Month: July 2009

UC Irvine cosmologists have found two supernovae farther away than any previously detected by using a new technique that could…

An educational research team will head into California County schools this fall to see if visual software deepens understanding of mathematical concepts.

Books by UC Irvine faculty suit all tastes.

An influential Institute of Medicine advisory panel co-chaired by Dr. Sheldon Greenfield, the Donald Bren Professor of Medicine at UC…

Program to address anxiety before surgery helps reduce postoperative discomfort and could even lower the amount of pain medication needed

John Hipp, assistant professor of criminology, law & society, studies the impact of demographic changes in Orange County.

Pediatric surgery can be traumatic for children – and their parents. To guide families through the experience, Dr. Zeev Kain, chair of UC Irvine’s Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Care, is creating a unique Internet site to help parents ease children’s anxiety (and their own), properly manage postsurgical pain and, ultimately, facilitate healing.

All too often, a stethoscope and a doctor’s touch are still the primary tools for diagnosing emergency-room patients. UC Irvine physician Chris Fox aims to change that. Rather than feeling for a broken bone or swollen abdomen or merely listening to the heart, Fox has trained UC Irvine Medical Center’s emergency department clinicians to use the latest in lightweight, high-resolution […]

After 35 years at UC Irvine, Sally Peterson retired June 30 from her official job as dean of students, assistant vice chancellor of student affairs — and, unofficially, university den mother, cheerleader, enforcer, negotiator, coach and mentor. During her tenure, Peterson played a major role in campus life, initiating activities, programs and policies that helped […]