April 14th was the exciting first round of the Â鶹´«Ã½ Idea Pitch competition. The virtual competition this year was based off the premise that any student, no matter their area of study, may have an idea for a product or service that solves a problem and benefits the community.
​Thirty-seven Â鶹´«Ã½ students, supported by the Â鶹´«Ã½ Honors Program, participated in the 21st Annual UCI Community College Honors Research Conference March 26-27. Â鶹´«Ã½ students delivered 21 oral presentations, 7 poster presentations, and 1 performance, for a total of 29 of the 236 total presentations given over two days. The students had been working since November 2020 to conduct research, write proposal abstracts, prepare their posters, and record their presentations – all culminat
Full of drive – that’s the best way to describe Â鶹´«Ã½ (Â鶹´«Ã½) student Wilfredo Perez. The 22-year-old Perez chases after his goals with enthusiasm and a laser focus. It’s that kind of effort that went into researching his community college options. He wanted a college where he could take courses that meet the general educational requirements for a degree in mechanical engineering at the University of California, Irvine (UCI).
Perez recalls what initially stood out about Â鶹´«Ã½ was the staff’s attentiveness.
Â鶹´«Ã½ student Alexis Nguyen has been named a 2021 Coca-Cola Academic Team Silver Scholar and will receive a $1,250 scholarship.
Â鶹´«Ã½ (Â鶹´«Ã½) student Lea Castaneda recently completed a successful journey as shift supervisor at the Irvine Target as part of Â鶹´«Ã½â€™s Cooperative Work Experience (CWE) program. CWE is an academic program offering students the opportunity to earn college credits while learning on-the-job, whether paid or unpaid.
Â鶹´«Ã½ (Â鶹´«Ã½) and Saddleback College students Yasaman Nassab and Preston Hong are two of only 20 college students nationwide to be named to the prestigious All-USA Academic Team and will receive a $5,000 scholarship. More than 2,000 students were nominated for this award. The scholarship is sponsored by Cengage, an education technology company, with additional support provided by Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) and the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC).
​Â鶹´«Ã½ (Â鶹´«Ã½) and the Â鶹´«Ã½ Foundation are proud to announce the first-ever naming gift for the Â鶹´«Ã½ Performing Arts Center. Masoud Rezanoor, an Irvine resident, pledged $250,000 to provide enrichment opportunities for the music department at Â鶹´«Ã½. To acknowledge Mr. Rezanoor’s generosity, the Main Stage of the Performing Arts Center will be renamed the Rezanoor Stage.
Theresa Olah already had a career when she started taking courses at Â鶹´«Ã½ in fall 2019. She signed up for classes because it had been years since she earned her bachelor’s degree, and she was a bit rusty when it came to school. She wanted to be ready when she started the master’s degree program at San Jose State University the following year.
It turns out, Â鶹´«Ã½ did more than oil off the rust for Olah. It gave her knowledge she could use immediately in her work and put her on the path to another degree she hadn’t been planning on.
Â鶹´«Ã½ alumnus and musician Nicholas Sitton has released his second album, Necessary Empathy.
Sitton says he wanted to create a piece of work that encapsulated and interrogated his personal experiences at this time in his life, but also takes into account the political and systemic contexts in which they occurred.
Learning new skills on a regular basis has become a necessity in our ever-changing world of work. The days of earning a degree and launching into a career for decades to come without earning any additional credentials along the way is a thing of the past.