UCI shows education strategy increases patients’ willingness to get vaccinated
Professors from the Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing have unveiled a novel education strategy that significantly boosts patients’ willingness to receive an influenza vaccine – from 29 percent to...
View ArticleBridging state, local climate action
In collaboration with the state of California, the UCI School of Law has unveiled a groundbreaking initiative called Integrated and Equitable Climate Action. Funded by a $1.2 million Climate Action...
View ArticleUC Irvine law, criminology experts release second edition of Rap on Trial: A...
Irvine, Calif., Jan. 23, 2024 – The second edition of Rap on Trial: A Legal Guide was released today amid growing national concern and legislative developments regarding the use of rap lyrics in...
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UC Irvine-led team unravels mysteries of planet formation, evolution in...
Irvine, Calif., Jan. 29, 2024 – A recently discovered solar system with six confirmed exoplanets and a possible seventh is boosting astronomers’ knowledge of planet formation and evolution. Relying on...
View ArticleBernadette Boden-Albala to be honored for contributions in addressing stroke...
Irvine, Calif., Jan. 30, 2024 — Bernadette Boden-Albala, M.P.H., Dr.P.H., director of the University of California, Irvine Program in Public Health and founding dean of the planned School of...
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UC Irvine scientists make breakthrough in quantum materials research
Irvine, Calif., Jan. 31, 2024 — Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and Los Alamos National Laboratory, publishing in the latest issue of Nature Communications, describe the discovery...
View ArticleStudy highlights key social forces shaping worldwide academic freedom trends
Irvine, Calif., Jan. 31, 2024 — Recent crackdowns on academic freedom span the globe, from cases of university closures in Turkey, the dismissal of professors in China, and attacks on scholars in...
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Celebrating Black artists
Dancing in Nocturne in 1953, Donald McKayle exhibits pioneering technique that his peers say goes to the heart of the artistic and human condition. With its roots dating to the 1910s, Black History...
View ArticleForging global understanding
Nine students from UCI’s School of Medicine, along with Dr. Rimal Bera, clinical professor of psychiatry & human behavior, spent Dec. 15, 2023, to Jan. 2 in Rajkot, India. The global health trip –...
View ArticleUC Irvine online criminology master’s program again rated No. 1 in nation
Irvine, Calif., Feb. 7, 2024 — The University of California, Irvine Master of Advanced Study in criminology, law and society has been named the nation’s best online criminal justice master’s program...
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Family-based heart health
Summary SERVE OC takes a family-based approach to optimizing heart health The program aims to scale up intervention over next five years Community partners expand the reach of the project In the U.S.,...
View ArticleUC Irvine researcher authors ‘scientists’ warning’ on climate and technology
Irvine, Calif., Feb. 15, 2024 – Throughout human history, technologies have been used to make peoples’ lives richer and more comfortable, but they have also contributed to a global crisis threatening...
View ArticleUC Irvine researcher receives award from his homeland, the Republic of Cyprus
Kyriacos A. Athanasiou, Distinguished Professor of biomedical engineering in the Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine, received the Medal of Excellence from the Cyprus Academy of Sciences,...
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Surgeon leads overseas medical missions to poor villages
Summary Joined by an ex-NASA contractor, a high school robotics team and assorted Anteaters, Dr. Cristobal Barrios Jr.’s nonprofit treated 3,750 people last summer. Patients and medical personnel both...
View ArticleBoosting health equity with organ avatars
SummaryUCI engineer Quinton Smith is gaining national recognition for developing lab-grown tissues that can be used to test new drugs. In this video, he explains how the technique works. Popular...
View ArticleUCI Podcast: Bridget R. Cooks takes us inside the Met
Bridget R. Cooks has done it all in the art world, transitioning from a young artist into a dedicated art historian during her years pursuing a B.A. at UC Irvine. An early foray into museum education...
View ArticleUC Irvine researchers awarded grants by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Irvine, Calif., Feb. 21, 2024 – Three University of California, Irvine researchers are on teams that have won Chan Zuckerberg Initiative grants to pursue the development of advanced medical and...
