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UC Irvine’s Gavin Herbert Eye Institute opens in September.

UCI again ranks fi rst among U.S. universities younger than 50

It’s the second time the campus has taken top U.S. honors in this category, and as the 50th anniversary of the university draws near, UCI focuses on soaring even higher as one of the world’s premier public institutions of higher education.

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UC Irvine shines a light on advanced eye health centerUC Irvine Health’s Gavin Herbert Eye Institute, funded by community philanthropy, opens doors to new hub for preservation of sight

When the Gavin Herbert Eye Institute opens its new 70,000-square-foot home on the UC Irvine campus in September, the community will gain access to a cutting-edge center for preservation of sight, with services ranging from eyeglass fi ttings to refractive surgeries to clinical trials of new therapies and more. The comprehensive eye health institute includes 34 patient exam rooms with the latest in optical equipment, the fi rst campus outpatient surgery center, an optical shop, faculty offi ces, a dedicated pediatric space and conference space. The interior design refl ects recommendations from the Braille Institute that make it easier for low-vision patients to navigate around the building.

Pioneering Physicians Ten Gavin Herbert Eye Institute physicians grace the list of Best Doctors in America® assembled by Best Doctors Inc., including the institute’s founding director, Dr. Roger Steinert, who is an internationally recognized authority on cataract, cornea and refractive surgery. He also chairs the UC Irvine Health School of Medicine Department of Ophthalmology and holds joint appointments as the Irving H. Leopold Professor of Ophthalmology and professor of biomedical engineering.

Gavin Herbert Eye Institute physicians are known for pioneering medical procedures using femto-second lasers for refractive and corneal transplant surgery and employing next-generation medical therapies for age-related macular degeneration. Research teams are investigating such advanced treatments as stem cell therapies to preserve and restore sight for individuals with retinitis pigmen-tosa and macular degeneration; infused contact lenses that replace eye drops to treat cystinosis; and a vaccine for ocular herpes, a leading cause of blindness.

Funded Through Private Support The $39 million building is the fi rst on the UC Irvine campus to be funded entirely through local corporate, foundation and individual philanthropic gifts; no government funding was required.

James (Jim) V. Mazzo, executive chairman of AcuFocus and UC Irvine Foundation trustee, led the very successful community campaign. The initial naming gift came from Gavin Herbert, founder and chairman emeritus of Allergan Inc., wife Ninetta, and his mother, Josephine Herbert Gleis, in 2007.

Other major donors were Abbott Medical Optics Inc., Alcon Foundation, Allergan Foundation, Julia and George Argyros, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, Bausch and Lomb, Esther and James Cavanaugh, Discovery Eye Foundation, Kratz Foundation, Marsha and Bill Link, and Kelly and Jim Mazzo.

Discovery Eye Foundation makes $3 million gift to Gavin Herbert Eye InstituteAward supports completion of campus home for UC Irvine Health facility and novel collaboration to advance breakthrough vision research

Discovery Eye Foundation, a Los Angeles-based organization that supports research, education, advocacy and treatment of sight-threatening eye diseases, has awarded $3 million to UC Irvine’s Gavin Herbert Eye Institute. The gift provides $2 million to complete the eye center’s campus home, which opens in September, and $1 million to establish the Discovery Center for Eye Research as a unit within the institute.

“The goal of the building donation was to establish a home for this world-class eye institute, to be the place where ongoing research funded by the Discovery Eye Foundation will be translated into sight-saving treatments,” said Discovery Eye Foundation board chairman Jack Schoellerman.

Partners in Progress The Discovery Center for Eye Research is a novel collaboration between a private foundation, the Discovery Eye Foundation, and the university medical center-based Gavin Herbert Eye Institute. Schoellerman will serve as chair of the entity, helping to defi ne the role it will assume in sustaining ongoing investigations and kick-starting promising new research. The center also plans to launch ophthalmology confer-ences, where research fi ndings can be shared and new ideas stimulated.

“The Discovery Eye Foundation has funded the progress of many Gavin Herbert Eye Institute patient-oriented research programs, from a potential cure for ocular herpes to a proposed stem cell treatment for age-related macular degeneration,” said Dr. Roger Steinert, founding director of the Gavin Herbert Eye Institute. “We are grateful to the foundation for its generous investment in the future of eye health and look forward to exploring what we can accomplish together through the Discovery Center for Eye Research.”

A Resource for Patients In addition to supporting novel research, the Discovery Eye Foundation provides support and resources to patients. Additionally, the organization serves as a parent foundation for both the National Keratoconus Foundation and the Macular Degeneration Partnership, helping to run websites with forums and resources for patients and their family members.

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Akintunde Udo has been coming to UC Irvine’s Center for Autism & Neurodevelopmental Disorders since he was 3. His mother, Uduak, says her sessions with nurse practitioner Teri Book help them both deal with autism.

Speaking their languageCenter works to make life better for families dealing with autism

At fi rst glance, it’s an ordinary scene from many a childhood: A boy plays with a toy boat, loading and unloading small plastic balls. Yet there are subtle clues that something’s not right.

