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Wen Family Donates $20 Million to Support New UCI Health Center

Monday, June 27, 2022

Supported by a $20 million gift from Joe C. Wen and his family, the UCI Health outpatient clinical facility at the new UCI Health–Irvine complex will bring to the University of California, Irvine campus specialty clinical expertise to coastal and south Orange County residents. “The Joe C. Wen & Family Center for Advanced Care at UCI Health–Irvine will play a special role in the life of south Orange County because of our unique ability to marshal all the resources of a comprehensive research university in support of delivering the best and most up-to-date care,” said UCI Chancellor Howard Gillman. “We are very grateful fo...

UCI Paul Merage School of Business and Irvine Valley College Partner on New Master of Professional Accountancy Program

Wednesday, June 22, 2022

The University of California, Irvine Paul Merage School of Business Master of Professional Accountancy Program (UCI MPAc) and Irvine Valley College (IVC) have entered a student referral agreement whereby IVC students can use selected IVC accounting courses to meet accounting course prerequisites for the UCI MPAc and to raise awareness of graduate program options at the community college level. “We are very excited to be offering this program to IVC students,” said Burt Slusher, director, Recruitment and Admissions at UCI MPAc. “For the past several years, IVC has been the number one transfer school to UCI for undergraduate studies. This program will further rais...

Individuals, Organizations Receive Greater Irvine Chamber’s 2022 Celebrate Irvine Business Awards

Wednesday, June 15, 2022

The Greater Irvine Chamber presented its 2022 business awards during the Celebrate Irvine event on June 16 at the Irvine Marriott. Meet the award recipients: Business of the Year - Tax Relief Advocates The experts at TRA are committed to making a fundamental difference in the lives of its clients through knowledge and support to taxpayers to help them save money. TRA is is focused on its mission to advocate on behalf of its clients. The TRA team develops strategies personalized for each client to resolve outstanding tax balances and prevent future problems. Entrepreneur of the Year - Ramin Mousavi, President & CEO...

Philanthropist Stacey Nicholas pledges $3 million to School of Education

Tuesday, June 14, 2022

A $3 million gift from longtime University of California, Irvine supporter Stacey Nicholas will advance the School of Education’s ambitious projects for improving environmental and climate change literacy in California’s classrooms. The funding will create a new $2 million endowment fund for the Stacey Nicholas Endowed Chair in Environmental Education to support the teaching, research and service activities of the chair holder. (A recruitment is planned.) The other $1 million from the gift will provide startup funding and operations support to establish a bipartisan advisory board and organize an annual summit on environmental education. “We are grateful for the generous gift fro...

UCI Receives Excellence in Action Award for Water Conservation

Thursday, June 09, 2022

The University of California, Irvine (UCI) and the Irvine Ranch Water District (IRWD) were honored with the 2022 Award of Excellence from the WateReuse Association. The national award recognizes UCI’s long-standing partnership with the IRWD as one of its earliest partners in the Water Star business program using IRWD recycled water on campus for more than five decades. The award notes: “Irvine Ranch Water District and the University of California, Irvine are celebrating more than 50 years of recycled water partnership with the completion of the university’s Central Plant Recycled Water Conversion. The project uses cooling towers to chill air-conditioning wate...

UCI Study Finds Affordable Housing Increases Property Values, Lowers Crime

Monday, June 06, 2022

(ABC 7 Eyewitness News) The need for affordable housing in Orange County is evident as the price to buy a home reaches record highs. George Tita, University of California, Irvine professor of criminology, law and society, directs UCI Livable Cities Lab. The lab conducted a study, which looked at the impact affordable housing has on communities in the O.C. "There is a shortage of 65,000 housing units in Orange County right at this moment," Tita said. He said the study looked at data three years before, and three years after affordable developments moved into neighborhoods. He said the findings of the study debunk the myth tha...

