On May 21, the university’s annual Stella Zhang New Venture Competition will take place at the Paul Merage School of Business Auditorium. Ten student teams competing for a share of $100,000 in prize money will take the stage at UC Irvine to pitch their...
Fourth-year UC Irvine students Sihyun Park and Kyumin Kwack are set to release their mobile app ClassMate in early June.
The app combines features such as course planning, community forums and campus news, aiming to consolidate school-related navigation tools.
Park, an economics major, and Kwack, an electrical engineering major, are exchange students from Yonsei University in South Korea. They created ClassMate after struggling to navigate campus resources and organize their daily lives.
“We had no information how all the classes were, and what kind of other services there are, and we didn't know where to ask, most of all, and we both had a really hard time figuring that out by...
Fourth-year UC Irvine students Sihyun Park and Kyumin Kwack are set to release their mobile app ClassMate in early June.
The app combines features such as course planning, community forums...
The Fashion Collective at UC Irvine (FITS at UCI) hosted its annual runway show on May 12. This spring’s theme, “Vice and Virtue,” featured the work of six student...
In collaboration with fourth-year business economics student Nakya Solomon, UCI professor of dance S. Ama Wray created Restive Moves: A Multimedia Festival — Dance, Music, Film & Mindfulness, to...
College students are frequently encouraged to live in the moment, yet an increasing number fear the present will become the past. At UCI, students live through ongoing experiences as though they have already concluded....
UCI has an ant problem, and I have the solution.
As I write this piece at the Student Center Starbucks, I’ve had several ants crawl up my arms. Is this annoying? Yes. Does it break...
As drone strikes devastate countries across the world, military branches continue to market their esports teams. Yet, within the esports community, there is little regard for how digitally-executed violence methodically compromises the moral integrity...
In his 1946 lecture “Existentialism is a Humanism,” Jean-Paul Sartre put forth a claim about identity: existence precedes essence. Human beings, he argues, are not born with a fixed nature or predetermined purpose that...
As the school year closes out, New University has opened editor applications for every section for the 2026-2027 academic cycle. Applicants do not need to have previous experience with the paper and all undergraduate...
For many people, punctuation was just another part of grammar drilled into them through years of worksheets and reading books. Students were taught to understand commas as pauses, periods as the end of thoughts...
The 2026 Met Gala once again marked fashion’s most anticipated night on May 4. The annual fundraising event for the Costume Institute’s spring exhibition brought together a star-studded guest...
When Zara Larsson sang about “a never-ending midnight sun,” she was not kidding.
Her original album “Midnight Sun” put her in the pop girl conversation for good. Fresh off of...
Editor's Note: This article was edited on May 11, 2026 to correct image credits.
Anne Hathaway’s first film release of the month “Mother Mary” arrives just before the anticipated “The...
Editor’s note: This article was edited on May 13, 2026 to update a stock graphic to a staff-produced one.
After two years of development, the UCI student-made indie game Kawai’ian Isolation...
