The University Council-American Federation of Teachers (UC-AFT) held a rally outside of Aldrich Hall following the expiration of their union contract which affects more than 6,500 UC faculty members on Feb. 3.
Pacific Symphony welcomed the Year of the Rat with a Lunar New Year performance at the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall in Costa Mesa on Jan. 25.
A Newport Beach woman pled guilty of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and confessed to paying $9,000 to have someone take her son’s online classes at Georgetown in a federal court in Massachusetts on Jan. 22.
UCI CARE and the Legal Education Clinic held a presentation sharing details of CARE’s advocacy program along with state rights and university policies that offer support and protection of sexual violence survivors on school campuses on Jan. 30.
UCI Student Life and Leadership hosted the Anteater Leadership Summit, offering students access to workshops as a way to provide support in the areas of leadership, inclusion, diversity and professional development on Friday, Jan. 24.
On Jan. 25, the OC Health Care Agency (HCA) confirmed the first Orange County case of the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in Santa Ana, tracing the source to a traveler from Wuhan, China, the origin of the disease.
The AntARTers — an open and accessible art club on campus — hosted their first art show of Winter Quarter which showcased a wide variety of student-made artwork to the local community on Jan.15.
The City of Irvine has installed a new traffic control system on Alton Parkway as a way to better warn drivers of the high levels of pedestrian foot traffic in the area.
Planned Parenthood of Orange and San Bernardino Counties (PPOSBC) offered an early endorsement for Irvine City Council candidate Lauren Johnson-Norris, the current Chair of Irvine’s Community Services Commission.
The 2020 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics has been awarded to UCI Distinguished Professor of mathematics Svetlana Jitomirskaya. She is the second woman to receive the award since its establishment in 1959 and the first woman to receive it on her own, following Cornell University’s Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat who co-received the prize in 2003 with James W. York.
