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A cherry blossom tree blooms near Humanities Hall and the Anteater Learning Pavilion. Photo by Steve Zylius/UCI
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UCI ANNOUNCEMENTS AND NEWS
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Wiley Wilson (left) is the pilot program coordinator and academic achievement counselor for Umoja at UCI; Summer Moss is the resident advisor of the Umoja house in the on-campus housing community Arroyo Vista. Photo by Steve Zylius/UCI
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Umoja at UCI offers Black transfer students support, resources and family
Named after the Kiswahili word for “unity,” Umoja is a program that spans across 70 community colleges and four-year universities in support of Black excellence in the transfer community. At UCI, it exists in two parts; the pilot program and the Umoja club. Hosted in the Transfer Student Center, it offers Black transfer students an array of resources from academic advising and mentorship to scholarships and dedicated housing. It is the first Umoja program in the UC system that is retention-based, dedicated to seeing their members who have entered UCI succeed to and past graduation.
No UCI Digest on Monday
Because of the Presidents’ Day holiday, there will be no UCI Digest on Monday. Have a safe weekend, and we’ll see you Tuesday.
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Health equity survey shows differences in perceptions among Californians
According to a new report by the California Health Care Foundation cited in today’s Los Angeles Times, more than half of Black Californians said there was a time in the last few years when they thought they would have received better healthcare if they had belonged to a different racial or ethnic group. By comparison, just 27% of Latinos, 12% of Asian people and 4% of white people responded the same way. The report summarized results from a survey that asked more than 1,700 Californians about their views on health equity, health costs, health access, housing, their experience in the health system and more.
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People lined up outside the Supreme Court in 1977, before oral arguments in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke. Photo by AP
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Why is affirmative action in peril? One man’s decision
The New York Times takes a detailed, fascinating look back at how a 1978 Supreme Court case preserving affirmative action at UC Davis may also have set the stage for its demise today. Archibald Cox, a Harvard law professor who had served in JFK’s administration and as Watergate special prosecutor, defended affirmative action before the court. Cox worked on his arguments for months “in an office hidden away on one of the upper levels of the Harvard law library. Each day, his secretary brought him a pot of tea and two Pepperidge Farm cookies on a porcelain dish,” the paper writes.
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Mental Health Resource Fair
Tuesday, 11 a.m. (sponsored by Student Wellness & Health Promotion)
PSAC Community Roundtable (Hybrid Event)
Tuesday, 3 p.m. (sponsored by Public Safety Advisory Committee)
Daybreak Dialogues: Minding Your Mental Health
Wednesday, 7:30 a.m. (sponsored by School of Social Ecology)
Samuel Ting, Nobel Laureate of Physics - An Asian/American Journey
Wednesday, 2:30 p.m. (sponsored by Illuminations: The Chancellor's Arts & Culture Initiative
Visit today.uci.edu to see and submit event listings. Events of general interest will be shared in UCI Digest two days before they occur.
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Note: Some news sites require subscriptions to read articles. The UCI Libraries offer free subscriptions to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Orange County Register and The Washington Post for students, faculty and staff.
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U.S. News & World Report, Feb. 16
Cited: Dr. Lisa Gibbs, chief of the division of geriatric medicine and gerontology and the Ronald Reagan Chair in Geriatric Medicine
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The Healthy, Feb. 16
Cited: Gloria Mark, psychologist and the Chancellor’s Professor of informatics
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London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE Impact Blog), Feb. 17
Cited: Lauren N. Ross, associate professor of logic and philosophy of science
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@City_of_Irvine tweets: The Super Bowl is over, but we still have another exciting game to look forward to! Join us in cheering on @UCImbb at City of Irvine Day this Saturday, Feb. 18, as the team takes on UC Davis at 1 p.m. at the Bren Events Center.
#UCIconnected spotlights student, alumni, faculty and staff photos, essays, shoutouts, hobbies, artwork, unusual office decorations, activities and more. Send submissions via email or post on social media with the #UCIconnected hashtag.
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COVID-19 NOTIFICATION & HEALTH RESOURCES
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Upload your vaccine and booster records
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Daily COVID-19 Symptom check
By coming to campus each day, students and employees are attesting they are free of COVID-19 symptoms and are not COVID-19 positive. If you currently have symptoms of COVID-19 or recently tested positive, do not come to campus, or if you currently live on campus stay in your residence, and follow instructions for reporting your case or assessing symptoms on the UCI Forward page. Close contacts to a COVID-19 case are not required to stay home or quarantine, but should follow guidance for close contact instructions for masking and testing on the UCI Forward page.
Potential workplace exposure
UCI provides this notification of a potential workplace COVID-19 exposure. Employees and subcontractors who were in these locations on the dates listed may have been exposed to the coronavirus. You may be entitled to various benefits under applicable federal and state laws and University-specific policies and agreements. The full notification is available on the UCI Forward site. If you have been identified as a close contact to a COVID-19 case, the UCI Contact Tracing Program will contact you and provide additional direction.
UCI Forward – information on campus status and operational updates
UCI Health COVID-19 Updates – important information related to UCI Health
UCI Coronavirus Response Center – available at covid19@uci.edu or 949-824-9918
Contact Tracing and Vaccine Navigation Services – assistance with vaccines and vaccine uploads or to report a case, available at contacttracing@uci.edu or 949-824-2300
For questions specific to your personal health situation, please contact your doctor or healthcare provider.
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