University Hills Campus Food Pantry Bin Is Taking Donations
A food collection bin benefitting the Fresh Basic Needs Hub campus food pantry is now installed in the Community Center Lounge. The bin is accepting all non-perishable foods and toiletries. Items will be picked up by food [...]
Resident Eagle Scout Completes UHills Horseshoe Pit
University Hills can add two new horseshoe pits to its growing list of recreational amenities, thanks to Kyle Mumm, a resident who recently completed the competition level pits as his Eagle Scout Project. Mumm, a [...]
UHills Neighbors Cut a Deal on Solar
When a group of University Hills neighbors got together one evening last year to hear about options for installing rooftop solar panels, negotiating a group discount was not an articulated goal. A handful of residents [...]
UHills Drone Pilot Captures Birds-Eye View of Area 11
For Peter Burke, a professor in UCI's Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Department, flying drones is a natural extension of an interest in aviation that goes back to childhood. "My brother and Dad were in [...]
Video Presentation on the Demography of University Hills
“America's Smartest Neighborhood? Demographer explores University Hills, the nation's largest on-campus faculty housing complex." With over 1,400 households, an even larger number of doctorates, and more than 4,000 residents and growing, UCI’s University Hills poses unique challenges [...]
Paleontologists Discover Fare Bird Feather Fossil at University Hills Area 10-2 project
Senior Project Manager Benny Vargas from SWCA reported that in 2014, the paleontological monitor at the University Hills Area 10-2 grading operation discovered bird feather fossils, which are an extremely rare and important scientific find. [...]