Student Stories
Celebrate UCI’s diverse student body and learn more about their individual challenges, goals and successes.
UCI’s ANTrepreneur Center: Supporting Innovation for Student Success
For high school students who dream of joining college esports teams, there isn’t a clear pathway forward. “There is a...
UCI Students Find Technological Support in a Remote World
As a second-year pursuing a degree in civil engineering, Matthew Thomas knew that he would encounter certain...
How the ANTrepreneur Center Supports UCI’s Student Entrepreneurs
Inspiration strikes in the most unlikely of places. For University of California, Irvine (UCI) student Aryan Ghanadan...
SSI: Helping Students Find Success Through Community and Support
In the summer of 2017, Nancy Duong was like many incoming freshmen who were looking for a way to prepare for life at...
Research in the Time of Corona
With shelter-in-place policies in effect throughout the world, much of the U.S. has come to a complete standstill....
Danny Attiyah: “I Will Be Successful One Day”
[remove_header_bg] UC Irvine is part of the American Talent Initiative, a coalition of Universities dedicated to...
Shelby Petty: Proving the Doubters Wrong
Meet Shelby Petty, a UCI Business Economics major and elite athlete with a fierce work ethic. UCI is part of a 95...
#ActivateTalent with this Anteater’s Academic Internship
It’s rough trying to have it all – to be a student, a mentor, a leader and an inspiration – but one talented...
Why Kendra Faraci Believes that Talent is not Restricted to Class, Color, or Status.
That’s right! I know you can’t believe your eyes but #ActivateTalent is back at it again. Today we’re telling you all...
Valerie Nguyen is Proof that It’s Worth the Hard Work to #ActivateTalent
Ahoy there! We are excited to share another #ActivateTalent story as part of our support for the American Talent...
Find Strength to #ActivateTalent for a Better Future: with Fernando Cano
It’s a new quarter and #ActivateTalent is back with another adventure to tell. We’ve been searching the campus,...
Guardian Locket
Universities hold the promise of a better future, a future where the kind of social mobility promised by the American...
Meet Lydia Natoolo: Activating her Talent to Give Back to UCI and the Global Community
Newsflash: superheroes exist, and they are here at UCI. Student, immigrant, and activist Lydia Natoolo has an...
UC Irvine Student Stories – Joshua Kim
My name is Joshua Kim, and I am in my 3rd year for my Ph.D program in Materials Science and Engineering. I am a...
UC Irvine Student Stories – Lloyd Sicard
Life is all about seeing opportunity and taking it every time you get a chance, and this is one of the main reasons...