Broadcom co-founder Henry Samueli ... told a crowd of UC Irvine graduates Friday…. “Don’t make career choices on short-term financial gain. Job satisfaction and career enjoyment are far more important,” he said. “Long-term career aspirations encompass emotional and intellectual impact of work on society.”

Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and cosponsors announced the Phase 1 winners of the Environmental Justice Video Challenge for Students. The winning teams of college students created videos identifying and characterizing an environmental justice issue important to a local community. … First Place ($20,000): Unearthing Lead: The Power of Historical Maps - University of California, Irvine – Tim Schütz, David Banuelas, Annika Hjelmstad, Ariane Jong, Ashley Green, Javier Garibay, Alexis Guerra, and Irene Martinez.

Karina Khadarian, founder and CEO of Engineer Armenia, was just two years into college as a chemical engineering undergraduate when she decided that she had to do something to impact change in the homeland. … She developed a team at the University of California, Irvine, starting with 19 volunteers, most of whom were not of Armenian descent and had no relationship with Armenia. As a student volunteer in other engineering organizations on campus, she began by networking with and recruiting UCI students.