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For a recent "positive computing" study by informatics researchers at UCI, subjects were asked to smile and snap a selfie with their smartphone every day for three weeks.

Steve Zylius / UCI

UCI study links selfies, happiness ›

UCI has been ranked ninth among public universities nationwide in U.S. News & World Report’s 2017 Best Colleges evaluation.

Elena Zhukova

UCI ranked 9th among nation’s public universities by U.S. News & World Report ›

"Every year, large numbers of K-12 students are not able to go to school due to illness, which has negative academic, social and medical consequences," says UCI doctoral student Veronica Newhart, lead author of a study on the benefits of telepresence robots, such as the one shown.

Steve Zylius / UCI

Robotic surrogates help chronically ill kids maintain social, academic ties at school ›

Features

New UCI faculty gather at the University Club after a welcome ceremony that emphasized the importance of research and academic creativity.

Steve Zylius / UCI

September 27, 2016

New faculty faces

Hiring of 100 educators goes long way toward satisfying strategic plan goal of 250

September 26, 2016 Let the gaming begin!
September 26, 2016 Democracy in action
September 19, 2016 New day, new digs
September 19, 2016 Planning a BIG Welcome Week

Press Releases

The UCI-led study found that soil integrates carbon far slower than thought, meaning the amount it's capable of absorbing from the atmosphere this century is much less than predicted by current Earth system models.

Steve Zylius / UCI

September 22, 2016

Soil will absorb less atmospheric carbon than expected this century, UCI-led study finds

Improved Earth system models paint bleak climate change picture

September 15, 2016 UCI-SUNY research details how workplace stress contributes to cardiovascular disease
September 13, 2016 UCI study links selfies, happiness
September 13, 2016 UCI ranked 9th among nation’s public universities by U.S. News & World Report
September 7, 2016 Robotic surrogates help chronically ill kids maintain social, academic ties at school

September 27, 2016 0 New faculty faces
September 26, 2016 0 Lander, Calof honored for rare disease breakthroughs
September 23, 2016 0 Chancellor’s Fellow Jennifer Lee pens article on immigrant experience for Los Angeles magazine
September 23, 2016 0 Ngugi wa Thiong’o wins S. Korean literary prize

Rated RED, Sept. 23, 2016
Gaming to the next degree

Yahoo Esports, Sept. 26, 2016
Jesse Wang on UCI’s new eSports arena

U.S. News & World Report, Sept. 27, 2016
10 colleges that receive the most applications

Orange County Register, Sept. 26, 2016
Violent crime rises in California, U.S. − but is still low compared to past

Chemistry World, Sept. 23, 2016
Soil sponge soaking up far less carbon dioxide than expected

LA Weekly, Sept. 26, 2016
What's Brad Pitt's age? A new law could make it a secret

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