2011 year in review
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Image 1: The female giant anteater born in April to Heesoo and Peter gets some ground time as mom relaxes at the Santa Ana Zoo.
Image 2: Dancers perform "Shaker Life," choreographed by Professor Emeritus Donald McKayle, during the grand opening of the Contemporary Arts Center.
Image 3: Distinguished Professor of logic & philosophy of science Brian Skyrms received the UCI Alumni Association's highest honor, the Extraordinarius award, at the 41st annual Lauds & Laurels ceremony.
Image 4: Rain transforms a bench near the new Contemporary Arts Center into a reflecting pool.
Image 5: During the annual Match Day ceremony, graduating medical student Marco Angulo learns - much to his delight - that he's been accepted into UCI's residency program.
Image 6: An elusive cactus wren perches atop a cactus near University Hills. Development and fires have wiped out much of the bird's habitat, and a restoration effort is under way.
Image 7: Senior Charles Jock, here at Cal State Fullerton's Ben Brown Invitational, went on to run in the 800-meter race at the International Association of Athletics Federations World Track & Field Championships.
Image 8: The Japanese American student group Tomo No Kai made and sold origami cranes as part of a relief effort for earthquake- and tsunami-rocked Japan.
Image 9: A study co-authored by Distinguished Professor of education Greg Duncan showed no correlation between behavioral problems in elementary school and subsequent scholastic achievement, but early math skills played a big role.
Image 10: Business administration major Natalia Gould dances with Ballet Folklorico at the Wayzgoose festival.
Image 11: On Sept. 21, UCI reclaimed the Guinness world record for largest dodgeball game, with 4,488 participants (officially 4,000).
Image 12: Yunxiang Gao, a graduate student in music, plays a self-composed song, "Aria," on a Chinese instrument called a "pipa."
Image 13: Chancellor Michael Drake joins thousands of freshmen at the 2011 New Student Convocation.
Image 14: Oladele Ogunseitan, chair of UCI's Department of Population Health & Disease Prevention, found lead, arsenic and other contaminants in LED bulbs, which are marketed as safe, environmentally preferable alternatives to traditional lights.
Image 15: Renowned evolutionary geneticist Francisco J. Ayala gave $10 million to UCI to support the biological sciences - the largest gift ever by a campus faculty member.
Image 16: Junior Lalita Patipaksiri, here practicing at Irvine's Oak Creek Golf Club, spent the summer touring Asia as the first UCI golfer selected for the NCAA All-Star Golf Team.
Image 17: More than 5,000 people came to the Bren Events Center to hear the Dalai Lama speak on "Compassion & Global Leadership" as part of the Living Peace Series.
Image 18: Peter Bowler, senior lecturer in ecology & evolutionary biology, transfers cacti to UCI's Ecological Preserve as part of a habitat restoration program.
Image 19: Third-year M.F.A. student James Zwerneman was awarded the first UCI Henfield Prize of $10,000 for the best work of fiction by a graduate student.
Image 20: Second-year med student Jeremy Sharib, left, goes up against math major Dominic Tardivel in the "Flex Your Muscles for Global Health" fundraiser for Doctors Without Borders.
Image 21: Soroosh Sorooshian, director of UCI's Center for Hydrometeorology & Remote Sensing, and his colleagues produce online maps and other data to foresee where and when heavy rain will hit. Several countries in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Middle East utilize the center's work to brace for possible floods, mudslides and similar disasters.
Image 22: An October festival celebrated founding faculty member and Claire Trevor Professor of Drama Robert Cohen, and a theater was renamed in his honor.
Image 23: Cheering students - among them Laureen Bousmail, center - turned out Oct. 7 at the Bren Events Center to donate winter clothing to residents of tornado-stricken Joplin, Mo., and enter a raffle for a chance to play 60 seconds of one-on-one with L.A. Lakers guard Kobe Bryant.
Image 24: Jack Brouwer, associate director of the National Fuel Cell Research Center, helped engineer a way to convert waste into heat, electrical power and hydrogen fuel.
Image 25: The Rej3ctz perform Oct. 14 at the Bren Events Center as part of Shocktoberfest 2011. The Midnight Magic hip-hop concert also featured New Boyz and Hoodie Allen.
Image 26: Civil rights activist, author, philosopher, critic and Princeton University professor Cornel West speaks to UCI students in the Cross-Cultural Center as moderator Thomas Parham, vice chancellor for student affairs, looks on.
Image 27: A fresh coat of snow and clean post-rain air make for a startlingly crisp vista from the UCI campus.
Image 28: Barbara Dosher, dean of UCI's School of Social Sciences and professor of cognitive sciences, was elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences.
Image 29: A bounce house in front of the flagpoles provides kinetic fun for students during homecoming week.
Image 30: "Just as sound waves can be redirected, light waves could too," says Gunther Uhlmann, UCI's new Excellence in Teaching Chair in Mathematics, who researches invisibility.
Image 31: The stunning Desert Club near Anza-Borrego Desert State Park will - thanks to a generous gift from Audrey Steele Burnand - become a UCI field research station.
Image 32: A cap carries a special message as 2011 graduates line up outside the Bren Events Center.
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