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Driving ambition
Federico Vaca and his team combine behavioral science and technology to improve teen and young adult safety behind the wheel
UCI’s Chief Innovation Officer Errol Arkilic. Beall Applied Innovation
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A hub of invention
Ian O. Williamson, dean of UC Irvine’s Paul Merage School of Business.
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The power and promise of higher education in an age of disru…
Dr. J. Stuart Nelson from the Beckman Laser Institute & Medical Clinic demonstrates the Dynamic Cooling Device, in 2011.
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Lighting the way
Microglia, brain cells
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Harnessing the brain’s repair crew
UC Irvine Magazine, Winter 2025 - Toward the Common Good
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Toward the Common Good
Special Report: Clearing the Air
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Clearing the Air

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UC Irvine researchers find new Alzheimer’s mechanism linked to brain inflammation
Planet and star in deep space. Super-Earth with ocean. Sunrise on a blue Earth-like planet.
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UC Irvine astronomers discover nearby exoplanet in habitable…
The team found that the surface may have liquid water on its surface – a neces…
UC Irvine Professor and Chair of Psychiatry and Human Behavior Cameron Carter.
Campus News
UC Irvine’s Cameron Carter is elected to National Academy of…
Distinguished Professor is recognized for advances in cognitive neuroscience, p…

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Jun Wu, UC Irvine professor of environmental and occupational health
Faculty
UC Irvine wins NIH grant to study environmental impacts on maternal, c…
Research will explore effects of exposure to heat waves, wildfire smoke in Southern California
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Designing materials for next-generation propulsion systems
UC Irvine researchers awarded multidisciplinary $2 million grant investigating materials for rotat…
Leslie M. Thompson, Donald Bren Professor of Psychiatry & Human Behavior and Neurobiology & Behavior at UC Irvine.
Biological Sciences
CIRM awards UC Irvine neuroscientist another $2 million for Huntington…
Goal is to determine why the fatal condition destroys some brain cells but spares others

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Studying a nearby exoplanet
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Research realities in the face of funding restrictions

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