Month: June 2010

Two vice chancellors with deep roots at UCI reflect on their careers, forecast their futures.

The Chancellor’s Professor of criminology, law & society was named a Thorsten Sellin Fellow in recognition of her research on immigration law and policy.

Grad student Chris Stout studies discrepancy between what voters say and do.

A UCI research team is studying Down syndrome adults to learn why – and when – cognitive decline is triggered by Alzheimer’s disease.

Commencement is appropriate time to do a by-the-numbers review of the academic year at UC Irvine.

UCI’s automated bike-sharing system was selected by editors of Campus Technology magazine as one of 11 programs to be honored out of almost 500 entries.

Sunny Jiang, a UC Irvine researcher studying pollution in Orange County’s coastal waters, recently got a graphic look at how swimming and surfing in the ocean can make people sick. She and a team of graduate students charted incidents of poor water quality at Southern California beaches over a 10-year period and the number of […]

On a clear spring day at Crystal Cove State Park, UC Irvine professor William Cooper and undergraduate Tova Handelman sift though a mound of seaweed and sand, oblivious to the curious stares of beachgoers. They’re too busy studying trash. “Look at all this plastic!” says Cooper, picking out a pellet no bigger than a grain […]

By discovering how adult neural stem cells navigate to injury sites in the central nervous system, UC Irvine researchers have helped solve a puzzle in the creation of stem cell-based treatments: How do these cells know where to go?

University efforts to combat problem include research, forensic center and geriatrics guide.