Month: January 2011

UC Irvine News Brief: Elizabeth Cauffman awarded $3.8 million for study of juvenile offenders

Associate professor of psychology & social behavior and education will use funding from the MacArthur Foundation and the federal Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention to determine which youths – in the future – could be diverted from formal processing.

UC Irvine News Brief: Four UCI professors named AAAS fellows

Frank LaFerla, Hamid Jafarkhani, Diane Campbell and Bert Semler were elected to the world’s largest general scientific society for distinguished contributions to their fields.

UC Irvine News Brief: Famiglietti named Geological Society of America distinguished lecturer

Earth system science professor will undertake worldwide speaking tour.

UC Irvine News Brief: American Mathematical Society honors UCI professor for research

Gunther Uhlmann wins 2011 Maxime Bocher Memorial Prize for work on inverse problems, boundary rigidity and cloaking.

Neumark Incarceration

Married, two-parent households not always best for children, UCI researcher concludes.

High marks in class, on ice

Undergraduate earns high marks in figure skating competitions and in school. Elegant on the ice, she could be on her way to Olympic glory.

Tracking precipitation planetwide

Team creates online maps used by foreign countries to predict – and prepare for – intense rainfall.

Dr. Henry Klassen

Unlocking stem cells’ potential to cure eye disease

Dr. Henry Klassen is discovering new ways to use stem cells to repair the retina, offering new hope for people suffering from retinitis pigmentosa and macular degeneration.

The mainstreaming of black politics

New book by UCI professor Katherine Tate examines factors behind burgeoning ranks of African Americans in Congress.

UC Irvine News Brief: UCI's Jun Wu wins $450,000 air pollution research award

The assistant professor of public health & epidemiology will probe links to adverse birth outcomes.