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
In a comparative study spanning 40 years of legislative terms in the U.S., Germany and Sweden, Catherine Bolzendahl, associate professor of sociology at UCI, demonstrates the importance of increasing not just the number of women elected to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, but also the number of them in committee leadership roles to seriously advance gender equality in political institutions and the policies they create.
UC Irvine’s commitment to sustainability won accolades both nationally and globally last week.
UC Irvine will receive $8 million from the National Institutes of Health to establish one of six national centers dedicated to creating a database of human cellular responses that will accelerate efforts to develop new therapies for many diseases.
UCI Chancellor Howard Gillman, graduate and undergraduate students, and representatives from the Campus Assault Resources & Education team signed a pledge Monday, Oct. 6, to take a stand against sexual violence as part of the “It’s On Us” campaign. The initiative launched by President Barack Obama encourages individuals to take a proactive role in ending […]
UCI earthquake expert Lisa Grant Ludwig discusses faults, fallacies and the upcoming preparedness event