View ArticleUC Irvine study shows similarities and differences in human and insect vision...
Irvine, Calif., Feb. 22, 2024 – Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have discovered profound similarities and surprising differences between humans and insects in the production of the...
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Music as medicine
Summary A collaboration among UCI Health, the Claire Trevor School of the Arts and the Philharmonic Society of Orange County brought the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s Strokestra program to UCI. The...
View ArticleUC Irvine advances stem cell research with $4 million CIRM grant for shared...
Irvine, Calif., Feb. 26, 2024 — The University of California, Irvine has received a five-year, $4 million grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to establish a shared resources...
View ArticleFarah Khorassani provides expert insight at Lake Forest town hall on fentanyl
Farah Khorassani, UCI associate professor of clinical pharmacy practice, shared her insights at Lake Forest’s town hall on fentanyl Feb. 22, hosted by Assemblywoman Diane R. Dixon. A leading expert in...
View ArticleAutonomous vehicle technology vulnerable to road object spoofing and...
Irvine, Calif., Feb. 29, 2024 — A University of California, Irvine-led research team has demonstrated the potentially hazardous vulnerabilities associated with the technology called LiDAR, or Light...
View ArticleDr. Robert McCarron shares UCI program success with Congressional committee
Dr. Robert McCarron, director of education at the Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute, was invited to speak on an expert panel convened by the California Senate & Assembly Select Committee...
View ArticleUCI Law and Point Foundation announce new scholarship initiative
UC Irvine’s School of Law and Point Foundation have established a scholarship initiative to help Point graduating scholars and alumni attain an affordable legal education. Successful applicants will...
View ArticleUCI Podcast: The role of women in the Black Lives Matter movement
March is Women’s History Month, an opportunity to celebrate the numerous contributions that women have made to American society. In this episode of the UCI Podcast, we’ll shine a spotlight on women...
View ArticleThe Drake Gives contributes $1.5 million to UC Irvine’s Power of Music...
Irvine, Calif., March 7, 2024 – A donation of $1.5 million from The Drake Gives will support a novel initiative at the University of California, Irvine’s School of Social Ecology focused on leveraging...
View ArticleGrounding zone discovery explains accelerated melting under Greenland’s glaciers
Irvine, Calif., March 13, 2024 – Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have conducted the first large-scale observation and modeling study of...
View ArticleUC Irvine launches customized generative artificial intelligence tool
Irvine, Calif., March 18, 2024 — The University of California, Irvine has deployed a customized generative artificial intelligence solution called ZotGPT Chat. One of the first of its kind in the UC...
View ArticleUC Irvine-led research team discovers role of key enzymes that drive cancer...
Irvine, Calif., March 18, 2024 — A research team led by the University of California, Irvine has discovered the key role that the APOBEC3A and APOBEC3B enzymes play in driving cancer mutations by...
View ArticleUC Irvine engineers win Air Force grant to study exoskeletons of special beetles
A team led by researchers at UC Irvine has won a $904,000 grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for a four-year project to uncover the multiscale architectural features and functions...
View ArticleAir Force awards $4 million research grant to UC Irvine materials scientists
In recent years, researchers at UC Irvine and other institutions have studied the molecular mechanisms by which microbes survive in hyper-arid desert environments by taking mineral nutrients and water...
View ArticleAir Force grants 1.5 million to UCI researchers for purchase of new instruments
The Air Force Office of Scientific Research, under its Defense University Research Instrumentation Program, has granted materials scientists at UC Irvine $1.5 million for the acquisition of...
View ArticleUC Irvine professor outlines solutions to beach erosion
Brett Sanders, professor of civil and environmental engineering, shared his expertise on the drivers and processes affecting beach erosion along Southern California’s coastline at the 2024 Orange...
View ArticleUC Irvine-led research team builds first tandem repeat expansions genetic...
