Year: 2011

Gates Foundation grant supports research on monetary practices in developing nations.

Dr. Zeev Kain, professor and chair of anesthesiology & perioperative care, led the first-ever study of chronic postoperative pain in children. Out of 113 youngsters studied, 13 percent reported pain that lingered for months.

The clinical professor and director of medical physics in UC Irvine’s Department of Radiation Oncology and at the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center is one of 39 people nationwide selected as Educators of the Year.

Art aficionados can retrace Barbara T. Smith’s journey from Pasadena homemaker to performance art pioneer at UC Irvine’s University Art Gallery, which is hosting “The Radicalization of a ’50s Housewife” through Dec. 4. Featuring paintings, drawings, sculpture, personal letters and a video installation, the exhibit is a tribute to Smith’s seminal 1981 work “Birthdaze,” which […]

Chemist Larry Overman, who helped develop the acclaimed department, loves teaching as much as reassembling molecules.

Claire Trevor Professor of Drama Robert Cohen to be feted with festival, theater renamed in his honor.

Computer science professor Padhraic Smyth and colleagues have received two multiyear grants to develop new models and algorithms.

The Ranger rifleman, who earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 2009, was on his first deployment.

Dr. William E. Bunney, Distinguished Professor of psychiatry & human behavior at UC Irvine’s School of Medicine, has been awarded the prestigious Institute of Medicine’s 2011 Rhoda & Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health for his work enhancing the treatment and understanding of mood disorders.

Renowned UCI geneticist and vineyard owner Francisco Ayala donates $10 million to campus.