All Entries in the "Features" Category
The Hunt for Halloween
It’s the most wonderful time of the year again as the leaves begin to turn, pumpkins start to make faces at us from doorsteps and accepting candy from strangers is suddenly OK. And best of all, finding ways to scare the living hell out of yourself along with your friends becomes a must do on [...]
How To Study
The waning weeks of October grace UC Irvine’s campus with all things autumn and lovely: the emergence of cozy sweaters, the glorious return of boots, pumpkin spice lattes, excited exchanges of Halloween plans, glimmers of the approaching cold weather and even the occasional crisp autumn leaf; but there is a dark side to this time [...]
Rohrabacher Speaks at UCI
Congressman Rohrabacher visited the campus last Wednesday to talk to the College Republicans at UCI. The Congressman is the current U.S. Representative for California’s 46th congressional district, an area surrounding Irvine (Huntington Beach, Costa Mesa, Fountain Valley, Seal Beach, Avalon, Rancho Palos Verdes Estates, Rolling Hills, Palos Verdes Estates, and Rolling Hills Estates, portions of [...]
Column of Babel: Marco From Italy
When studying abroad, students often experience homesickness, but for Marco Maggia, Irvine has become more of his home than Padova, Italy. Maggia has been working toward his PhD in aerospace engineering at UCI for the last three years and although he misses his family and friends, he cannot imagine living anywhere else. Maggia did not [...]
Tender Loving CARE in October
Aside from the Halloween season, October is Domestic Violence Awareness month. One of the places on campus that can be seen observing this important month is the UCI Campus Assault Resources and Education (CARE) office, a service that educates students on topics of sexual abuse, maintaining healthy relationships and individual safety. The CARE office aims [...]
Q & A With Jami Bartlett
Last Wednesday I was able to sit down with Jami Bartlett, one of our English professors here at UC Irvine and recipient of the 2011 Humanities Teaching Award. I was to conduct a fun 15-minute interview. While our conversation was enjoyable, I have found it also a great learning experience. Our talk lasted 50 minutes, [...]
The Dish List: Harry’s Deli
For over the past 10 months, hearts and stomachs were fragile for the Harry’s Deli faithful. The eatery, which stood as the #1 restaurant in Irvine on Yelp at the end of last year, closed in January, as owner Harrison “Harry” Kho decided that the time had come to turn his long-lived desire to revamp [...]
To Market, To Market: A Guide to the Farmers Market
Did you know that the campus we walk on every day used to be farmland? That’s one of the reasons why we live in a county dubbed Orange – it’s for the orange tree groves that used to cover the land here in sunny Southern California. Although the farmland has mostly disappeared and been taken [...]
The Undercover Profiler: DIY Club
Here’s the rub. When I walked into the DIY Craft and Art Club workshop last Monday, I was a bit disconcerted for two reasons: I was one of two guys among a sea of girls, and there were generous amounts of the New U’s latest issue strewn across the floor, ready to catch any excess [...]
Deva Ramanan is “Brilliant”
Deva Ramanan, an associate professor here at UC Irvine, was recently honored in Popular Science magazine as one of their “Brilliant 10” young scientists of the year. The honor was bestowed upon Dr. Ramanan as he became one of the leading pioneers in Computer Vision, a new field of study that focuses on getting computers [...]