Akintunde Udo, 6, is so intent on his game that he ignores everyone else in the room, making no eye contact and seemingly oblivious to the conversation between his mother, Uduak Udo, and Teri Book, a nurse practitioner at the Center for Autism & Neurodevelopmental Disorders, which operates under the leadership of UC Irvine Health School of Medicine.

It’s as though Akintunde is separated by an invisible wall, and that wall is autism.

Warning signs “Some people don’t think he has autism because he’s really intelligent and extremely well-behaved,” Book says. “But in the past few minutes, he’s shown several of the signs. If he were a typical boy, he’d be looking at you or me, because we’re socialized to look at people talking around us. He didn’t respond to a direct question. And he’s doing something over and over.”

Udo has come from her Huntington Beach home to the Center for Autism, in Orange, to better understand the disorder and learn how to cope with her child’s symptoms. For more than 10

years, the clinic – formerly called For OC Kids – has offered medical evaluations, diagnostic testing and the kind of education and social support that have become Udo’s lifeline.

Now the center is growing in size and services, thanks to $14.8 million in funding from the William & Nancy Thompson Family Foundation and the Children & Families Commission of Orange County. It’s transitioning into a nationally recognized evaluation, treatment and research facility that helps those with autism, ADHD, Down syndrome and other neurodevelopmental disorders.

“We’ve always hoped to do more, but until the Thompson gift and commission’s matching investment, we’ve been limited by funding,” says Dr. Joseph Donnelly, a pediatric neurologist who directs the center. “It’s our opportunity to transform from a clinic to a center that cares for the whole child.”

Expansion plans The center will move to a larger (still undetermined) location this fall. Services such as behavioral intervention, psychological testing and counseling, speech/language therapy and occupational therapy will be added for children, adolescents and young adults through age 22, he says. Previously, the cutoff was 6 – Akintunde’s age.

“This allows us to follow patients over time and make sure they’re making progress,” Donnelly says.

Autism’s toll About one in 88 children in the U.S. has been identifi ed as having an autism spectrum disorder, which can cause a wide range of social, commu-nication and behavioral problems.

“Patients’ skills can vary from high-functioning to profoundly impaired and everything in between,” Donnelly says.

To better assist clients, the center’s staff is tripling in size. In addition to nurse practitioners, social workers, developmental pediatricians and neurologists, there will be specialists in behavioral intervention, psychology, psychiatry, speech/language pathology, occupational therapy and even nutrition. (The center also partners with UC Irvine’s Center for Autism Research & Treatment to develop new drug therapies.)

“We’re laying out a plan to use [the Thompson] investment most effectively,” Donnelly says.

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UCI chemists devise inexpensive, accurate way to detect prostate cancerMethod could facilitate commercially available, at-home urine tests

Early screening for prostate cancer could become as easy for men as personal pregnancy testing is for women, thanks to UC Irvine research published today in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

After more than a decade of work, UC Irvine chemists have created a way to clearly identify clinically usable markers for prostate cancer in urine, meaning that the disease could be detected far sooner, with greater accuracy and at dramati-cally lower cost. The same technology could potentially be used for bladder and multiple myeloma cancers, which also shed identifi able markers in urine.

“Our goal is a device the size of a home pregnancy test priced around $10. You would buy it at the drugstore or the grocery store and test yourself,” said the study’s corresponding author, Reginald Penner, UC Irvine Chancellor’s Professor of chemistry. “We’re on the verge of a very important breakthrough in a new era of personal health management.”

Inexpensive and accurate About 240,000 men in the U.S. are diagnosed with prostate cancer each year, and 29,000 are expected to die of it in 2013. But current, widely

utilized testing does not always catch the disease in its early stages, often yields false positives and can lead to unnecessary, risky treatments.

A recent report concluded that the prostate-specifi c antigen, or PSA, test can be more harmful than benefi cial, although it remains important for detecting recurring prostate cancer. The UC Irvine researchers used a different biomarker, PSMA, and plan to test others to pinpoint if a cancer is growing aggressively or not.

“A big problem is that the approach used now does not catch cancer soon enough,” said co-author Gregory Weiss, a UC Irvine biochemist. “We want this to be a disruptive technology that

will change how we save lives and that will bring down healthcare costs drastically.”

The researchers used a combination of readily available chemicals and unique electronic sensors to create the screening process.

A novel approach Salt in urine helps conduct electricity but also makes it challenging for typical biosensors to differentiate the “signals” of cancer molecules from “noise” around them in the electrodes. The UC Irvine team developed a new type of sensor: They added nanoscale protein receptors to tiny, pencil-like viruses called phages that live only within bacteria. Double wrapping the phages with additional receptors greatly increases the capture and transmission of cancer molecule signals.

The next step is human clinical trials, which the researchers hope can be conducted fairly quickly since the testing will be noninvasive. The method has been patented and licensed, and a commer-cial partner has been identifi ed.

Ultimately, the scientists aim to capitalize on related nanowire research to design invisible fi laments that could carry cancer signals to a smartphone or other electrical device. Software would notify users whether they’re in the safe range or should contact a physician.

