Olympic Anteaters Week 1 roundup
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The first week of the 2024 Summer Olympics is in the books, and UCI Athletics has been hard at work keeping score of the Anteater action in Paris. Alumna Tara Prentice (above, smiling) and the U.S. women’s water polo team advanced to the quarterfinals. The Americans posted convincing victories over Greece (15-6), Italy (10-3) and host country France (17-5) and suffered a rare loss to Spain (13-11) in a rematch from the gold-medal game in the 2021 Tokyo Games.
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Indoor men’s volleyball also concluded group action on Friday afternoon as France finished with a 2-1 record. Anteater Kevin Tillie (above, second from right) and the French defeated Canada in three sets but found themselves in five-set thrillers when beating Serbia and falling to Slovenia. Team USA, featuring Anteater David Smith (below, far right), completed the opening round with three wins, defeating Argentina in a three-set match, Germany in five sets and Japan in four. Both UC Irvine alumni, Tillie and Smith are now advancing with their teams to the semifinals.
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Representing Australia in men’s beach volleyball, Anteater Thomas Hodges (below) recorded 15 kills, one ace and four blocks in the team’s 2-0 loss to Poland. The Australians also lost to Germany, despite UC Irvine alumnus Hodges registering 18 kills, three aces and four blocks. On Saturday, the Aussies collected a 2-0 win over France but saw their Olympic run come to an end with a 2-0 loss to Team USA.
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Finally, Jordan Cheng, Team USA women’s volleyball coach, who was assistant coach for UC Irvine’s men’s volleyball team from 2015 to 2018, has helped the duo of Kelly Cheng and Sara Hughes to a perfect 3-0 record, advancing to the knockout round. The Americans defeated the Czech Republic (21-16, 21-11), France (21-16, 23-21) and Germany (21-18, 21-18). Battling hard, the U.S. women won their round-of-16 match against Italy in three sets (21-18, 17-21, 15-12) to advance to today’s quarterfinal round versus Switzerland.
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Sustainability achievements and tips from UC Irvine
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Ecological tour highlights interdisciplinary climate action program
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M.J. Yang (center) discusses native and non-native grasses near the top of the UC Irvine Ecological Preserve. (Photo: Aaron Katzeman)
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M.J. Yang, a Tongva biologist, ethnobotanist and scientific illustrator, recently led UC Irvine students, faculty and community members on a walk through the UC Irvine Ecological Preserve. The group learned about the ecological and cultural significance of native plants on the traditional Tongva and Acjachemen lands upon which UC Irvine’s campus was built. The tour was arranged in part through UC Irvine’s Wildlife-Urban Interface Climate Action Network, or WUICAN, a collaboration between six disciplines on campus – Humanities, Social Ecology, Social Sciences, Law, Biological Sciences and Earth System Science – and three UCs: Irvine, Riverside and San Diego. Funded by the second-largest grant awarded by the UC Office of the President for climate action work, it's an example of the wide scope of such efforts in the UC.
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SpeechMatters Podcast: The Impact of Recent Supreme Court Decisions
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The U.S. Supreme Court closed out its most recent term with sweeping decisions that affect both the national regulatory and higher education landscapes. Leading constitutional scholar Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of UC Berkeley’s School of Law and founding dean of UC Irvine’s School of Law, joins SpeechMatters to share his insights on this Supreme Court term and his reflections on the tumultuous past year on campus.
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#UCIconnected spotlights interesting updates from the UC Irvine community. #IamUCI spotlights profiles of students, faculty, staff and alumni. Send submissions via email or post on social media with the #UCIconnected or #IamUCI hashtags.
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Spectrum News 1, Aug. 2
Cited: Pierre Baldi, Distinguished Professor of computer science
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Voice of OC, Aug. 5
Cited: Dr. Shruti Gohil, assistant professor of infectious diseases, and Daniel Parker, associate professor of population health and disease prevention
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Orange County Business Journal, Aug. 5
Cited: Alexandre Chan, professor of clinical pharmacy practice
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