Month: July 2011

UC Irvine News Brief: UCI doctors receive inaugural Center for Health Quality & Innovation grants

Critical care specialist Dr. Elizabeth Turner was awarded $50,000 to – along with Dr. Chris Fox and Dr. Mark Rosen – implement an educational program on the bedside use of handheld ultrasound.

UC Irvine News Brief: UCI publication named official journal of national EM group

Sponsorship by the American College of Osteopathic Emergency Physicians is expected to raise the visibility of the Department of Emergency Medicine’s “WestJEM.”

Mary Verdi-Fletcher

Redefining dance

Recent M.F.A. grad works to integrate disabled and nondisabled performers.

Thad Domina

Equal opportunity educator

Thad Domina, assistant professor of education, traces the road from high school to college and beyond.

Summer Reading books in sand

Summer syllabus

Summer’s here, and the reading’s easy. So stash the dry textbooks, research tomes and heavier literary works that pile up on the nightstand during the academic year. The latest by David Sedaris? Got it right here with the sunscreen. No. 17 in Janet Evanovich’s epic Stephanie Plum series? It’s in the beach bag. (Hey, don’t […]

Body’s natural marijuana-like chemicals make fatty foods hard to resist

UC Irvine researchers found that dietary fats may trigger a surprising biological mechanism that drives gluttonous behavior. The apparent culprit? Chemicals in the body called endocannabinoids.