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December 2014
Issue No. 57




UCI biomedical engineering seniors inspire medical breakthrough

Seven UCI seniors in the biomedical engineering program worked tirelessly for seven months to design inexpensive yet highly effective prostheses for dogs. The students' invention is a fully adjustable universal design, making it easy to manufacture and order with minimal wait times.

 

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Shop The Hill for the holidays


 

Enjoy great savings on holiday gift-giving for Anteaters. The Hill's Holiday Sale is Tuesday, 12/9 through Thursday, 12/11! Enjoy 20% off all apparel, gifts, general books, supplies and select computer items!


 

The Holiday Sale also extends online at thehill.uci.edu with 20% off apparel, gifts and emblematics - just use the code HOLIDAY20 between
8 a.m. on 12/9 through 7 p.m. on 12/11.


 

What with the holidays in full swing, on campus we like to keep our school spirit as high as our holiday spirit! The Hill is also offering the Eater Nation tee for $10 at all UCI home basketball games. Outfit your student in school spirit and save!

Alumna Melissa King '05 vies to be 'Top Chef'

Anteaters are known for having sharp claws, not sharp knives, but that may change when UC Irvine alumna Melissa King joins the popular television cooking competition Top Chef

 

She's one of 16 "cheftestants" who put their culinary skills to the test in the show's 12th season filmed in Boston and currently airing on Bravo. 

 

Raised in Los Angeles, King earned a bachelor's degree in psychology from UCI in 2005 and then enrolled at The Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y., graduating at the top of her class in 2007. 

 

Read more about her UCI days, cooking and Top Chef Season 12 

 

 

UCI at 50: Don't fence them in


 

It was the winter of 1964, and James McGaugh already had what he considered a dream job. He'd earned a doctorate in psychology at UC Berkeley in 1959, taught for a few years at San Jose State College, done some postdoctoral work in Rome for a year, and then landed at the University of Oregon teaching and researching how the human brain works. "I was treated like a little prince up there," McGaugh says. "They gave me everything I wanted. ... I loved it there."


 

Then the phone rang. McGaugh's dissertation adviser from Berkeley was on the line, telling him about this new campus the University of California was creating on empty pastureland in a place called the Irvine Ranch. He suggested McGaugh put his name in to become the founding chair of an interdisciplinary department to study the brain and behavior.


 

It would be "the very first one in the world. And I was 32 years old," says McGaugh, who followed the advice and was offered the position. "For a 32-year-old kid to get the opportunity to create a department of this kind - and to have full responsibility for that - I mean, that's just mind-boggling. And I took it."


 

 

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