Irvine, Calif., April 5, 2024 — A research team led by the University of California, Irvine has built the first genetic reference maps for short lengths of DNA repeated multiple times which are known...
View ArticleArt as rarely experienced
“Plein-Air en Plein Air” brings California landscape painting back to the outdoors and presents a dynamic art experience in an unexpected setting. Images of artworks from the permanent collection of...
View ArticleBernadette Boden-Albala to deliver keynote speech at AAN Healthcare Equity...
Irvine, Calif., April 8, 2024 — Bernadette Boden-Albala, M.P.H., Dr.P.H., director of the University of California, Irvine Program in Public Health and founding dean of the planned School of...
View ArticleUC Irvine’s graduate programs excel in U.S. News & World Report rankings
Irvine, Calif., April 9, 2024 —UC Irvine’s doctoral programs once again shined in U.S. News & World Report’s graduate school rankings – published online today. For the fifth straight year, the...
View ArticleUC Irvine scientist helps link climate change to Madagascar’s megadrought
Irvine, Calif., April 9, 2024 — A University of California, Irvine-led team reveals a clear link between human-driven climate change and the years-long drought currently gripping southern Madagascar....
View ArticleUC Irvine researchers find new origin of deep brain waves
Irvine, Calif., April 10, 2024 — University of California, Irvine biomedical engineering researchers have uncovered a previously unknown source of two key brain waves crucial for deep sleep: slow...
View ArticleWang Feng and Gene Tsudik are named 2024 Guggenheim Fellows
Irvine, Calif., April 11, 2024 — University of California, Irvine professors Wang Feng and Gene Tsudik have been awarded 2024 Guggenheim Fellowships. They join 186 other American and Canadian...
View ArticleHealth fair draws local residents
SummaryHundreds attend Santa Ana health fair organized by UC Irvine’s Interprofessional Education & Practice Collaborative. More than 200 Orange County residents had their cholesterol, vision,...
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Bringing ancient Egypt to life
SummaryLuiza Osorio G. Silva, who grew up entranced by mummy movies, is the Department of Art History’s first Egyptologist. Her classes cover everything from tomb artwork to royal power, and she’s...
View ArticleUC Irvine professor of nursing to receive national award for policy advocacy
Irvine, Calif., April 17, 2024 — Susanne Phillips, DNP, professor and senior associate dean in UC Irvine’s Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing, has been selected as the recipient of the 2024...
View Article4 UC Irvine researchers are elected AAAS fellows
Irvine, Calif., April 18, 2024 — Four University of California, Irvine researchers – working in fields as diverse as computational chemistry, statistical methods, particle physics and inorganic...
View ArticleClean energy for ‘everyone and for everything’
UC Irvine’s Clean Energy Institute was founded in 2022 as an umbrella organization to help coordinate and administer sustainability research for several campus interdisciplinary centers. Its first...
View ArticleThe past, present and future of AI in education
ChatGPT, a popular artificial intelligence tool that can generate written materials in response to prompts, reached 100 million monthly active users in January 2023, just two months after its launch....
View ArticleEnvironmental and Climate Change Literacy Projects’ annual forum symposium to...
EVENT: The Environmental and Climate Change Literacy Projects (ECCLPs) is hosting its annual forum symposium, with this year’s theme being “Collaborating for Change: Bridging the Gap in Climate and...
View ArticleUC Irvine to lead study of how DNA genetic variations might influence...
Irvine, Calif., April 24, 2024 — A three-year, $1.19 million grant from the Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program will allow University of California, Irvine researchers to explore how specific...
View ArticleRoxane Cohen Silver elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Irvine, Calif., April 24, 2024 — Acclaimed psychologist Roxane Cohen Silver of the University of California, Irvine – whose groundbreaking studies on stress and coping have advanced understanding of...
View ArticleRethinking healthcare
On April 15, UC Irvine launched the Center for Health Ethics, a critical effort to mobilize public health researchers and scholars across campus in addressing a range of challenging, health-related...
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