Year: 2016

New seafloor mapping techniques help scientists identify high-risk areas

UCI Distinguished Professor Said Elghobashi will receive the Senior Award at the ninth International Conference on Multiphase Flow, to be held next month in Italy. Presented every three years at the conference, the award recognizes an individual’s significant scientific and technical contributions to the field of multiphase flow research, as well as outstanding leadership in scholarship, development […]

UCI mechanical engineer sees tiny solution to big problem

UCI’s Mallory Hinks places second in UC-wide Grad Slam finals

UCI chemists create battery technology with off-the-charts charging capacity

Honor is conferred for distinguished contributions to their fields

Eye-popping Earth Week exhibit shows how far campus is from zero-waste goal

Using cutting-edge imaging technology, UCI biologists have determined that uncontrolled fluctuations (known as “noise”) in the concentration of the vitamin A derivative retinoic acid can lead to disruptions in brain organization during development. Identifying how a cell responds to a signal made by another cell, despite the level of noise present, may improve our understanding […]

A study appearing April 14 in the journal Neuron suggests there may be a new way to change the damaging course of Huntington disease. University of California, Irvine neurobiologists Leslie Thompson and Joseph Ochaba and their colleagues from UCI and from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia have shown that reducing the aberrant accumulation of a particular form of the […]

UCI-led study shows that self-regulation of e-cigarette industry isn’t working