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The UC Irvine women’s tennis team has received a national letter of intent from Stephanie Hammel to attend and compete at UCI. Hammel, a senior at Valencia High, is a five-star athlete according to TennisRecruiting.net. “It’s always exciting to sign a top-ranked local player,” UCI Coach Mike Edles said. “Stephanie has an impressive array of shots, can hit with power, and is a very skilled doubles player. Even as a freshman, Stephanie has the ability to make an impact in our program in both singles and doubles.

A UC Irvine engineering and chemistry professor has won a prestigious award for Southland chemists. Peter M. Rentzepis received the Tolman Medal for outstanding contributions to chemistry. His ultra-fast laser techniques for research revolutionized many areas of science. He has also developed methods for three-dimensional optical storage, including a "memory cube" that has the potential to store as much as a trillion bits of information in a volume slightly smaller than a sugar cube.

UC Irvine will present a free public panel discussion about Alzheimer?s Disease, including current therapies and potential stem cell treatments, from 1 to 3:30 p.m. Saturday on the campus in the Biological Sciences III building, Room 1200. Robert Klein, chairman of the committee that oversees the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, will be the keynote speaker of ?Stem Cell Research & Alzheimer?s Disease.? Frank LaFerla, director of UCI?s Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders, and colleague Malcolm Dick will participate in the panel discussion, moderated by Hans Keirstead, co-director of the school?

James Goodrich, a neurosurgeon who won international fame in 2004 when he helped to separate 2-year-old conjoined twins, is scheduled to speak Friday at UC Irvine. The UCI Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory will host the lecture, which begins at noon in the Dale Melbourne Herklotz Conference Center. The talk is free and open to the public. Goodrich received a bachelor's degree in biological sciences from UCI in 1974 and serves as the director of pediatric neurosurgery at Montefiore Medical Center in New York.

UC Irvine senior Erinn Kim (women’s) and freshman Sam Hyams (men’s) have been named Big West Conference Athletes of the Week in cross country. Kim won the individual title of the Titan Invitational Friday with a time of 18 minutes, 11.9 seconds over the 5,000-meter course on the Cal State Fullerton campus. Her showing helped UCI to a second-place team finish. Hyams was the top-scoring collegiate runner in the men’s competition with a time of 25:38.0 over 8,000 meters as the Anteaters won the team title.

Orange Coast College sophomore center fielder Cory Olson has signed a letter of intent to continue his baseball career at UC Irvine, OCC Coach John Altobelli announced. Olson, a first-team All-Orange Empire Conference performer as a freshman, was hitting .352 for the Pirates through Wednesday. Entering Thursday’s game against Saddleback, he had started all 37 games for the Pirates (26-10-1). He led the team in hits (50), home runs (seven), runs (38), stolen bases (14 in 14 attempts)

The estate of Frederick Reines, UC Irvine's founding dean of physical sciences, and his wife, Sylvia Reines, announced this week that the estate would donate $350,000 to the university. Reines, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics while a UCI professor in 1995, won world renown for his research into subatomic particles. He died in 1998 at age 80. The gift from the Reines' estate will fund a lectureship in the physical sciences, scholarships for music and drama and special library collections.

Paula Smith has been promoted to Senior Associate Athletic Director at UC Irvine, Athletic Director Mike Izzi announced Friday. “Paula’s leadership abilities are an integral part of our department,” Izzi said. “Her background and experience have been, and will, continue to be vital components to our success.” Smith has served as associate athletic director/senior woman administrator at UCI since July 2006. She previously served in a similar position at UC Riverside from 2001-06.

Jeff Perkins has been named an assistant coach for men?s and women?s track and field at UC Irvine, Anteaters Coach Vince O?Boyle announced Tuesday. Perkins joins the Anteaters? staff from the University of Oklahoma, where he served as an assistant coach for the men since 2005. He coached the sprints, hurdles and relays for the Sooners, who won the Big 12 outdoor championship last season. Perkins is familiar with the Big West Conference as he served as an assistant coach for the men?

Shawbong Fok It has often been said that you meet your lifelong friends in college. Ideally, the college would have a community atmosphere that fosters student bonding. But some students at UC Irvine say that it lacks a community atmosphere. "It is hard to meet people," undergraduate Grace Kim said. Two college guides, Kaplan and the Princeton Review, echo Kim's sentiment, explaining that UC Irvine, which opened in 1965, is largely a commuter school without the commercial appeal of a championship Division I football team that often unites and enlivens a campus.