March 31 - New diversity hiring effort; women of BioSci
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Anteater Time Machine: A rollerblade performance on campus in November 1989.
UCI ANNOUNCEMENTS AND NEWS
Celebrating the women of BioSci
In honor of Women’s History Month, the School of Biological Sciences highlighted some of its female faculty and students.
Sandra Cisneros book club forms ahead of campus lecture
To prepare for an April 28 online event with Sandra Cisneros, the bestselling author of The House on Mango Street, UCI’s Chican@/Latin@ Staff Association is launching a book club to read her new novel, Martita, I Remember You/Martita, te recuerdo. The deadline to apply to the club is Monday.
UCI and 3 UCs collaborate on hiring more Hispanic faculty
With only 6% of the UC system’s teaching faculty coming from racial or ethnic minority groups, the new UC Hiring Interventions for Representation and Equity alliance – involving principal investigators from UCI, UC San Diego, UC Santa Cruz and UC Santa Barbara – aims to boost hiring of STEM instructors from Hispanic backgrounds. “With this NSF-funded UC HIRE alliance, the system is taking important steps toward making the population of teaching professors more representative of our student population,” said UCI Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Hal Stern.
UC NEWS AND GENERAL NEWS
Alcohol-related deaths rose 25% during pandemic
Among adults younger than 65, alcohol-related deaths actually outnumbered deaths from COVID-19 in 2020, according to a study by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, a division of the National Institutes of Health.
O.C. COVID hospitalizations remain below 100
The last time the county had fewer than 100 COVID-infected patients was July 9, 2021, before last summer’s delta-variant surge. The number of ICU patients fell from 20 to 17, according to the latest data.
EVENTS
SASICon22: Love Letters to Liberation
Saturday, 9:45 a.m. (sponsored by Students Activating Social Innovation)
Vera Molnár Variations opening reception
Saturday, 2 p.m. (sponsored by Beall Center for Art + Technology)
The Spirit of Soul Food book talk and demo
Monday, noon (sponsored by UCI Illuminations)
Privilege and Punishment book talk
Monday, noon (sponsored by Center on Law, Equality and Race and Department of Criminology, Law & Society)
The State of the World’s Antibiotics in 2022
Monday, noon (sponsored by Population Health and Disease Prevention)
California leads the way on expanding health insurance coverage to undocumented immigrants: Likely impacts and future plans
Monday, noon (sponsored by Program in Public Health)
Visit today.uci.edu to see and submit event listings. Events of general interest will be shared in UCI Digest two days before they occur.
UCI IN THE NEWS
Note: Some news sites require subscriptions to read articles. The UCI Libraries offer free subscriptions to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Orange County Register and The Washington Post for students, faculty and staff.
Americans are taking fewer precautions two years into the pandemic, poll says.
The New York Times, March 30
Cited: Andrew Noymer, associate professor of public health
The underdiscussed upsides of screen time for kids
Deseret News, March 24
Mimi Ito, ICS professor in residence
Apprehension and the Aging of Undocumented Parents
Generations, March 23
Cited: Laura E. Enriquez, associate professor of Chicano/Latino Studies
#UCICONNECTED
Natalia Marie (aka @natamarie_5) celebrates her admission to UCI grad school on Instagram, saying she’ll be pursuing a teaching credential and master’s degree starting this summer. “Definitely excited and nervous for this new chapter in my life,” she notes.
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