Year: 2008

Dr. Kenneth Chang

When holiday food fights back

Dr. Kenneth Chang, medical director of the H.H. Chao Comprehensive Digestive Disease Center at UC Irvine Medical Center, has pioneered treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease and other GI disorders.

Dr. Gerald Maguire

Worldwide care for stuttering

Dr. Gerald Maguire started the world’s first clinic dedicated to the medical care of stuttering, and if patients in faraway places can’t come to his UC Irvine Medical Center office for treatment, he brings it to them.

Professor Derek Dunn-Rankin

Engineering coal power

UCI research addresses the challenges of cleaner, coal-based energy

Liz Losh

Developing digital-age authors

Elizabeth Losh challenges students to become active, critical users of social media

The internet

Teens thrive in digital age

Teens who are into texting, gaming and “geeking out” are not wasting their time, according to results from the most extensive U.S. study on young people and their use of digital media.

Fan-Gang Zeng

Business of research

The first time Fan-Gang Zeng invented a cochlear implant – a device he believed could help thousands regain lost hearing – things didn’t work out too well.

Olson re-elected to water district board

Betty H. Olson, UC Irvine professor of civil and environmental engineering and associate director of the Urban Water Research Center,…

Rearing twins: Top 50 tips

Dr. Khanh-Van Le-Bucklin shares her knowledge, both as a pediatrician and as a M.O.M. (mother of multiples)

Returning to earth

Peter the Anteater’s back at UCI – after a trip aboard the space shuttle with astronaut Tracy Caldwell

John Zogby

Pollster proves his point

In a pre-election editorial, John Zogby, the political pollster with the reputation for pinpoint accuracy, predicted that the Nov. 4 vote would “usher in one of the few years of genuine reform.”