Month: May 2014

Departing leader is lauded for upholding the highest ideals of a university education

Dr. Paul Rosenblit, UC Irvine clinical professor of medicine, was elected president of the Pacific Lipid Association at the annual scientific sessions of the National Lipid Association, held May 1–4 in Orlando, Fla.

UCI research team pioneers imaging technique that clearly reveals structure, individual chemical bonds

Michael Pritchard, UCI assistant professor of Earth system science, and Jenny Yang, UCI assistant professor of chemistry, are among 35 individuals selected from 750 applicants to receive funding under the U.S. Department of Energy’s Early Career Research Program.

TEDxUCIrvine, set for May 31, will explore ‘The Adventure of Discovery’

New director of UCI’s Center for Psychology & Law wants social, legal policies to reflect limitations of adolescent brain development

Greenland’s icy reaches are far more vulnerable to warm ocean waters from climate change than had been thought, according to new research by UC Irvine and NASA glaciologists. The work, published today in Nature Geoscience, shows previously uncharted deep valleys stretching for dozens of miles under the Greenland Ice Sheet.

New Chao center director Rick Van Etten focuses on boosting patient treatments, access

Mice crippled by an autoimmune disease similar to multiple sclerosis regained the ability to walk and run after a team of researchers led by scientists at UC Irvine, the Scripps Research Institute and University of Utah implanted human stem cells into their injured spinal cords. The mice started walking a couple of weeks after implantation, […]

Xiaoqing Pan, an internationally recognized researcher in the physics of materials, will join the UC Irvine faculty and lead a $20 million initiative to establish a world-class electron microscopy and materials science research facility.