Unconventional Instruction

Innovative teachers shake up traditional lectures to engage students and improve learning

A short heat-treatment of luggage may reduce spread of bedbugs

UCI entomologist finds nonchemical method effective in killing pests on exterior

Bean leaves can trap bedbugs, researchers find

Irvine, Calif., April 9, 2013 – Inspired by a traditional Balkan bedbug remedy, researchers have documented how microscopic hairs on kidney bean leaves effectively stab and trap the biting insects, according to findings published online today in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface. Scientists at UC Irvine and the University of Kentucky are now […]

Catherine Loudon

Going with the flow

Innovative biology course makes the unseen – and its movement – visible.