Other prostate cancer tests coming to market cost up to $4,000 each. The UC Irvine team made price a key design factor of their work.

– Janet Wilson, UC Irvine Offi ce of Strategic Communications

Study co-author Gregory Weiss is a UC Irvine biochemist. UC Irvine graduate students Keith Donavan and Jessica Arter are also study authors.

Reginald Penner is a UC Irvine Chancellor’s Professor of chemistry and the study’s corresponding author.



oes an increase in the minimumwage reduce poverty? Whatpolicy for gun control will besupported by both gun rights andregulation advocates? How does

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Shaping LeadersThe United States continues to confront achanging global economy, find its economicfooting, and grapple with an array of societalissues that call for informed and effectivepolicy responses. Now, more than ever, weneed skilled and talented professionalscapable of participating in the full range ofpolicy activities to find solutions to society’smost pressing problems.

The Master of Public Policy programprovides training for highly motivated andtalented individuals to become leaders at thelocal, state, national and international level inthe development and management ofpolicies that lead to a more effective publicsector, a more productive private sector andmore vibrant communities.

UC Irvine Master of Public PolicySince welcoming its inaugural class in fall2011, the two-year professional degreeprogram continues to bring together theexpertise of faculty across multipledisciplines, including economics, criminology,political science, sociology, urban planning,psychology and anthropology. Administeredby both the School of Social Ecology andSchool of Social Sciences, the program’sinterdisciplinary approach provides a meansfor creative exchange among research-oriented faculty, public policydecision-makers, strategically locatedpractitioners and students.

As a member of the UC Irvine Master ofPublic Policy program, you will be part of anew and rapidly growing program that isuniquely situated to address a myriad ofpolicy challenges. How we confront thesechallenges will shape our local, state,national and international communities.

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UCI again ranks fi rst among U.S. universities younger than 50Times Higher Education evaluations are based on research and teaching excellence

UC Irvine ranked fi rst among U.S. universities under 50 years old – and fi fth worldwide – in a report by Times Higher Education. It’s the second consecutive year that the campus has ranked in the top fi ve. UC Irvine will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2015 and is the youngest institution in the prestigious Association of American Universities.

“As we near our 50th anniversary, this recognition shows that we’ve fulfi lled the vision articulated by our founding chancellor, Daniel G. Aldrich Jr., when he dedicated the campus,” said current Chancellor Michael V. Drake. “He vowed UC Irvine would become a world-class university. Our dedication to excellence in academics, research, and campus character and leadership has enabled UC Irvine to reach that goal. Now we’re focused on soaring even higher as one of the world’s premier public institutions of higher education.”

Performance benchmarks used in the ranking included research and the teaching environment. Special attention was paid to international collaboration, citations of campus research by other scientists and the degree to which research has spawned technical innovation.

“The Times Higher Education ‘100 Under 50’ rankings highlight institutions like UC Irvine that have become one of the world’s fi nest in a matter of years, while many of their competitors have had centuries of development, as well as those that are showing great potential for future success,” said Phil Baty, rankings editor.

“The universities ranked are subjected to the same trusted and tough global standards estab-lished by the overall Times Higher Education world university rankings, using 13 separate performance indicators covering the whole range

of a university’s mission (teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook) but carefully recalibrated to better suit the profi le of younger institutions. So this new ranking is a list of some truly exciting and dynamic institutions, and UC Irvine makes the top 10 and takes fi rst place in the U.S.”

One trend evident in this and other world university rankings is the emergence of universities as global collaborators in health and technology research. UC Irvine recently has embarked on a number of collaborative research efforts in Israel, with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv University and the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.

Just this year, Drake also forged agreements with institutions in South Korea: Ewha Womans University, the largest women’s college in the world; Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, consistently ranked as one of the most presti-gious institutions of higher education in that nation; and KAIST, the country’s fi rst research-oriented science and engineering university.

“We look forward to continuing our relationships with these institutions, just as we have with many others around the world, including in Norway, Poland and China,” Drake said.

UC Irvine scored in the 90th percentile in research citations. This indicator examines a university’s research infl uence by capturing the number of times its published works are cited by scholars across the globe. The data are drawn from the 12,000 academic journals indexed by Thomson Reuters’ Web of Science database and include all indexed journals published between 2005 and 2009.

“Maintaining the privacy of your DNA is crucial,” said Gene Tsudik, UC Irvine professor of computer science who helped create the GenoDroid app. “You cannot change your DNA once it’s leaked.”

RESEARCH DISCOVERIES

Lighter than a feather: UC Irvine mechanical & aerospace engineer Lorenzo Valdevit and fellow researchers at HRL Labs and the California Institute of Technology received Popular Mechanics’ 2012 Breakthrough Award for creating the world’s lightest metal.

3-D printer: Last September, engineering faculty offered a sneak peek at their innovative three-dimensional manufacturing efforts at the campus’s National Center for Rapid Technologies, or RapidTech, the only nonprofi t in the U.S. dedicated to the hands-on training of community college and university students for the next wave of advanced manufacturing.

