The UC Irvine Podcast

Every June, the United States celebrates Pride Month, commemorating the 1969 uprising at the Stonewall Inn that inspired a global movement toward LGBTQ+ equality. The rich history of gay bars leading up to and since the Stonewall Riots is thoroughly explored in "The Bars Are Ours: Histories and Cultures of Gay Bars in America, 1960 and After," written by Lucas Hilderbrand, UC Irvine professor and...

In 2021, UC Irvine officially became a health-promoting university through the adoption of the Okanagan Charter. In this edition of the UCI Podcast, Doug Everhart, director of Student Wellness and Health Promotion, will discuss what it means to adopt the Okanagan Charter, how it enables UC Irvine to be a health-promoting university and explore the creation of its comprehensive wellbeing initiative...

Each May, the U.S. recognizes Mental Health Awareness Month, established 75 years ago to highlight the importance of this essential issue in Americans’ lives. It’s also a time to recognize the resilience of people who live with mental health conditions and honor all those who stand by them – a group that includes both family and friends, and the dedicated mental health care professionals providing...

Various researchers in UC Irvine’s School of Education are studying the wide range of technological innovations available to enhance education, including assistant professors Shayan Doroudi and Nia Nixon. One facet of Doroudi’s research focuses on how different technologies improve learning. A segment of Nixon’s work centers on developing AI-based interventions to promote inclusivity in team probl...

March is Women’s History Month, an opportunity to celebrate the numerous contributions that women have made to American society. In this episode of the UCI Podcast, we’ll shine a spotlight on women who have worked tirelessly to bring attention to injustice via the Black Lives Matter movement and others like it. Begun in 2013 after the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of 17-year-...

In this special episode of the UCI Insider podcast, director of Financial Aid & Scholarships, Becki Sanchez, and senior associate director of Financial Aid & Scholarships, Crystal Maudale, explain the changes found in the simplified Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).

Bridget R. Cooks, UC Irvine professor and Chancellor’s Fellow of art history and African American studies, was invited to participate on the advisory committee for an upcoming six-month exhibition at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art titled “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism.” She also wrote a piece detailing the history of Harlem Renaissance shows for the event’s official cat...

Who are UCI’s Underground Scholars? In 2018, students established the Underground Scholars Initiative to create pathways into higher education for incarcerated, formerly incarcerated and system-impacted individuals. After three years, USI members advocated for a staff-led program, leading to the formation of the Underground Scholars Program in October 2021. The two groups are separate but aligned...

Supported by funding from the National Science Foundation since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Roxane Cohen Silver focuses her research on how major tragedies – both mass violence and natural disasters – are depicted in the media and how this may affect the health – physical and mental – of consumers. After the events of 9/11, there have been a series of events that have allowed the Dist...

In this episode of the UCI Podcast, Sheri Ledbetter, UCI's director of internal and critical communications, speaks with Dale Leaman, the executive director of the Office of Undergraduate Admissions. The discussion centers on requirements prospective students should keep in mind when applying to UCI and the other UC campuses. There is also some information about the emerging role of artificial int...

Schools shape the lives of students in many ways. Along with teaching the basic skills that will help them function in and contribute to a society – such as reading, writing and arithmetic – ideally, a school will also help young people identify their strengths in order to reach their full potential. In addition, schools educate students about identities. From early labels like “kindergartner” or...

In this episode of the Anteater Insider podcast, Vice Provost for Enrollment Management Patty Morales and fourth-year Education Sciences student Ella Lee discuss the barriers UCI students face along the way to graduation and how the university is working to address those barriers through analytics and data partnerships to support student progress.

Ian O. Williamson, dean of UCI’s Paul Merage School of Business, is a globally recognized expert in the field of human resource management, a reputation earned by traveling the world over to examine how talent pipelines affect organizational and community outcomes. In this UCI Podcast, Williamson identifies significant changes in business during the last decade, analyzes how the pandemic altered b...

What makes a hit? That’s a question that Noah Askin has devoted his career to answering. The assistant professor of teaching in the academic area of organization and management in UCI’s Paul Merage School of Business focuses his research on the production and consumption of culture. In this UCI Podcast, Askin describes how he scoured the Billboard charts to investigate which characteristics of son...

Dean of UCI's School of Social Sciences for the past decade, anthropology professor Bill Maurer recently agreed to five more years at the helm of the school with the largest percentage of undergraduates majoring in their departments. In this UCI Podcast, Maurer describes how he morphed from reluctant leader to a third term as dean, reflects on his first decade in the role and looks ahead to what’s...

People all over the world are taking notice of "Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness and Productivity," a new book by UCI’s Gloria Mark, Chancellor’s Professor of Informatics. For over two decades, Mark has studied human-computer interaction, examining how the increase in our society’s use of technology has altered people’s attention spans. In this UCI Podcast, Mark e...

Arash Kheradvar, UC Irvine professor of biomedical engineering, is co-principal investigator on a project to study congenital heart defects. As part of the National Science Foundation-funded initiative, Dr. Kheradvar invited local area high school students into his laboratory on the UCI campus. The students got first-hand exposure to cardiovascular research activities, experts in the field and the...

With the 53rd annual Earth Week set to begin on Monday, April 17, we’ll ask one of UCI’s strongest student advocates for sustainability - UC Climate Action Fellow Joy Seo - to share what the concept means, how it shaped her future and for actions we can all take to better care of Earth and each other. This episode of the UCI Podcast was recorded in the podcast studio in the ANTrepreneur Center. Mu...

In this episode of the UCI Podcast, we’re going to dive into undergraduate admissions and discuss what the process is once offers of admissions go out and how a waitlist works. Joining Sheri Ledbetter is Dale Leaman, the executive director of the Office of Undergraduate Admissions. Leaman brings an extensive background to higher education with 27 total years with the University of California and t...

As March Madness in college basketball begins this week, it’s a great time to talk with Victoria E. Johnson, UCI professor of film and media studies and African American studies and the author of the recently-published Sports TV, an introductory guide to the history of sports television in the United States. What are some of the biggest transformations sports TV has experienced in the decades that...

In this episode of the Anteater Insider, vice provost for enrollment management, Patricia Morales, and director of undergraduate advising for social ecology, Danielle Primavera, discuss how they collaborate on lifting the student experience to meet students where they are in their academic journey. Together, they reflect on how their partnership is helping advisors to navigate a successful path to...

Brett Sanders, UC Irvine professor of civil and environmental engineering, has been focusing his research efforts on understanding flood risk in Southern California, with a significant emphasis on the impact of climate change-caused sea level rise on coastal communities. Lately he has been examining flood risk to populations living further inland, in many cases affecting people of lower socioecono...

In this episode of the UCI Podcast, we’re going to dive into the applications process with an insight into undergraduate admissions. Joining Sheri Ledbetter is Dale Leaman, the executive director of the Office of Undergraduate Admissions. Leaman brings an extensive background to higher education with 27 total years with the University of California and the last 10 with UCI. He's been the executive...

If you haven’t heard, there’s been big news recently about Alzheimer’s disease. Over the past year, the Food and Drug Administration has approved two new treatments that may slow the cognitive decline in people with dementia, and studies are under way to see if these treatments possibly delay or prevent the onset of Alzheimer’s. To help us understand these developments, Dr. Joshua Grill is joining...

What are the major conversations happening around education right now, and why is research significant in these conversations? How will technology continue to shape the future of education? What is it going to take for teachers to feel supported in their craft? How do today’s students differ from those of past generations? These are some of the many questions we pose to Frances Contreras, dean of...