Month: June 2012

UC Irvine’s provost accepts position as University of Oregon president

Respected leader oversaw explosive campus growth, maintained commitment to quality.

47th commencement is season of firsts

Undergraduate business majors, Cal Teach grads and new traditions are highlights.

Social justice movement Ageless Alliance to be launched at White House, UCI

UC Irvine elder abuse experts launch campaign to unite generations against physical, financial and emotional neglect of vulnerable adults.

UCI radiology researcher to see if mammography can reveal heart disease risk

Sabee Molloi and a research scientist from Kaiser Permanente will assess possible cardiac correlation with breast arterial calcification.

UCI, Australian university to create broadband medical education link

The two institutions will be able to hold joint classes and simulation training sessions despite a geographical separation of almost 7,500 miles.

UCI researchers create mosquitoes incapable of transmitting malaria

UC Irvine vector biologist Anthony James and colleagues have produced a model of the Anopheles stephensi mosquito – a major source of malaria in India and the Middle East – that impairs the development of the malaria parasite.

Global warming could release carbon from forest soils

Vast amounts of additional carbon would warm the atmosphere even more, leading to escalation of climate change.

Eli Simon

‘Shakespeare Under the Stars’

Twelve-night midsummer festival is fulfillment of drama department’s 20-year dream.

Mary Gilly

Marking their territory

Anyone who frequents a Starbucks at UC Irvine has seen them: customers who camp out at coveted tables. They mark their territory with papers, backpacks, computers and coffee cups. They wear ear buds to discourage conversation and toss their jackets over empty chairs to keep interlopers from invading their space. Some hunker down with their […]

No. 2 pencil not required

End-of-year exams, projects can take unorthodox forms.