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| Incoming students learn to Zot at the Convocation ceremony. (Photo by Steve Zylius / UC Irvine) |
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| | UC Irvine places eighth among nation’s best public universities in U.S. News rankings |
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| For the 12th year running, UC Irvine has landed among the top 10 public universities in the country, placing eighth in U.S. News & World Report’s 2027 list of “Best Colleges” – its highest public-university ranking in over a decade. “We are all very pleased that U.S. News & World Report has once again recognized the distinguished excellence of our teaching, research and public service,” said UC Irvine Chancellor Howard Gillman. “Being in the top 10 for the 12th consecutive year is especially gratifying in light of our commitment to inclusive excellence and educating our state’s best and most talented students regardless of their financial circumstances.” |
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| More opportunities. Fewer cars |
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| The conventional math seems simple: More students should mean more cars. At UC Irvine, the numbers tell a different story. Over the past two decades, the university has welcomed thousands of additional students while expanding its research and academic health enterprises. Yet campus traffic has moved in the opposite direction. Since 2016, the student population has grown 14 percent, while the number of vehicles coming to campus has declined 47 percent. “The best transportation investment isn’t a road or a parking structure. It’s housing,” said Ron Fleming, executive director of transportation and distribution services. “When students live where they learn, we reduce daily vehicle trips, strengthen campus life and lessen impacts on the surrounding community. That’s exactly the kind of long-term thinking that guides our planning.” |
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| | The AI layer powering research |
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| At the heart of UC Irvine's efforts to understand Alzheimer's disease is a quiet technological shift. ZotGPT Gateway, the university’s next-generation AI API platform, has become a meaningful tool for researchers like Vivek Swarup. Inside his lab in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, scientists are working to understand what happens at the molecular level in a brain with Alzheimer’s disease. The partnership between Swarup’s lab and the OIT team running ZotGPT is a straightforward example of UC Irvine’s own tools supporting the institution’s research from the inside out. In this collaboration, Alzheimer’s research is moving faster than ever before. |
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| | One neurosurgeon’s quest for a better tool |
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| Neurointerventionalist Dr. Ichiro Yuki found a better way to block blood flow while navigating the brain’s delicate vessels. To move this technology beyond the lab, Yuki is learning entirely different disciplines: patents, funding, regulatory navigation, and building an enterprise to produce and test the material. At UC Irvine, Beall Applied Innovation became his entry point. |
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| | A message from President James B. Milliken to the UC community |
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| In this message, UC President James Milliken asks the UC community to join him in cultivating a campus environment where everyone feels respected and safe, and can thrive. |
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| | | Join UC this Thursday, Sept. 24, for a Siteimprove training session focused on making the most of the accessibility and quality assurance modules. Learn practical ways to monitor site health, identify and prioritize accessibility and quality issues, use Siteimprove scores and dashboards, and find additional resources and support. |
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| | School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences awarded NIH grants |
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| John Chaput (top center), Glenn Micalizio (left), Brian Paegel (right) and Darci Trader (bottom center) from the School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences have been awarded a combined $7.9 million in National Institutes of Health grants to advance their research. |
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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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The Wall Street Journal, Sept. 22 Cited: Brett Sanders, Chancellor's Professor of civil and environmental engineering |
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The New York Times, Sept. 22 Cited: Mimi Ito, professor of informatics and director of the Connected Learning Lab |
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Contemporary Pediatrics, Sept. 21 Cited: Dr. Tallie Z. Baram, Distinguished Professor of pediatrics, anatomy & neurobiology, and neurology |
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