The arts respond to COVID-19
Few elements of society suffered as much as live music and theater productions when COVID-19 struck. At the UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts, a whole season’s worth of scheduled productions went o...
5 Jan 202119min
Undoing Trump’s environmental regulation rollbacks
Clean air standards, water pollution rules and public lands protections have all been scaled back under the Trump administration, which aggressively attacked the administrative state. Under the Biden ...
15 Dec 202020min
COVID-19's long-term economic and health impacts
COVID-19’s disastrous impacts are obvious: a quarter million deaths in the U.S., millions of jobs lost and a financial downturn that prompted a $2 trillion economic stimulus. These impacts are front a...
8 Dec 202022min
Diary of a Med Student
Burnout and stress have been on the rise among medical students for years, and the COVID-19 pandemic has only made things worse. Helping their fellow medical students cope inspired UCI's Ajay Nair Sha...
1 Dec 202017min
UCI Podcast: The frontline view of COVID-19’s disparate impact
Dr. José Mayorga has witnessed firsthand the disparate impacts of COVID-19 on different communities in Orange County. As executive director of the Family Health Center, a federally qualified health ce...
24 Nov 202017min
UCI Podcast: Orange County election analysis and social justice under Biden
A wave of Democratic victories in Orange County during the 2018 midterm election — including four Congressional seats that flipped from red to blue — convinced many that Republicans’ days here were nu...
17 Nov 202022min
UCI Podcast: What’s next with COVID
Andrew Noymer is an associate professor of public health at UCI, and he’s an expert on public health responses to pandemics like COVID-19 and their long-term consequences. In this special UCI Podcast,...
9 Nov 202028min
UCI Podcast: COVID-19 Testing and Tracing
With a student resident population of 7,000 for Fall Quarter, UCI embarked on an ambitious combined effort to help slow the spread of coronavirus on campus: weekly asymptomatic testing for resident st...
4 Nov 202042min
