Month: August 2015

Ancient Chinese practice lowers blood pressure, may lessen stroke, heart disease risks

I have been going to UCI ever since I was a little kid. My dad, Jose Perez, is director of the Multimedia Resources Center at the Ayala Science Library and has worked on campus for 25 years. For as long as I can remember, he has taken me to events like Celebrate UCI and book […]

Researchers from the University of California, Irvine and NASA have uncovered a remarkably strong link between high wildfire risk in the Amazon basin and the devastating hurricanes that ravage North Atlantic shorelines. The climate scientists’ findings appear in the journal Geophysical Research Letters near the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s calamitous August 2005 landfall at New Orleans.

Study by UCI sociologist is first to tie low natal weight to biological, social factors three generations deep

Participants are sought for safety study on the use of retinal progenitors in the eye

By the time he was 6, Rene Amel Peralta was already working full time in construction and odds jobs in Mexico, just trying to survive. By 13, he and his sister had been abandoned by their only parent and had made the treacherous journey across the border. But without immigration papers or an education, poverty […]

Campus is first in Sierra magazine’s green schools ranking for second year in a row

Campus is first in Sierra magazine’s green schools ranking for second year in a row

Incoming freshmen share what they like best about UCI and why they’re excited to be starting this chapter of their lives

Novel detection method co-developed at UCI ensures that drinking water sources are not compromised by algae blooms