Drying out: Using satellite data, UC Irvine scientists and colleagues found that the Middle East river basin is losing critical water reserves at an alarming rate. Between 2003 and 2010, four nations along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers – Turkey, Syria, Iran and Iraq – lost the equivalent of all the water in the Dead Sea due to pumping from underground reservoirs.

New for your smartphone: Computer science professor Gene Tsudik and colleagues created an app that could allow an individual to securely store and utilize his or her own DNA on a smartphone. GenoDroid could potentially be used for paternity and common-ancestry tests, customized cancer-fi ghting drugs and more.

Zeroing in on cancer: UC Irvine biologists, chemists and computer scientists identifi ed an elusive pocket on the surface of the p53 protein that can be targeted by anticancer drugs. The fi nding holds promise of a new treatment approach, as mutant forms of this protein are implicated in nearly 40 percent of diagnosed cases of cancer.

Shedding light on epilepsy: Ivan Soltesz, Chancellor’s Professor and chair of anatomy & neurobiology, and other UC Irvine neuroscien-tists developed a way to stop epileptic seizures with fi ber-optic light signals, heralding a novel opportunity to treat the most severe manifesta-tions of the brain disorder.




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From physics to fi nanceIn new book, professor explores scientists’ role on Wall Street

When U.S. markets crashed in 2008, James Weatherall was completing his doctorate in math-ematics and physics less than fi ve miles from Wall Street. A fi nancially strapped grad student, he didn’t have a monetary inter-est at stake but was keenly interested in how it all went down.

“Derivatives, these complicated fi nancial products that require the use of mathematical models to understand, seemed to be at the heart of the collapse,” says Weatherall, now an assistant professor of logic & philosophy of science at UC Irvine.

Finger-pointing put the mathematicians and physicists behind these models in the spotlight as fi nanciers and others called into question scientists’ place in the fi nancial world. With Harvard physics and philosophy degrees under his belt and his fi rst doctoral degree in sight, Weatherall couldn’t stay out of the fray.

“The only way you can pull down the national economy is if you work for one of these multibil-lion-dollar hedge funds,” he says. “If, as critics claimed, physicists couldn’t possibly know what they were doing in fi nance, if it was so obvious, how did they get their jobs in the fi rst place?”

Over the next four years, the notion of how ideas and practices move from physics to fi nance was never far from Weatherall’s mind. He earned an M.F.A. in creative writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University and his second doctorate, this one in logic & philosophy of science at UC Irvine, and somehow found time to write a book on the topic.

The Physics of Wall Street, which hit shelves in January, explores 100 years of the most creative, clever and unlikely players in the fi nancial world – those who, according to Weatherall, “just had a swashbuckling instinct to do cool new things with the tools they were trained to use.

One such entrepreneur is fellow Anteater Edward Thorp. One of UC Irvine’s early mathematics professors, he applied his expertise in statistics and probability theory to card counting, earning himself a small fortune and inaugural membership

How does California measure up?New UCI-developed database provides 20-year comparison of states’ economic performance

California’s economic output has grown at an average pace over the past 20 years, but the state has experienced slower overall job growth and higher poverty rates than most others, according to a new study by UC Irvine economists.

These fi ndings and additional economic compari-sons are available in a free interactive database at Compare50.org. The project points to key areas in which the Golden State’s economic perfor-mance comes up short, says report co-author David Neumark.

“Debate about appropriate economic policies has to be based, fi rst and foremost, on a solid foundation about the comparative economic performance of the state,” says the UC Irvine Chancellor’s Professor of economics and Center for Economics & Public Policy director. “The Compare50 database provides policymakers, journalists and others an easy-to-use tool.”

Supported by the nonprofi t Next 10 foundation, Neumark and economics graduate student

Jennifer Muz compiled data on fundamental economic measures – including economic growth, job growth, layoffs and unemploy-ment, earnings, income distribution and poverty – from 1990 to 2011 for all 50 states. Sources included the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Quarterly Census of Employment & Wages and Current Population Survey.

“It’s important to look at California’s status in comparison to other states, rather than in a vacuum, to get an idea of what’s happened and where we should focus policy efforts,” Neumark says.

Center for Economics & Public PolicyEstablished in 2011, the Center for Economics & Public Policy seeks to improve analysis, formulation and debate on economics-related public policy issues at the international, national, state and local levels.

Directed by Chancellor’s Professor David Neumark, the center brings economics-related public policy research to policymakers, the public and the UCI community.

Based in the Department of Economics, CEPP brings together the talents and contributions of economists and scholars in sociology, social ecology, business, education, law and engineering who engage in economics-related public policy research.

To create lasting impact, CEPP:

• Holds policy-related seminars for faculty and graduate students and increases UCI’s interaction with the policy community.

• Increases student and faculty involvement in the Master of Public Policy program.

• Disseminates policy-related research of center faculty to the media and the policy community through targeted studies, its website and its network of policymakers.

• Organizes universitywide events discussing current policy issues, involving center faculty and high-profi le public fi gures.

The center also provides support for policy-oriented faculty and graduate student research.

Learn more at economicsandpublicpolicy.uci.edu.

