ON CAMPUS AT UCI:

Dr. Kristi Koenig, who is co-director of emergency medical services at the UC Irvine School of Medicine, travels the world sharing her expertise in disaster medicine, public health preparedness and emergency medical services. She has delivered more than 200 lectures in more than a dozen countries to help advance emergency medical care. In February 2006, she traveled to Mumbai, India, to train doctors and emergency responders for the possibility of a terrorist attack. Five months later, Mumbai suffered a wave of train bombings, which killed more than 200 people and injured hundreds more.

“There was a sense of surrealism and shock,” she said. “How can something like this happen when we were just there?”

The mock terrorism drills and disaster training were the first of their kind in the region. “It’s hard to measure the impact we had, but we were glad we went,” she said.

Koenig is working on her third book on disaster medicine, featuring input from the world’s leading experts. She hopes it will “lay an academic foundation for this new field” — and provide sound information to those pursuing careers in disaster preparedness post 9/11.

For more, go to www.ucihs.uci.edu/emergmed.

UCI NEWSWIRE

News happens every day at UCI, and now there’s a newswire to report it. Zot Wire provides a broad range of news briefs in an easily accessible format.

Topics include health and medicine, science and technology, arts and culture, politics and society, students and university news.

For the latest campus news, go to www.zotwire.uci.edu.

HONORING CLASS OF ’07

UCI’s 42nd annual commencement exercises will take place June 15 to 17.

Schools will be divided among 10 ceremonies, including two for social sciences and social ecology. All ceremonies will be held in Bren Events Center except for the Paul Merage School of Business graduation, to be held in Aldrich Park on June 17.

The Bren ceremonies will be streamed live at www.commencement.uci.edu.

MEMORY LECTURE

UCI psychologist Elizabeth Loftus will give a free talk on “What’s the Matter with Memory?” as the Howard A. Schneiderman Memorial Bioethics Lecture at 7 p.m. May 29 at the Beckman Center, 100 Academy Way, Irvine.

Loftus has shown that memory is highly susceptible to distortion and contamination, and that people can be influenced to “remember” experiences that did not occur.

For more details, call (949) 824-2500 or e-mail [email protected].

ORCHESTRA CONCERT

UCI Symphony Orchestra will perform “Deep Tones,” a concert featuring works by Mendelssohn, Weber, Coleridge Taylor and Strauss at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, June 8 and 9, at the Irvine Barclay Theatre.

Tickets are $8 to $12. A pre-concert conversation with conductor Stephen Tucker will be held at 7 p.m. Friday. For details, call (949) 824-2787.

ALL-UNDERGRADUATE PRODUCTION

“Urinetown,” the Tony-winning musical about a city that responds to a water shortage by outlawing private toilets, will be performed by UCI students at 8 p.m. May 31 to June 2 and June 6 to 9, and 2 p.m. June 2 and June 9 in Claire Trevor Theatre. Tickets are $9 to $17. For details, call (949) 824-2787.

ARBORETUM PLANT SALE

The UCI Arboretum will hold its June plant sale from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. June 23. The sale includes early summer bulbs and perennials, and clearance on remaining spring stock. Admission is free. The 12-acre botanical garden is at Jamboree Road and Campus Drive in Irvine. For details, call (949) 824-5833 or e-mail [email protected].