EVENT: What is the Ebola virus? How does it spread? What’s being done to stop the current epidemic? What are the chances of the virus spreading to the U.S. more than it has already? What will be the economic impact of Ebola on West Africa and the world? Are local hospitals ready for an imported […]
Ambitious new leader of UCI student body relishes his role as an advocate for undergrads by promoting voter registration and participation
Irvine, Calif., Oct. 16, 2014 – A new program designed to expose students in all majors to the artistic experience and strengthen UC Irvine’s connection with regional arts and cultural institutions is taking shape on campus at the direction of Chancellor Howard Gillman, Ph.D. Illuminations, the Chancellor’s Arts & Culture Initiative, will prepare students to […]
Anthony James will give the Francisco J. Ayala School of Biological Sciences Dean’s Distinguished Lecture, focusing on the novel, genetics-based strategies that he and others have designed to target mosquitoes as part of a worldwide campaign to wipe out malaria.
Irvine, Calif., Oct. 14, 2014 – Imagine a low-cost, disposable breath analysis device that a person with cystic fibrosis could use at home along with a smartphone to immediately detect a lung infection, much like the device police use to gauge a driver’s blood alcohol level. Timely knowledge of a lung infection would let people […]
Irvine, Calif., Oct. 13, 2014 – UC Irvine’s new Interdisciplinary Center on Family Violence, which unites community partners with faculty from 20 UCI departments, will host a launch event 1:30-4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 17, at the Delhi Center, 505 E. Central Ave., in Santa Ana. By bringing together expertise in biological and physical sciences, engineering, […]
Your smartphone could become part of the world’s largest telescope. A team led by UC Irvine physicist Daniel Whiteson and UC Davis physicist Michael Mulhearn has designed an app to turn the global network of smartphones into a planet-sized cosmic ray detector, according to a paper posted today to the physics website arXiv.
The National Institutes of Health’s National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute has awarded UCI biomedical engineer Zhongping Chen a four-year $2.6 million grant to build a better imaging system for detecting plaque buildup inside arteries.
A UCI psychiatric researcher is playing a key role in a global initiative to analyze data acquired from the human brain. Theo van Erp, assistant professor of psychiatry & human behavior, is co-chair of the schizophrenia working group for the Enhancing Neuro Imaging Genetics Through Meta-Analysis project.
Melissa King ’05 packs up her knives and competes in Bravo’s popular reality television show