Month: August 2007

EH&S Spiked Punch crowned staff volleyball champs

Environmental Heath & Safety’s Spiked Punch volleyball team captured UC Irvine’s department staff volleyball championship Tuesday, Aug. 28, at the…

UCI professor emeritus honored in special-edition journal

Kenneth Small, professor emeritus of economics at UC Irvine, is the subject of a special issue of the Journal of Urban Economics, which published a selection of essays in his honor. Small was named a fellow of the Regional Science Association International in 2006 and was recently recognized as the 2007 UC Irvine Lauds & […]

State grant to support alcohol prevention program for drivers

Dr. Federico Vaca and the UC Irvine School of Medicine’s Center for Trauma and Injury Prevention Research were recently awarded…

Ron Carlson's Five Skies praised by New York Times

<![CDATA[“Bluntly beautiful and unnerving” — that’s the phrase The New York Times‘ Sunday Book Review used to describe…]]>

The fun meister

Through his roles in Staff Assembly and Campus Recreation, Mike Puritz is serious about getting people to play

Silver to receive service award from psychological association

UC Irvine psychologist Roxane Cohen Silver will receive the American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Service at the group’s leadership…

UCI named one of top 25 cutting-edge schools by Kaplan

<![CDATA[The latest edition of You Are Here: A Guide to Over 380 Colleges and Unlimited Paths to Your Future …]]>

Lives in the balance

Engineering professor Maria Feng works to make structures safer and avoid disasters like the Minneapolis bridge collapse

Competition offers $2 million in awards for digital learning projects

Teachers, gamers, journalists, bloggers and tech wizards – almost anyone creating and sharing knowledge online – can participate in a…

UC Irvine researchers find genetic link to panic disorder

A UC Irvine research team led by Rainer Reinscheid, associate professor of pharmacology and the program in pharmaceutical sciences, has…