About the School of Social Sciences:The School of Social Sciences at UC Irvine has achieved national prominence and top rankings for its outside-the-box methodological and theoretical advances. The school maintains a tradition of excellence in building robust measures, innovative models and powerful methodologies for understanding the human condition in a diverse and digital age. Multi-disciplinary in scope and open to unexpected explorations—from cognitive robotics to social computing, from behavioral economics to the physics of fi nancial models—research in the social sciences at UC Irvine encompasses all of humanity’s increasing diversity and makes a difference in our everyday lives. Learn how at www.socsci.uci.edu.

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Peace building at The Merage SchoolIt’s one thing to lead a global negotiation from a conference room or on a video chat. But try moving your team to a deserted street corner in a war-torn country. Put yourself face to face with a machete-wielding tribal chieftain and hordes of hostile, AK-47-toting villagers. Add to that an aggressive foreign press corps watching your every move. Think you’d remember everything you learned in business school?

Recently a detachment of U.S. Marines, the Camp Pendleton-based First Civil Affairs Group, not only recalled the cross-cultural approach to global negotiations they’d learned at The Paul Merage School of Business, they managed to integrate it into their own training to successfully negotiate a peaceful solution to a no-win situation.

Granted, it was a simulation. The exercise, created by the Marine Corps, was designed to provide training for the CAG, who are deployed in nation-building missions around the world. Employing villagers from a country in the Horn of Africa, it provided “atmospherics” to mimic scenarios Marines can expect to encounter when deployed in post-confl ict areas as they help to establish democracy.

This particular exercise was supposed to have a peaceful outcome, but it had been deliberately scripted as a no-win for the Marine captain and her team, says Professor William Hernández Requejo, who along with Professor Emeritus John Graham and Valerie Nellen, executive director of executive education at The Merage School, had been invited to witness the simulation at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton recently.

“The entire exercise was meant to teach precisely what she managed to excel at, namely, observe the situation, determine what was going on, attempt to establish the decision-making network and bring her team back safely,” Hernández Requejo says.

Weeks earlier, Graham and Hernández Requejo had led a three-day session on global negotia-tions for the CAG at The Merage School. “We gave them alternatives to military power,” says Hernández Requejo. “To use their vernacular, we showed them how negotiation can be one more weapons system.”

The session was the brainchild of Captain Amaury Gallais, the UC Berkeley-trained executive offi cer of the CAG, who recognized that the Marines required a unique kind of training for nation-building missions. He approached the Offi ce of Executive Education at The Merage School seeking the global negotiation insight for which the school is known.

Nellen and her team developed a customized program specifi cally for the CAG, assembling a global negotiations and communications “dream team” led by professors Graham and Hernández Requejo. Co-authors of Global Negotiation: the New Rules and dozens of other books and articles, Graham and Hernández Requejo led a three-day session highlighting the role of culture as a problem-solving tool in global negotiations. CAG personnel, including active-duty and reserve offi cers, worked in small teams to apply the executive negotiation training and received feedback from the faculty members and Marine Corps offi cers before heading back to Pendleton for the live simulation.

For all the planning that went into the customized program, it almost didn’t happen when the government sequester earlier this spring cut training funding for the peace-building program.

Graham and Hernández Requejo stepped in, offering to lead the session pro bono. “It’s always been our hope that these sessions can help our armed forces view negotiation as a dispute resolution mechanism,” says Hernández Requejo. Graham, who serves on the board of UC Irvine’s Center for Citizen Peacebuilding, is equally committed to teaching Marines creative negotia-tion skills. “Commerce,” he says simply, “creates peace.”

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Marines of the First Civil Affairs Group discuss how culture can be a problem-solving resource. The executive education session at UC Irvine’s Paul Merage School of Business was custom designed for this peace-building unit of the U.S. Marines.

Professors John Graham (pictured) and William Hernández Requejo teach a session on cross-cultural negotia-tions for the First Civil Affairs Group of the U.S. Marines at UC Irvine’s Paul Merage School of Business.



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Eight of the region’s premier homebuildersare working to bring Pavilion Park to lifewith 10 new home collections, ranging fromthe $700,000s to more than $1.5 million.Interested homebuyers can view thecollections, elevation styles and pricing,and join the registry atwww.greatparkneighborhoods.com.The builders, including K. HovnanianHomes, Lennar, Pulte Homes, RichmondAmerican Homes, Ryland Homes, SheaHomes, Taylor Morrison and William LyonHomes, are bringing architectural styles asdiverse and beautiful and multi-generational as the people who will oneday call Pavilion Park home.Pavilion Park will ease residents intohealthier and more relaxed lifestyles. Withheritage trees shading graceful meanderingstreets, residents also will enjoy thebeautiful six-acre park that gives thisneighborhood its name. The park will bethe heart of social life and offer residents aprivate swimming pool and spa,neighborhood tot lot, sports court and eventlawn. Life will be different here. You’ll see.FivePoint Communities Management Inc. isthe development manager of Great ParkNeighborhoods, the only master plannedcommunity adjacent to Orange CountyGreat Park. This community is in the City ofIrvine, which is recognized as one ofAmerica’s safest cities and home to theaward-winning Irvine Unified SchoolDistrict. The neighborhoods will have avariety of residential choices and aninnovative blend of “main street” retail,office and educational uses. Great ParkNeighborhoods will link public hiking andbiking trails to the Cleveland NationalForest, the Orange Count Great Park andthe Irvine Transit Center.

