Year: 2016

Clinical effort aims to personalize treatment, improve care and outcomes

The origins of chronic disease, preconception risk factors for newborn health and generational links to health disparities are a few of the public health issues that UCI assistant professor of sociology Jennifer Kane hopes to tackle using information gleaned from a new database in progress. Funded by the National Institutes of Health, the $430,000 project will allow […]

UCI scientist uses bioluminescence to shed light on multicellular interactions

The U.S. Department of Energy recently awarded a UCI research team $3 million over three years to explore how drought affects microbes in surface soil that are vital to plant life and to the exchange of carbon dioxide – a greenhouse gas – among the Earth’s oceans, plants, soil and air. Steven Allison, associate professor of […]

Veteran-alumnus to speak at UCI on the toll of trauma

New programs guide a changing student population to success

Veteran and social sciences alumnus Aaron Anderson knows how to thrive no matter what life throws his way

Founder of Earth system science department was also physical sciences dean, NAS head

World-class exhibit space planned on campus to house the $17 million collection

Recent research suggests that the ability to delay immediate gratification is associated with less frequent consumption of fast food. Away-from-home eating – fast food in particular – is a known contributor to America’s obesity epidemic. “Study results show that insights from behavioral economics – in particular, our ability to delay gratification – may explain why some individuals find it […]