Month: October 2015

UCI-led Team Orange County puts finishing touches on its entry in global competition to design, build best zero-net-energy home

Nobel Prize recipient Mario Molina returns to UCI to talk about the history of climate change science

Results suggest greater emphasis on managing slumber habits of people with AD risk

UCI’s first undocumented medical student, Oscar Hernandez is determined to serve the Latino community

Mentoring program pairs new students with upperclassmen who also are first in their families to go to college

It was the winter of 1964, and James McGaugh already had what he considered a dream job. He’d earned a doctorate in psychology at UC Berkeley in 1959, taught for a few years at San Jose State College, done some postdoctoral work in Rome for a year, and then landed at the University of Oregon […]

UCI study uncovers role of oxytocin in triggering marijuana-like neurotransmitters

EVENT: U.S. Treasurer Rosie Rios, the driving force behind plans to put a woman on the new $10 bill, will talk about currency redesign and answer questions in an appearance at UCI. WHEN/WHERE: 4:30-5:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 29, Room 1517, Social & Behavioral Sciences Gateway (bldg. 214, grid F9 and F10 on campus map: http://communications.uci.edu//documents/pdf/UCI_14_map_campus_core.pdf) […]

I have always felt fortunate to have been in UCI’s first four-year class. For the first few years, the campus was wild. When I looked out the window of my dorm room, I’d often see roadrunners. And when walking in the nearby hills, I saw a bobcat, a golden eagle and cactus wrens. I also […]

Enrique Lavernia helps set campus on new strategic course, guided by lifelong belief in power of higher education