumes and run in for a quick “Take Ten” appointment with student staff. “For most upper division students, which is the bulk of who we see every year, they are looking for internships or part-time employment, [...]
Fuel from the Ocean Floor
UCI researchers will begin investigating how to recreate methyl clathrates, a trapped source of fuel found frozen on the ocean floor. Collaborating on combustion energy projects for 20 years, two UC Irvine chairs of science have proven that it is best to look at unintuitive issues of alternative energy sources from more than one perspective. [...]
Getting Scientifit
When you find yourself doing the impossible, just look up past your yoga mat and you will find Mitra Hooshmand, motivating you to the next step. Mitra Hooshmand, neuroscientist, and creator and Editor in Chief of ScientiFIT teaches UCI students that science is the answer to improving their health. Creator of CardiYOGA—which will soon [...]
The Year Of The Rabbit
The passionate fourth-year president of a poetry club, Nghiem Le, invites the other club members to bring their hands to the center and they shuffle closer and closer into one mass. “We are going to take in this positivity, throw it into the circle and bring it out into the world. One … two … [...]
Profiling The Hottest Research Duo in the OC
UCI researchers explain their history from learning about stem cells to utilizing them to treat patients. Husband and wife, Dr. Brian Cummings and Dr. Aileen Anderson of UC Irvine’s Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center, put their brains together to research spinal cord regeneration through neural stem cell transplantation. Their research and clinical [...]
