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Digital Innovation Showcase at Celebrate UCI: Using XR Technology to Enhance the Prospective Student Experience
Students don MetaQuest headsets to experience dorm life during Celebrate UCI 2025. Tony Hwang/UCI June 24, 2025By Antu Nguyen At this year’s Celebrate UCI, hundreds of admitted students stepped into the future of campus life through the new Digital Innovation...
UCI Launches AWS Credits Portal, Offering Free Cloud Computing Resources to Students and Faculty
The AWS Credits Portal, which launched in February 2025, allows eligible UCI community members to access sandbox AWS accounts pre-loaded with $25 in credits. These accounts offer a wide range of cloud services, including computing power, storage solutions, and advanced tools for machine learning and data analytics.
Classroom-Focused AI Chatbot Is Making Its Way Into UCI Classrooms
UCI is now introducing ClassChat: a ZotGPT tool with the ability to create course-specific enclaves and learning environments that have significant potential to enhance student learning and success. Joining our ZotGPT suite of AI services, ClassChat represents UCI’s next bold step into the higher education AI space.
A Journey of Growth and Innovation: From UCI’s ELP to SLAC
For Haley Marts, Computer Science ’24, the road to a career in computer science and technology was anything but straightforward. She began her journey at community college, exploring both mechanical engineering and computer science, and ultimately discovered a passion for programming.
Design-a-thon Winners: Celebrating Innovation in VR and Imagination at UCI
This past spring, the Office of Data and Information Technology (ODIT) partnered with the student group Design at UCI to offer a special VR track as part of their 2024 Design-a-thon competition, ‘True to You.’ Thanks to ODIT’s sponsorship and the leadership of Jessica Sotelo, Design-a-thon Director, and Keri Albers, Digital Innovation at UCI, nine students gained access to Meta Quest headsets and the opportunity to learn how to create immersive environments.
Zotsites: The UCI Search Engine Empowering Students to Navigate Campus
Conceptualized in Fall 2023 to enter the ANTrepreneur Center’s annual AI Innovation Challenge, Zotsites aims to assist students in navigating the vast expanse of UCI-related domains and webpages, including academic resources, student services, campus organizations, communities and even third-party UCI-centered discussion threads on Reddit – so students can always find the relevant information they need.
UC Irvine Embraces AI with Launch of ZotGPT for Students
On April 30, UC Irvine announced the launch of ZotGPT Chat for students. Custom-made to support UC Irvine’s emerging generative AI needs, ZotGPT is UCI’s answer to the data privacy and governance concerns regarding third-party AI services, while still offering users the capabilities found in the latest GPT large-language models.
ZotGPT For Students
All UCI students now have access to ZotGPT Chat, UCI’s homegrown and customized generative AI tool.