Construction is under way on 31 model homes at Pavilion Park – scheduled to open lateSeptember.


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ith its nearly perfect weather; easy access to beaches, mountains anddeserts; close proximity to world-renowned attractions such as Disneylandand Newport Beach; great school system; and low crime rates, it is no wonderIrvine, Calif. was ranked as the fifth best city in the U.S. by Businessweek in2011. Irvine provides an opportunity to attract talented employees. It’s a

hotbed of technically savvy people with top-notch companies calling Irvine home.Sage North America is one of these companies. Sage is a leading global supplier ofbusiness management software and services for small and mid-sized businesses. TheSage Group plc is the parent company of Sage North America and is located in the UnitedKingdom. With more than 6 million customers and more than 13,380 employees, Sage hasoffices in 23 countries worldwide.

The Sage VisionSage began its North America business in 1998 with the acquisition of State-of-the-ArtSoftware, an Irvine-area company since 1984. Sage North America now operates in 10campuses across the United States and Canada, including its Irvine headquarters,which employs more than 350 people.Sage products cover a wide range of business requirements, including accounting,customer relationship management, contact management, human resources, warehousemanagement and specialized products for the construction industry. Regardless of thesolution, customer success is the top priority.“At Sage, our vision is to be recognized as the most valuable supporter of small andmedium sized companies by creating freedom for them to succeed,” said PascalHouillon, president and CEO of Sage North America. “Our range of business softwareand services is continually evolving as we innovate to answer our customers’ needs.”

Sage CaresSage is also deeply committed to serving its community. Sage Cares is its corporateresponsibility program that encompasses its activities in giving, commitments tosustainability, and focus on helping to build entrepreneurship and small business acumen.Sage employees are encouraged to participate in charitable activities throughout the yearand are offered a charity volunteer day benefit in which they receive one paid day off toserve with any nonprofit organization.Employees are active in the Irvine community, volunteering at local nonprofits,participating in American Red Cross blood drives, organizing drives for local food banksand shelters, and donating to special holiday programs that benefit multiple organizationsin the area.

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The Sage Listens RV RelaySage executives are currently on a 16-city, 50-day RV trip across the country. The SageListens RV Relay is a literal and figurative vehicle for Sage executives to personally visitcustomers across the U.S., to build stronger relationships with those customers, to helpthem maximize their software investments, and to encourage a commitment to shoppingwith and supporting local businesses in communities nationwide. With this tour, Sage isalso kicking off a nationwide “Shop Local” campaign, through which it is encouragingconsumers and businesses to support businesses locally based in their communities.The RV’s progress and customer stories are shared at SageLovesOurCustomers.com.The Sage Listens RV Relay will conclude on August 28 at Sage headquarters in Irvine.

Sage and UC IrvineSage also has a strong relationship with the University of California, Irvine. Houillon sitson UC Irvine’s Chief Executive Roundtable which fosters a dynamic partnershipbetween the university and the community. This alliance of business and university

leaders strengthens and supports the development ofUC Irvine and the business community in an effort todrive the next wave of local business innovation.Chief Technology Officer and Head of Product StrategyHimanshu Palsule sits on the Dean’s Leadership Councilat UCI’s Donald Bren School of Information andComputer Sciences. Council members serve as anadvisory group to the dean of the Bren School of ICSand help advance research, teaching and public servicegoals by strengthening the school’s ties to industry andthe community.Sage is also part of the Paul Merage School of BusinessCorporate Partners Program which creates mutuallybeneficial partnerships between the corporatecommunity and the business school by providing value-

added programs such as the Distinguished Speaker Series and Executive MentoringProgram.Its strong partnerships, industry-leading solutions, and wide global reach put Sage in aunique position to have a positive impact on the world of industry and commerce.Starting right here in Irvine.

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in the Blackjack Hall of Fame. Afterbesting casinos in Reno, Tahoe andVegas, Thorp put his models to work onWall Street, creating the quantitativehedge fund.

The mathematician-turned-card shark-turned hedge fund manager is one ofseveral examples Weatherall cites as heexplains how practices that weren’tnatural fi ts in the financial domain havebecome critical – and extraordinarilysuccessful – components in moneymanaging and investing.

“Mathematicians and physicists attack adiffi cult problem by simplifying

assumptionsand tryingto get somesolution,even if it’snot final,”he says.

The kinds ofmodelsproducedare perfectlylegitimateand useful,Weatherall

says, but trouble can arise when they’retaken out of the hands of expertstrained to understand their inherentrisks.

“Models are approximations, andthey’re based on assumptions thatdon’t always hold. But it can be veryeasy for people not used to buildingmodels to look at these equations andbelieve they tell you the whole truthabout markets,” he says. “They needto be used cautiously; otherwise, theytend to engender overconfidence.”

