Month: September 2008

New institute to explore how world's poor use technology to spend, store and save money

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded UC Irvine a $1.7 million grant to create a new research institute…

Lane awarded Chancellor's Fellow title

Thomas Lane, molecular biology & biochemistry professor, has been named a Chancellor’s Fellow, effective Sept. 1, 2008, to Aug. 31,…

Giving them ‘Goosebumps’

Education lecturer Rebecca Constantino launches Access Books to get inner-city kids hooked on reading

UCI scientists help launch atom smasher

UC Irvine scientists are playing a key role in the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s most powerful particle accelerator. Built…

Olympic ovation

Athletes hailed on Student Center Stage

Buzz about biology

Rebecca Aicher shares her passion for plant ecology with high school biology students

UCI's first employee, overseer of campus construction, dies at age 94

Lavonne Edwin Cox, the first employee of UC Irvine, died Aug. 26 of complications from a fall. He was 94.…

A courageous path

After a near-death encounter with a grizzly bear, Regents’ Scholar Jenna Otter’s path to success was all about focus