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August 2014
Issue No. 53



Summer Welcome Receptions

for Parents

The Parent Leadership Committee welcomes parents of newly admitted UCI students to attend this summer's Anteater Welcome Receptions. Receptions connect new students and their families to current members of the Anteater community including students, alumni and university leaders before they arrive on campus. Families will have a chance to socialize and ask questions about the first-year UCI experience.
 
We hope you will join us for light refreshments in celebration of our incoming class of students.
 
The Office of Parent Programs is also looking for current parents and students willing to assist with events and help welcome incoming families. If you are interested in volunteering at a reception near you, please contact Ashley Teran via email at [email protected] or by phone at 949.824.6373.
 
Please see the full Anteater Welcome Reception schedule for reception events and faculty speakers in your area.
 
UCI Campus Recreation Receives American Red Cross Award

 
UCI Campus Recreation's CPR and First Aid Training program has been awarded a certificate of appreciation from American Red Cross.
 
The CPR and First Aid Training instructors at Campus Recreation have been awarded American Red Cross Certificates of Appreciation for their loyalty, consistency and persistency in equipping the UCI Community with valuable lifesaving skills for over 24 years. 

In addition to training volumes of people, the American Red Cross has designated Campus Recreation as a 'VIP account'. To qualify for this status, an organization must be supportive of preparedness, health and safety training for the community, and blood donation. Campus Recreation provides lifesaving training courses occurring up to seven days a week, which, according to the Red Cross, is an extraordinary feat. 

Through Campus Recreation's efforts of CPR/AED training, swim lessons, Lifeguarding, Disaster Preparedness and UCI's Medical blood donation program, UCI Has been recognized for excellence in authorized providers. 

 

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Director of UCI's Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program prods students to learn from the world beyond the classroom
 

Said Shokair was supposed to be a doctor. His high school test scores qualified him for medical school, which he entered at age 17 in his native Syria. Six months later, though, after chatting with an uncle who was a pediatric cardiologist at UCLA, he opted to come to Southern California to complete his studies.
 
Several thousand UC Irvine students and alumni have good reason to celebrate that seemingly serendipitous about-face: Shokair exposed them to an education they might not otherwise have experienced.
 
After trading medical school for a UCI double major in electrical engineering and biology, Shokair graduated in 1990 and began to work with students at his alma mater. At first, he was a math counselor, a mentor for underrepresented students and a grant writer/curriculum developer.
 
Then, in 1994, he helped craft the proposal that redirected his career and, possibly, the careers of thousands of UCI students who learned that the best education often is found in the world outside their textbooks.
 
Shokair became the founding director of what is now UCI's Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), where he has spent nearly 20 years designing and directing collaborations that get his young charges out of the classroom and into the laboratory or field.
 
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