Weatherall argues that more time andresources need to be devoted tostudying these unorthodoxapplications of math and physics innew realms – and that as such modelsare adopted more widely, the scientistsneeded to run them can’t be left out ofthe mix.

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Job growth, for example, lags relativeto other states, which is worrisome forreducing unemployment in the longterm, he says.

Gross state product, or income, was abright spot. California’s per capita realgrowth was slightly higher than the U.S.as a whole and appears to be on therise.

“The fact that economic growth isoutstripping job growth suggests thatthe state is successfully adding high-wage jobs, while opportunities for



























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low-skilled workers may be declining,”Neumark notes.

“We hope our data will be used togenerate new hypotheses orexplanations regarding state economicperformance and identify problemareas policymakers may want toaddress, as well as those areas wheregood economic performance suggeststhat policy changes are not needed,”he says.

The full report and interactive onlinedatabase are available athttp://compare50.org/.

– Heather Ashbach,UCI Social Sciences Communications

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UC Irvine School of Law at fi ve years

It’s diffi cult to believe we are about to embark on our fi fth year of classes at the UC Irvine School of Law. What started as a dream is now a reality as we continue to build on our

efforts to realize our mission. While we have achieved much, we still have many challenges ahead.

UCI Law seeks to do the best job in the country of training lawyers for the practice of law at the highest levels of the profession. The school’s innovative curriculum stresses hands-on learning, interdisciplinary study and public service. By every measure, we are succeeding in creating a top law school, with a faculty ranked among the best in the nation and impressive numbers of graduates passing the bar, gaining prestigious judicial clerk-ships and landing jobs in every area of legal practice.

Our faculty, which has been recruited from the best law schools, has grown to 38 and will eventually reach 55. A study by a University of St. Thomas law professor and his colleagues ranked our faculty seventh in the nation in scholarly impact, measured by citations in journals. Our student body will grow from its current size of slightly more than 300 to about 600. Providing generous scholarships to these students from the very beginning has greatly helped us recruit talented individuals.

This month, we welcomed our fi fth class of students. Over the years, we have steadily increased our class size while maintaining the overall quality of students—comparable to students at top 20 law schools.

On May 11, we celebrated our second com-mencement with the graduation of the Class of 2013. An audience of nearly 1,000 people heard inspirational words from California Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye, Chancellor Michael Drake and graduating student David Pierucci. The 85 men and women who participated in commence-ment unquestionably have been partners in creating the law school. They spent countless hours in numerous student organizations, the Moot Court program, the Law Review, the student government and so much more.

They did an enormous amount of pro bono work. Ninety-one percent of the students did pro bono during their three years in law school. Seventeen students in the Class of 2013 wore gold cords at commencement for logging at least 120 hours of pro bono work, and another 17 wore gold sashes for performing 200 or more hours. Each student has participated in one of our legal clinics and received the invaluable training that provides.

As we celebrated the Class of 2013, we also continued to be dazzled by the successes of the Class of 2012. In November 2012, we learned

that our fi rst graduates had the second-highest pass rate on the July state bar exam of any California law school, behind only Stanford, and in May, we learned that all but one of the students who took the February bar passed. In fact, we now have had a number of students take bar exams in other states – Alaska, Pennsylvania, Texas and a few in New York – and all have passed.

In April, we were able to announce that every student in the Class of 2012 had full-time legal employment, with two students enrolled in full-time graduate programs. UCI Law was 11th in the country in students employed nine months after graduation, in the top 20 of law schools placing students in the largest 250 law fi rms, and second, behind Yale, in placing our students in federal judicial clerkships.

We had a wide array of terrifi c lectures in the past year, including the fourth annual Mark P. Robinson Jr. Lecture, delivered by Harvard law professor David Wilkins, the third annual Al Meyerhoff Public Interest Lecture, delivered by civil rights attorney and NYU law professor Bryan Stevenson, and the second annual Raymond Pryke First Amendment Lecture, delivered by Kelli Sager, a preeminent attorney who specializes in litigation on behalf of the press.

The Center for Land, Environment and Natural Resources sponsored prominent speakers such as attorney Kenneth Feinberg. The Center on Law, Equality and Race sponsored a talk by UCLA law professor Devon Carbado. The John S. and Marilyn Long U.S.-China Institute for Business and Law sponsored a lecture series that included some of the most prominent global experts on China and its legal system. UC Irvine professors Henry Weinstein and Ezra Ross coordinated a speaker series for students that had terrifi c speakers literally every week. And there were a number of great symposia, concluding with a student-organized symposium on law and economics.

On April 26, we had the fi rst annual Public Service Awards dinner and honored the federal district court judges of Orange County: Cormac Carney, David Carter, Andrew Guilford, James Selna, Alicemarie Stotler and Josephine Staton Tucker.

Now we look ahead to a tremendously exciting 2013-14 school year. In 2014, the law school will be considered for full accreditation by the American Bar Association. On Jan. 27, 2014, we will have our fourth annual Moot Court fi nals, to be judged by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Sixth Circuit Judge Martha Daughtrey and Ninth Circuit Judge William Fletcher. We will once more have many terrifi c speakers and symposia throughout the year.

