Trouble paying attention? UCI awarded $1.6 million to study why
Listening and learning, walking and working – the ability to concentrate underlies all that and more. A $1.6 million grant…
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Stemming the Rising Mental Health Crisis
UCI researchers help illuminate the complexities of the mind and find solutions to prevent a twin pandemic
UCI Podcast: Uncovering the cause of the soil lead crisis in Santa Ana
UCI historian Juan Manuel Rubio partners with environmental justice groups on research
School of Social Ecology receives $1 million from estate of founding faculty member
Gift endows Carol Kupers Whalen Fund, which supports students and faculty research
Foster care children at much greater risk of physical, mental health problems
Large-scale study co-authored by UCI sociologist is first of its kind
UCI student entrepreneurs do battle in business plan competition
12 winning teams share $100,000 in cash, prizes at annual event
Kids’ health suffers when parents go to jail
UCI study finds incarceration more detrimental than divorce or death of mother, father
Parental incarceration linked to health, behavioral issues in children
The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world, with more than 2 million people currently behind bars. How this affects their families is the subject of a new UC Irvine study, which found significant health and behavioral problems in children of incarcerated parents. The most striking finding is that in some cases parental incarceration can be more detrimental to a child’s well-being than divorce or the death of a parent.
Greenfield-led panel suggests U.S. medical priorities
An influential Institute of Medicine advisory panel co-chaired by Dr. Sheldon Greenfield, the Donald Bren Professor of Medicine at UC…
Can exercise make kids smarter?
This is the second in a three-part series of essays by UC Irvine pediatrician Dr. Dan Cooper on children and exercise.