Month: March 2014

Graduate school rankings released today by U.S. News & World Report show UC Irvine programs consistently among the top 50 in the nation.

Alumni from three of UCI’s four NCAA championship teams gather for White House celebration

Researchers – including those at UC Irvine – have discovered and validated a blood test that can predict with greater than 90 percent accuracy whether a healthy person will develop mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer’s disease within three years.

Researchers – including those at UC Irvine – have discovered and validated a blood test that can predict with greater than 90 percent accuracy whether a healthy person will develop mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer’s disease within three years.

UC Irvine has pledged to join the Institute of International Education’s Generation Study Abroad initiative to double the number of American students who study abroad by the end of the decade.

Irvine, Calif., March 10, 2014 – A delegation representing UC Irvine’s last three men’s volleyball national championships will join a celebration  honoring NCAA champions at the White House today at approximately 1:15 p.m. PT. The delegation will include Chancellor Michael Drake and Athletics Director Michael Izzi, who will invite the president to be keynote commencement […]

One year of Head Start can make a bigger difference for children from homes where parents provide less early academic stimulation, such as reading to them, encouraging them to recognize and pronounce letters and words, and helping them count. Showing parents how they can assist their children with reading and counting may also be beneficial. Those are the conclusions of a new study by UC Irvine researchers that appears in the current issue of the journal Child Development.

Maria Pantelia, professor and chair of the Department of Classics and director of the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae at UC Irvine, will receive the Theodore Saloutos Award from the American Hellenic Council at its 2014 awards gala on March 22 in downtown Los Angeles.

The American Educational Research Association has named Greg Duncan,  Jacquelynne Eccles and Mark Warschauer as the inaugural editors of AERA Open, a new open-access journal.

The  American Educational Research Association has named Mark Warschauer, UC Irvine professor of education and informatics, one of  22 fellows in recognition of his notable and sustained research achievements.