Month: June 2007

Boellstorff named American Anthropologist editor

Tom Boellstorff, associate professor of anthropology, has been named editor-in-chief of American Anthropologist, the flagship journal of the American Anthropological…

Chancellor Drake honored as champion of diversity

Chancellor Michael V. Drake will be honored as a 2007 Champions of Health Professions Diversity recipient by The California Wellness…

Dirty snow may warm Arctic as much as greenhouse gases

The global warming debate has focused on carbon dioxide emissions, but scientists at UC Irvine have determined that a lesser-known…

Chancellor presents inaugural Living Our Values Awards

Establishing a new UC Irvine tradition, Chancellor Michael V. Drake presented the campus’s first Living Our Values Awards to members…

PRIME-LC student named AMA Minority Scholars Award winner

Elysia Alvarez, a first-year medical student at UC Irvine, has received a 2007 Minority Scholars Award from the American Medical…

UC Irvine awarded $3.9 million to upgrade stem cell research facilities, training

UC Irvine today was awarded $3.9 million to upgrade its core embryonic stem cell research laboratory and expand a program to train young scientists on research techniques involving human embryonic stem cells. This grant is part of more than $50 million in Shared Research Laboratory funding awarded to 17 institutions by the Independent Citizens Oversight […]

Center for Citizen Peacebuilding asks for help freeing Ali Shakeri

UCI’s Center for Citizen Peacebuilding is asking for help calling for the release of Ali Shakeri, a founding member of…

UC Irvine pediatricians put the focus on children and exercise

Dr. Dan Cooper and The Pediatric Exercise Research Center at UC Irvine have teamed up with The Orange County Register…

Middle school affiliated with UCI's MESA program heading to national competition

For the second year in a row, Roosevelt Middle School in Compton will represent California in the MESA USA National…

Two UCI sailors named All-Americans

UC Irvine senior sailors Frank Tybor and Whitney Loufek were named Intercollegiate Sailing Association All-Americans. Tybor was named to the…