Day: December 10, 2007

By design

English professor Julia Lupton’s lively career has all the action of a Shakespearean drama

Up to half of hypertension patients are not reaching blood pressure goals

Nearly three-fourths of American adults with coronary heart disease, stroke, diabetes or other conditions that raise the risk for cardiovascular complications also have high blood pressure, according to a University of California, Irvine study. The report, which appears in the Dec. 24 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, also notes that although 75 percent […]

de Figueiredo elected to Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, awarded honorary medal

Rui J. P. de Figueiredo, electrical engineering and computer science and mathematics research professor at UC Irvine, has been elected…

UCI professor publishes book on doing business in Japan

John Graham, professor of marketing and international business at UC Irvine’s Paul Merage School of Business, has co-authored a book…

Five UC Irvine students bring home research prizes

Five UC Irvine students were among 26 first-place winners for outstanding scientific research presentations at the 2007 Sigma Xi Student…

Shah receives physician service award

Dr. Nitin Shah, UC Irvine clinical professor of anesthesiology, has received the 2007 Physician Service Award from the Indian Medical…

Herbal extract found to increase lifespan of fruit flies

The herbal extract of a yellow-flowered mountain plant indigenous to the Arctic regions of Europe and Asia increased the lifespan…

Greater parental guidance suggested for noisy toy use

UC Irvine hearing researchers tested the noise levels of some of the more popular toys this holiday season. They found…

School of Medicine breaks ground on state-of-the-art medical education building

A new medical education building for the UC Irvine School of Medicine will help prepare tomorrow’s doctors for healthcare in…