Month: February 2010

Butterfly experts have suspected for more than 150 years that vision plays a key role in explaining wing color diversity.…

Paul Root Wolpe, Center for Ethics director at Emory University, will address “Is My Mind Mine? Mind Reading, Memory Suppression & Other Challenges of Neuroscience” as part of the Howard A. Schneiderman Memorial Bioethics Lecture Series.

Glaciers in West Greenland are melting 100 times more rapidly at their end points beneath the ocean than they are at their surfaces, according to a UC Irvine/NASA study.

UC Irvine’s Hans Keirstead will receive the 2010 Mathilde Solowey Lecture Award in the Neurosciences, bestowed annually by the Foundation…

Butterflies that have a duplicate gene allowing them to see ultraviolet colors also have UV-yellow pigment on their wings, reports the study by UCI’s Adriana Briscoe, Seth Bybee and colleagues.

Handheld laser scanner developed at UCI improves detection, diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer.

Anteater Recreation Center celebrates 10th anniversary. Jill Schindele, director of Campus Recreation, says the facility is “different things to different people.”

Cancer patient takes his (hard) hat off to UC Irvine doctors in Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

Butterflies that have a duplicate gene allowing them to see ultraviolet colors also have UV-yellow pigment on their wings, reports the study by UCI’s Adriana Briscoe, Seth Bybee and colleagues.

In his new book, UCI evolutionary biologist John Avise examines why flaws exist in the biological world.