On April 18, 2014, attorney and author Scott Turow will deliver the fi fth annual Mark P. Robinson Jr. Lecture. Also in the spring, Harvard law professor Kenneth Mack will deliver the fourth annual Al Meyerhoff Public Interest Lecture, and Stanford law professor Pam Karlan will deliver the third annual Raymond Pryke First Amendment Lecture.

Each year, it becomes clearer that we are suc-ceeding in our goal of being one of the top law schools in the country. Each year, too, we face new challenges. We now need to embark on a major campaign to raise funds for a new law school building, with the goal of having it com-pleted by 2018. And we must continue to raise scholarship funds to ensure that we continue to recruit the best and the brightest to UCI Law.

We begin our fi fth year of classes with enormous optimism for our future.

– Dean Erwin Chemerinsky

Erwin Chemerinsky, dean and Distinguished Professor of law, and Raymond Pryke Professor of First Amendment Law, at UC Irvine School of Law, is one of the nation’s top experts in constitutional law, federal practice, civil rights and civil liberties, and appellate litigation. He is the author of seven books, the latest being The Conservative Assault on the Constitution (Simon & Schuster, 2010). His casebook, Constitutional Law, is one of the most widely read law textbooks in the country. Chemerinsky has also written nearly 200 law review articles in journals such as the Harvard Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Northwestern Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Stanford Law Review and Yale Law Journal. He frequently argues appellate cases, including matters before the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. courts of appeals, and regularly serves as a commentator on legal issues for national and local media. He holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.S. from Northwestern University.



The UCI Medal Awards recognizes extraordinary individuals for helping UC Irvine turn ideas into impact while raising vital funds to support the Chancellor’s Fund for Scholarships and Fellowships. Hosted by the University of California, Irvine Foundation, the UCI Medal Awards, held at the UC Irvine Bren Events Center, is one of Orange County’s premier events and includes a reception, dinner, tributes and entertainment.

Reserve tables now while excellent seats are still available. Contact Mitchell Spann at 949-824-1655 or [email protected].

Please visit www.UCIFuture.com/medal for more information.

CHARLES D. MARTINCHARLES D. MARTIN

With a distinguished career in investment strategy and venture capital, he is a UC Irvine Foundation trustee who launched a pioneering investment program for MBA students. To date, he has awarded 100 scholarships.

NGNG ˜UGUG ˜I WA THIONG’OI WA THIONG’O

UC Irvine Distinguished Professor of comparative literature and English, Ngugi wa Thiong’o is an interna-tionally acclaimed author whose name tops many crit-ics’ lists of those deserving a Nobel Prize in literature.

CHERYLL ANDCHERYLL AND RICHARD RUSZATRICHARD RUSZAT

As UC Irvine Foundation trustees and former Chancellor’s Club co-presidents, they have left an indelible mark on UC Irvine while being an integral part of the $1 billion Shaping the Future campaign’s ongoing success.

Foundation

With special thanks to the following sponsors:• Abbott Medical Optics Inc.• Hazem Chehabi and Salma Chehabi, M.S. ‘13• Jane and Jim Driscoll• Experian• FivePoint Communities / Dina and Emile Haddad

• Orange County Business Journal• Jim and Sheila Peterson / Microsemi• Joan Irvine Smith & Athalie R. Clarke Foundation• Tom ’74 and Misa Yuen Family Foundation• William Lyon Homes

Join us on Saturday, Oct. 5, as we honor the 2013 UCI Medalists.

We thank the Medal Awards Leadership Committee, co-chaired by Dina and Emile Haddad, for its vision, guidance and support.

Trustees Emeriti Arnold O. Beckman* Donald Bren Joan Irvine Smith

Trustees Richard C. AckermanAmer A. Boukai ’87Richard K. Bridgford, Esq.Jane BuchanPaul E. Butterworth ’81Bruce E. CahillEd L. Chang ’84 Hazem H. Chehabi, M.D.

Salma A. Chehabi, M.S. ’13Joseph L. Dunn John R. EvansDouglas K. FreemanEdwin D. FullerEmile K. HaddadRaouf Y. HalimJulie N. HillPhylis Y. HsiaGary H. HuntFrank JaoSteeve T. KayRick E. Keller, CFPJack M. Langson

Mohannad S. MalasCharles D. MartinFariborz Maseeh, Sc.D.James V. MazzoPaul MerageMichael A. MussallemEric Loren Nelson, Ph.D.Martha A. Newkirk, Ph.D. ’81Dennis Luan Thuc Nguyen ’94Thomas H. NielsenJames J. PetersonWilliam F. PodlichMark P. Robinson, Jr., Esq.Cheryll R. Ruszat

Richard J. RuszatMichael SchulmanGary J. Singer, Esq. ’74Ted SmithJames Irvine SwindenEdward O. Thorp, Ph.D.Thomas T. TierneyVictor TsaoDavid L. Tsoong, M.D.Dean A. YoostThomas C. K. Yuen ’74

*In Memorium

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