UCI study finds dramatic increase in concurrent droughts, heat waves
Researchers use unique statistical analysis to identify dual climate threat
August 31, 2015
Month: August 2015
Hydrological hat trick
UCI water and drought expert Amir AghaKouchak gets work published in three major journals within two weeks
August 31, 2015
Better than biopsies
UCI’s Dr. Petra Wilder-Smith has pioneered the use of laser technology to noninvasively detect and treat oral cancers
August 31, 2015
UCI's Institute for Clinical & Translational Science gets $19 million from NIH
Irvine, Calif., Aug. 26, 2015 — The Institute for Clinical & Translational Science at the University of California, Irvine will receive $19 million over four years from the National Institutes of Health to continue speeding the transformation of scientific discoveries into medical advances for patients. The grant is a continuation of the Clinical & Translational […]
August 26, 2015
Hot, dry and human-caused
UCI and other scientists say Californians must learn to live within the state’s new climate
August 26, 2015
An amazing coincidence
In 1960, the Irvine Company sold 1,000 acres of land to the University of California for $1 that would become the site of UC Irvine. The land was not the regents’ first choice for the new campus. They preferred a plot on the slopes of Spyglass Hill [in Corona del Mar] that now includes the […]
August 25, 2015
Photo exhibition at UCI commemorates 10-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina
EVENT: “Blood in the Water: A Katrina Remembrance” is an exhibit of photographs taken shortly after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, in particular New Orleans, in 2005. The photos are by Jon Hughes, photojournalist and professor of English & journalism at the University of Cincinnati, and are curated – with accompanying commentary – by New […]
August 25, 2015
UCI's top junior
Aldrich Scholarship recipient Amy He makes social sciences – and her single, immigrant mom – proud
August 24, 2015
2-year-olds with larger oral vocabularies enter kindergarten better prepared than their peers
Children with better academic and behavioral functioning when they start kindergarten often have better educational and societal opportunities as they grow up. For instance, children entering kindergarten with higher reading and math achievements are more likely to go to college, own homes, be married and live in higher-income neighborhoods as adults. A new study points to the […]
August 20, 2015
UCI-OC Parks exhibition celebrates diversity of Vietnamese American experience
EVENT: UCI’s Vietnamese American Oral History Project and OC Parks present “Vietnamese Focus: Generations of Stories,” an interactive art and history exhibition that captures the compelling and complex Vietnamese experience before, during and after the Vietnam War. Utilizing photos, documents, oral histories, artifacts and artwork, the eight-month exhibition commemorates the 40th anniversary of the fall […]
August 19, 2015