Kristine Collins Named Dean of UCI Division of Continuing Education

Wednesday, June 01, 2022

University of California, Irvine has appointed Kristine Collins to be its dean of the Division of Continuing Education, following a North American-wide search. She will assume the post on Aug. 22. The UCI Division of Continuing Education serves the lifelong learning and career development needs of individuals, organizations and the community on a local, regional and global scale. Through a wide range of educational opportunities, including certificate and specialized studies programs, short courses and strategic partnerships, the DCE provides learning pathways for those seeking career advancement or personal enrichment. DCE offers 2,500 classes per year, with nearly 23,000 enrollments. Additionally, throug...

UCI Ranked 9th University in Money Magazine’s Best Colleges 2022

Friday, May 20, 2022

Money magazine has ranked University of California, Irvine ninth in its 2022 list of the U.S.’s “Best Colleges” – making it the highest-rated California university. The annual ranking, released May 16, acknowledges UCI’s continued growth in providing accessible, high-quality education and fostering alumni success. “We are delighted that UCI has once again been recognized as one of the premier universities in the nation,” said Chancellor Howard Gillman. “This ranking reflects our deep commitment to providing student opportunity and validates our intentional agenda to promote the American dream by being an engine of upward mobility through higher education.” According to Money, UCI score...

UCI Names Mary Lou Ortiz CFO

Friday, May 13, 2022

Mary Lou Ortiz has been named chief financial officer and vice chancellor for the Division of Finance and Administration at the University of California, Irvine, following a nationwide search. She will assume the post on July 18. Ortiz comes to UCI from The Pennsylvania State University, where she serves as associate vice president for budget as well as university budget officer. “Mary Lou Ortiz brings to UCI close to 30 years of outstanding experience in promoting financial stewardship, advancing the efficient use of resources, and collaborating with a wide range of stakeholders,” said Chancellor Howard Gillman. “We all look forward t...

UCI Sets Location for its California Art Museum

Thursday, April 07, 2022

(Orange County Register) UC Irvine’s growing north campus has been chosen as the future home of the Jack and Shanaz Langson Institute and Museum of California Art. Museum and university officials chose the location for the Langson IMCA, as it is being called, intentionally, said Museum Director Kim Kanatani, because of its proximity to the San Joaquin Marsh Reserve, as well as the planned healing gardens at UCI’s expanding health campus still under development. “Its adjacency to nature is very critical for the museum,” Kanatani said. “It really resonates with our collections.” More than 3,000 works of modern art in a variety of mediums collected b...

UC Irvine Ranks Among U.S. News' Best Graduate Schools

Tuesday, March 29, 2022

The University of California, Irvine’s graduate programs in education and chemistry place in the nation’s top 10 among public universities in U.S. News & World Report’s annual graduate school rankings. Nine other fields of advanced study are in the top 20 among public universities, marking UCI as one of the leading locations in the country for students to pursue graduate degrees. “UCI has established itself as a world-class public research university in a wide range of graduate disciplines,” said Gillian Hayes, vice provost for graduate education and dean of the Graduate Division. “These rankings confirm that our campus offers challenging an...

UCI’s North Campus Site Provides Outdoor Vistas to Complement Indoor Masterpieces

Monday, March 28, 2022

Spellbinding views – both indoors and out – will grace the future home of the Jack and Shanaz Langson Institute and Museum of California Art at the University of California, Irvine when it opens along Campus Drive near Jamboree Road – a location UCI officials announced today. The North Campus site – which is near where the UCI Medical Center–Irvine complex is also being constructed – will offer visitors “sweeping views of the San Joaquin Marsh Reserve to complement Langson IMCA’s remarkable collection of California impressionist and contemporary art and serve as a vibrant hub for discovery, exchange and engagement,” said museu...

UCI Celebrates 20 Years of Octane OC Building Entrepreneurial Innovation Ecosystem

Wednesday, March 02, 2022

Genuine collaboration and building a community that hasn’t formerly existed doesn’t happen overnight. In fact, it may take decades and, much like any startup, it experiences ups and downs. This year, Octane a non-profit organization that drives technology and growth by connecting ideas and people with resources and capital is celebrating two decades of building the now budding innovative and entrepreneurial ecosystem that sprawls across Southern California. The UC Irvine ecosystem partner’s very seed was planted in Irvine with roots dating back to UCI’s Division of Continuing Education. That seed has grown over 20 years and continues to cultivate entrepreneurial, investment, and workforc...

