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Minute to win it: Santora Pitch Lab launches student competition

UCI Foundation trustees Mark and Kathleen Santora cut the ribbon to unveil the brand-new Santora Pitch Lab in the UCI ANTrepreneur Center on Oct. 22. The grand opening took place on a Thursday evening outside the ANTrepreneur Center, with an audience of students, alumni, UCI...

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Minute to win it: Santora Pitch Lab launches student competition

UCI Foundation trustees Mark and Kathleen Santora cut the ribbon to unveil the brand-new Santora Pitch Lab in the UCI ANTrepreneur Center on Oct. 22. The grand opening took place on a Thursday evening outside the ANTrepreneur Center, with an audience of students, alumni, UCI dignitaries and city officials, including Irvine Vice Mayor James Mai.  The Santora Pitch Lab is a versatile space with plenty of movable equipment. Students are able to reserve the center to use its space for meetings, practicing speeches, presentations, and more.  Joe Kiani, the founder of Masmo and Willow Laboratories, spoke to the audience after they had viewed the inside of the lab, beginning a speaker series...

Know Your California Propositions 

California voters will vote on 14 statewide propositions relating to issues ranging from taxes and health care to medical research and housing during the general election on Nov. 3....

How Pierre Baldi helped pioneer neural networks

“This is never going to go anywhere.”  That’s what a well-known International Business Machines (IBM) scientist told Pierre Baldi during a job interview about his neural network research, decades before...

UCI Terminates Bioinformatics major

The Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS), just like many other schools within UCI, offers minors to prepare students to be well versed in a specialization...

Opinion

Artificial Intelligence is overthrowing the purpose of schooling. Now what?

When OpenAI disproved Navier-Stokes just last month, it’s hard to see what artificial intelligence cannot do. Only one year ago, OpenAI was still looking to see if their models could fare against high school...

Proposition 39 is another voter identification law we don’t need

Proposition 39 (Prop 39), which is set to appear on the November 2026 California ballot, will begin requiring citizens to provide a government-issued identification at the ballot box if passed. The aim is simple:...

Vote ‘Yes’ on Proposition 40

What does it take for Governor Gavin Newsom and gubernatorial candidates Democrat Xavier Becerra and Republican Steve Hilton to agree on policy? Apparently, it’s taxing billionaires, as they are all for killing Proposition 40...

Vote no on Proposition 44

Proposition 44 will be on the midterm ballot in California on Nov. 2. The measure proposes the creation of the Clinic Funding Accountability and Transparency Act, which would require Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs)...

How to vote as a college student

Young college students are not politically apathetic. They are inexorably concerned about the cost of living, access to health insurance, human rights and the regulations that will determine their daily livelihoods. Students are also...

Title IX should protect students, not silence them

The U.S. Department of Education rescinded the Biden Administration’s 2024 Title IX rules from the Code of Federal Regulations on Sept. 28, replacing them with rules adopted during Donald Trump’s first presidential term in...

Entertainment

Catching a ‘Vibe’ with psychologist Adam Grant

What makes certain relationships meaningful? What is the point of conflict? How do our interactions shape the society we live in? In his new book “Vibe: The Secrets of Strong...

Fontaines D.C. get existential in new album “Dopamine Chamber”

Two years after the success of their Grammy-nominated album “Romance,” Irish rock band Fontaines D.C. released their fifth album “Dopamine Chamber” on Oct. 16. Fontaines D.C. created a catastrophic atmosphere...

Theater Thursday: ‘Sense and Sensibility’ has audiences yearning with...

Jane Austen novels are notorious for their sense of yearning, and this year’s film adaptation of “Sense and Sensibility” is no different. Released on Oct. 16, “Sense and Sensibility”...

Tuesday Tunes: Tate McRae on being your own “Housewife”...

Tate McRae is one of the biggest pop stars of the modern era of music, with her new “Housewife” single debuting on the Global Spotify Charts when it dropped...

Sports

Women’s Soccer falls 4-0 to Cal Baptist University 

The UCI Women’s Soccer team (4-8-3, 2-5-1) fell 4-0 on the road against the Cal Baptist University Lancers (CBU)...

Women’s soccer falls 2-1 to Long Beach State University

UCI women’s soccer fell 2-1 to Long Beach State University on Oct. 17 in a defensive battle that came...

UCI Men’s Soccer leaves Bakersfield with 0-0 draw

The UC Irvine Men’s Soccer team (6-5-2, 2-1-1 Big West) notched a scoreless tie against their conference-rival, the California...

Women’s Soccer beats out Cal State Bakersfield, 2-0

UC Irvine Women’s Soccer secured its first home conference win of the season against Cal State Bakersfield on Saturday,...

UC Irvine Women’s Tennis signs two new players

UC Irvine Women’s Tennis welcomed two new players to their team this 2026-27 school year: Rachel Gee and Montana...

UCI Athletics reintroduces VAR for 2026 soccer season

After UC Irvine Athletics paused the use of video assistant referee (VAR) during the 2025 soccer season, UCI reintroduced...

UC Irvine Men’s Tennis wraps up strong 2025-26 season

The UC Irvine Men’s Tennis (14-8, 5-1) closed out their 2025-26 season at the Big West Championships on April...

UCI Indoor Track adds two in attempt to repeat

The UC Irvine Women’s Indoor Track & Field team has added two freshmen to their roster in an attempt...

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