Year: 2009

UCI students reach out to Iraqi kids

In three years, UCI’s Baghdad School Project has shipped 7,500 packets of notebooks, pencils, erasers and rulers to schoolchildren in…

UCI reaches out to Iraqi schoolchildren

UCI students fill a need not met by traditional relief workers in Iraq – providing school supplies to children.

UCI, Chapman and CSUF join forces to develop global warming solutions

Daylong workshop brings together experts from three Orange County campuses to outline possible solutions to climate change

OC high school students to take part in annual CampMed

Students from four Orange County high schools will take part in CampMed, the annual UC Irvine School of Medicine outreach…

Spider-Man

Making physics fun

Michael Dennin, UC Irvine physics & astronomy professor, will discuss the science behind superheroes 8-9 a.m. Tuesday, May 19, at the University Club. A complimentary breakfast will begin at 7:30 a.m.

Braille Institute clients to experience sculpture in UCI mesquite garden

Nancy Doran takes blind art lovers on a hands-on tour of her sculpture, dedicated to UCI and displayed in the Mesquite Garden Plaza

Science of superheroes topic of breakfast lecture

Michael Dennin, physics & astronomy professor, will discuss “Foams & Superheroes: Physics of the Ordinary and Extraordinary” as part of the Discover the Physical Sciences 2008-09 Breakfast Lecture Series, sponsored by UC Irvine’s School of Physical Sciences 7:30-9 a.m. Tuesday, May 19.

UCI awarded $45 million for infectious disease research

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded UC Irvine $45…

Professor Michael Dennin to discuss science, superheroes

With amazing feats of speed, strength and agility, superheroes have captured our imaginations since the first comic strip. But if…

Vaccine slows progression of skeletal muscle disorder

A potential vaccine for Alzheimer’s disease also has been shown in mice to slow the weakening of muscles associated with inclusion body myositis, a disorder that affects the elderly.