Month: October 2009

New arts dean

Acclaimed artist and academic administrator from Alfred University in New York also is known as a builder of community partnerships.

Bigbox

Locally owned businesses don’t protect communities from layoffs and closures, study shows. UCI co-author says findings validate efforts to attract and retain corporations.

PPS Alzheimer's

UC Irvine presents “Stem Cell Research & Alzheimer’s Disease,” a public lecture and discussion about the devastation of Alzheimer’s, current therapies and potential stem cell treatments.

Wallace elected to Institute of Medicine

The pioneering UC Irvine genetics researcher’s achievements in mitochondrial medicine are leading to new treatments for chronic diseases like cancer and diabetes.

"Gulliver" (2001) by Nam June Paik

Exhibition looks at TV with a new eye

The ubiquitous TV becomes sculpture in an exhibit of work by the late mixed-media artist Nam June Paik at Beall Center.

Yukio "Yo" Nishida with his family

Life in Middle Earth

UCI offers Yukio Nishida a home for his growing family and a purpose – to help residents of student housing.

Professor Elizabeth Cauffman

Studying teens’ emotional maturity gap

A new study of adolescent judgment and decision-making shows young people may not be able to fully control impulses, resist peer pressure until after 22.

Kenneth Longmuir

Making chemotherapy safer, more effective

UCI researchers Kenneth Longmuir and Richard Robertson have developed a more precise approach to delivery of chemotherapy drugs.

Juvenile Crime

Young people may not be able to fully control impulses, resist peer pressure till after 22.

Allergan climate

UC Irvine Earth system scientists Michael Prather and Diane Pataki will speak on “Climate Is Changing Globally. Dare We Act Locally?” as part of the Allergan Foundation Lecture Series in Modern Biology.