Year: 2011

New UCI study finds minority dropout rates decrease when more fathers are incarcerated.

UCI’s new Orange County Center for Community Health Research provides a framework for community-based groups to organize their own research on issues – such as childhood obesity, diabetes and poverty – that affect populations they serve.

As her studies of prison violence, hate crimes and prostitution show, Valerie Jenness is drawn to the gritty side of life.

By providing students with technological devices such as iPads and portable ultrasounds, UC Irvine School of Medicine is revolutionizing the way healthcare is taught. For the future doctors, such tools could one day be as standard as the stethoscope.

UCI Professor Diane O’Dowd and others argue science teaching is not properly valued.

An innovative undergraduate course, “Disparities in Medicine,” addresses diversity and how healthcare workers can embrace patients’ distinctive cultural beliefs, languages and faiths to provide better care.

Students earn Living Our Values Award for launching UCI Global Brigades, which aims to improve the lives of Hondurans through hands-on projects.

Flash mob presentation of UC Irvine fight song kicks off week of activities leading up to Saturday, Jan. 22, homecoming.

The senior forward – who earned third-team All-America honors after leading the Anteaters to the NCAA Sweet 16 – is a fourth-round pick of the Boston Breakers.

The Louise Turner Arnold Chair in the Neurosciences will talk about the drug’s effects on the brain and potential medicinal uses. The program airs at 8 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 16.