University of California, Irvine

Immigration: A wider better welcome mat

2013-05-21 00:00:00

As an immigrant and an engineer, I know the magnetic pull that the United States exerts on anyone who dreams of a career in science. From the time I watched NASA technicians on television during the first lunar landing in 1969, I resolved to get the...

Corporate money in politics: Liberals vs. liberals on Prop. C

2013-05-17 10:37:00

The Times editorial board offended some liberal readers when it urged a no vote on Proposition C, which asks voters in the city of Los Angeles to “instruct” local members of Congress to support a constitutional amendment to overturn the...

Wal-Mart, Gap skirt the issue

2013-05-17 00:00:00

If the horrific garment factory collapse last month in Bangladesh has any silver lining, it is the response from more than 30 of the world's leading apparel companies — including Benetton, PVH, Abercrombie & Fitch, H&M, Inditex (Zara), Marks &...

Second racial incident at UC Irvine roils campus

2013-05-11 18:09:00

A second racial incident in less than a month is roiling the UC Irvine campus. Police said Friday that someone put a note in a black student's backpack that read, "Go back 2 Africa slave." The female student discovered the note while she was in the...

UC Irvine probes hate incident involving racist note

2013-05-15 21:32:00

UC Irvine's chancellor pledged Wednesday to find and discipline whoever slipped a racist note into a black female student's backpack last week. The student found the note, which read "Go back 2 Africa slave," while she was in the science library on...

Doctor linked to 1-800-GET-THIN faces medical board action

2013-05-10 20:54:00

One of the brothers behind the 1-800-GET-THIN ad campaign for weight-loss surgery faces the possible revocation of his medical license in a misconduct case filed by state regulators. The Medical Board of California accused Michael Omidi of "repeated...

UC Irvine student finds racist note calling her a 'slave'

2013-05-10 16:20:00

In the second racially charged on-campus incident in three weeks,�UC Irvine�police said Friday that they are investigating a note found in a black student's backpack that read, "Go back 2 Africa slave." The female student discovered the note while she...

Letter: Why Gitmo may be here to stay

2013-05-04 00:00:00

Re "Obama renews call to close prison," May 1 The slogan "Close Guantanamo" obscures as much as it illuminates. To be sure, the prison there must close, for as President Obama said this week, it is an affront to American values, our global standing...

Walk-on Collin Mehring a rising star in UC Irvine volleyball

2013-05-01 18:10:00

Collin Mehring had been a growing boy and a somewhat unreliable contributor to the UC Irvine men's volleyball team for two years while being an intense student in the school's acclaimed computer science engineering program. And that's hardly surprising....

Online provider offers courses in education, teacher training

2013-04-30 21:00:00

A leading online course provider announced Wednesday that it will offer free professional training and development courses to prepare teachers worldwide for Web-based classes. Coursera, a for-profit clearinghouse for online and videotaped courses...

UC Irvine fraternity suspends itself for releasing blackface video

2013-05-02 14:35:00

A�UC Irvine�fraternity has volunteered to suspend itself after it was blasted for a member-produced video that featured a student in blackface. Lambda Theta Delta announced Wednesday that it would cancel all major events and stop operating as a UCI-...

Hoag Hospital to stop performing elective abortions

2013-05-05 17:32:00

In a letter to affiliated physicians and staff, Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach has announced that elective abortions will no longer be performed at the hospital. The letter said the decision is based of the low number of procedures done annually at...

Erwin Chemerinsky is dean of the UC Irvine School of Law and a prominent liberal legal scholar.

2013-05-17 09:57:41

The UC Irvine campus.

2013-05-12 07:24:37

Dedra Butler, UC Irvine Assistant Athletic Director of Academics & Student Affairs, left, gets her t-shirt autographed by volleyball players Michael Brinkley, center, and Michael Saeta, right, after a ceremony celebrating the Anteaters' back-to-back NCAA men's volleyball national championship on

2013-05-07 00:00:00