Year: 2012

Year brings scientific advances, national accolades, international outreach, student achievement and loss of campus stalwarts

Joyce Keyak, a UC Irvine professor in residence of radiological sciences, is part of a NASA effort to understand more about bone density loss during astronauts’ lengthy stays aboard the International Space Station.

A groundbreaking study involving Bruce Blumberg, UCI professor of developmental & cell biology, outlines a safety testing system that helps chemists design inherently safer chemicals and processes.

UCI’s first law school grads pass the bar and are sworn in as California attorneys

Wildfire risk will grow due to climate change, new research finds, but unhealthy controlled burns for farming are the leading type of blaze in the U.S.  UC Irvine Earth system scientist Hsiao-Wen Lin found that such fires have increased by 30% nationally in the past decade, mostly in the south. Thanks to stricter air pollution regulations, California, Oregon and Washington have slashed their agricultural burn rates though.

Fulbright scholar hopes to foster safe recycling, disposal of outdated electronics

UCI economist discusses potential impact of falling off ‘fiscal cliff’

Dr. Ulrike Luderer, UCI associate professor of medicine, has been appointed to the state Developmental & Reproductive Toxicant Identification Committee.

Brian Cummings and Aileen Anderson of UCI’s Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center are among this year’s “Hottest 25 People in O.C.,” a designation conferred annually by OC Metro, Orange County’s leading business magazine.

Fifteen UCI undergraduates participating in the School of Biological Sciences’ Minority Science Programs received 21 awards for their research presentations at the 2012 ABRCMS meeting.