Month: July 2011

Professor of the Year Caesar Sereseres

Making the grade

Celebration of Teaching and Excellence in Leadership awards honor faculty and staff.

A single potato chip held up

The potato chip predicament

UC Irvine researchers found that fats in foods like potato chips and french fries make them nearly irresistible and trigger a surprising biological mechanism that likely drives our gluttonous behavior.

Port-wine stain masters

The Beckman Laser Institute & Medical Clinic at UC Irvine is home to one of the nation’s elite research and treatment centers for vascular birthmarks.

Sustainability series

Newkirk Center event at UCI will bring 70 emerging leaders from 20 countries to focus on global water issues.

UC Irvine News Brief: Fan-Gang Zeng named director of Center for Hearing Research

The internationally renowned researcher in the treatment of hearing disorders plans to boost the center’s intellectual contributions and profile by enhancing translational research, promoting student involvement and building community support.

Stem cells restore cognitive abilities impaired by brain cancer treatment

UCI study by radiology oncologist Charles Limoli suggests transplantation of human neural stem cells can alleviate side effects of radiotherapy.

UCI study points to new means of overcoming antiviral resistance in influenza

UC Irvine researchers have found a new approach to the creation of customized therapies for virulent flu strains that resist current antiviral drugs.

Gladson and Cooley visit the new orphanage in India

Blueprint for hope

Compared to the hospitals, research labs, university buildings and other important structures Rebekah Gladson has designed as campus architect and associate vice chancellor of UC Irvine, an orphanage in India might seem like a small, insignificant project. Not to her. For Gladson, whose visionary buildings have earned her the Design-Build Institute of America’s Brunelleschi Lifetime Achievement […]

Jessica and Riley Pratt climb a tree

Putting down roots in the tropics

Generous alumni gift guarantees UCI access to tropical studies program.

UCI cardiologists offer patients safer, more comfortable angioplasty option

They lead effort to train other physicians in radial artery catheterization.