The Weekly Anteater

Your guide to what’s new and trending at UCI

Dear Friends of UCI,

Welcome to the Weekly Anteater report for what’s new and trending at UCI!

We’ve curated a collection of top news items and trending social topics. If you’re active on social media, please share this news with your friends and colleagues. We’ve attached social links and summaries for easy sharing!

On to this week’s big news…

Anteater Crossing

Take part in #AnteaterCrossing — explore UCI in everyone’s favorite virtual playground, Animal Crossing

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Peter the Anteater and his pal Zots explore UCI Land in Animal Crossing

#FirstGenFriday: Eloy Ortiz Oakley

UC Regent and UCI alum Eloy Ortiz Oakley discusses his first-gen journey, and how he’s working to ensure college access for students across California.

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Eloy Ortiz Oakley in conversation with UCI’s Aaron Orlowski/Video by Steve Chang

#BrilliantFutureUCI: Anniversary

It has officially been 1 year since we publicly launched #BrilliantFutureUCI. Thanks to our generous alumni and friends, we’ve poured millions into world-changing research, boosted alumni involvement & created new scholarships.

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Brian T. Hervey, Vice Chancellor, University Advancement & Alumni Relations thanks alumni and donors

#BrilliantFutureUCI: Joy Mina, ‘14

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How to survive the 2020 election season

Tips for navigating fake news, managing stress and avoiding confrontations

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UCI experts offer advice on how to survive the 2020 election with our friends, family and sanity still intact.

#UCIVote: Michael Diaz

UCI students on the importance of civic engagement

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UCI in the News

The Overlooked Queer History of Medieval Christianity

Roland Betancourt, UCI professor of art history and visual studies writes, “In fact, we can find across the medieval world the potent glimmers of queer community and the role it played in formulating a language for Christian subjects as marginalized and persecuted peoples. Many stories of how queer figures maneuvered across various secular and religious spaces of the medieval world share a jaw-dropping candidness about same-gender intimacies and sexuality, and can provide important evidence about how medieval writers thought about the intersections of gender and sexual desire.”

Why Our Sense of Time is Distorted During the Pandemic

Dr. E. Alison Holman, PhD, FNP, UCI professor of nursing at the Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing and Department of Psychological Science, discusses the implications of distorted time perception for our collective health. … Her team started a prospective longitudinal study addressing responses to the COVID-19 pandemic among a national sample of Americans in March 2020.

Students return to classes at UCI, but campus is virtually empty

Thousands of students started classes at UC Irvine this week, but the campus was nearly empty. Student housing is at 43% capacity, or about 6,600 students, and most classes are being conducted online because of coronavirus restrictions. The fall quarter will be almost entirely online with just a few undergraduate classes in-person, said UCI spokeswoman Sheri Ledbetter. Freshman Jenifer Peiris said … she felt lucky to be in the dorms. “Being here and being able to study, that’s my real goal,” she said, adding that she felt safer at school than being at home with family.

Thank you for reading! Questions? Please contact the social media team at UCI: ucisocialmedia@uci.edu