UC Irvine Launches AI-Powered Institute for Precision Health

Friday, February 25, 2022

The University of California, Irvine today announced the launch of the Institute for Precision Health (IPH), an endeavor that marries UCI’s powerhouse health sciences, engineering, machine learning, artificial intelligence, clinical genomics and data science capabilities to deliver the most effective health and wellness strategy for each individual person and, in doing so, confronts the linked challenges of health equity and the high cost of care. The institute will bring a multifaceted, integrated approach to what many call the next great advancement in healthcare. Precision medicine collects patient data – history, exams, demographics, molecular and diagnostic tests – and uses the powe...

$57M Gift to UC Irvine Will Establish World-Class, Campuswide Depression Research Center

Monday, February 07, 2022

The estate of Audrey Steele Burnand has gifted $57.75 million to the University of California, Irvine to fund the creation of a new campus-wide center that will pursue research into the causes and treatment of depression and also support the UCI-managed Steele/Burnand Anza-Borrego Desert Research Center. More than $55 million of the gift is earmarked for advancing depression research at UCI. It’s believed to be the largest philanthropic donation to a U.S. university to support research focused solely on depression, which is the most prevalent mental health disorder in the U.S. “This is a truly transformative gift from a longtime and great supporte...

W.M. Keck Foundation Awards $1M to UCI Team to Study Cartilage Formation

Thursday, February 03, 2022

The W.M. Keck Foundation has awarded $1 million to an interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of California, Irvine to study the formation and health of cartilages, tissues that are vital to skeletal structures. A particular focus for the UCI team, which includes scientists from the School of Biological Sciences and The Henry Samueli School of Engineering, will be an examination of “peculiar cells” that are giant in size and packed with lipid molecules, according to co-principal investigator Maksim Plikus, professor of developmental & cell biology. These cells come together to form and provide mechanical structure to cartilages in the nose, ear...

Irvine: The City of Education

Monday, October 04, 2021

By Bryan Starr, President and CEO, Greater Irvine Chamber | Destination Irvine As published in the Orange County Business Journal, October 4, 2021 (Text included below flipbook.) It’s not surprising that Irvine is one of the best places in the nation to receive an education, from K-12 to Ph.D. More than six decades ago, Irvine was master-planned with education in mind. Visionary city leaders knew that prioritizing education would be the key to the city’s long-term economic vitality and quality of life, so they designed the city around a research institution — known today as the University of California, Irvine (UCI). As the cit...

Bryan Starr Discusses the Legacy of Irvine’s Master Plan in Podcast

Tuesday, August 10, 2021

In a recent radio interview with OC Talk Radio, Bryan Starr, President and CEO of the Greater Irvine Chamber and its destination marketing and economic development divisions, discussed the legacy of Irvine’s Master Plan, the city’s many assets, and the Chamber’s role as convener, champion, and catalyst for economic vitality in the greater Irvine area. “Everything comes back to the master plan,” Starr said, referencing Irvine centered around what is now University of California, Irvine. “The initial step, right away, made us a city of innovation, a city of education, that has been perpetuated into the 21st century.” Impact OC Talk Radio...

Sight Restoration Center to Open at UC Irvine

Wednesday, May 25, 2022

(Orange County Business Journal) In the latest boost to Orange County’s thriving ophthalmology industry, the area will house the second center in the U.S. to restore sight to patients blinded from severe ocular surface disease by 2023. The Holland Foundation for Sight Restoration is building its first “Center of Excellence” at UC Irvine’s Gavin Herbert Eye Institute on the western edge of the university’s campus, where it expects to recreate the ocular transplant program at Cincinnati’s Center for the Restoration of Sight. The foundation plans to open five other centers across the country over the next few years. The Holland Foundation was founded i...

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