Year: 2019

Loan Le, a UCI senior in pharmaceutical sciences.

Seeking to serve the poor

Aided by scholarship, transfer student prepares to ‘bring a better quality of healthcare to underserved populations’

Jennifer Martiny, UCI professor of ecology and evolutionary biology (front), and Katrine Whiteson, UCI assistant professor of molecular biology and biochemistry

UCI biologists spearhead creation of Microbiome Centers Consortium

New network aims to share strategies, accelerate knowledge

Joan Irvine Smith passes away

Philanthropist played central role in UCI’s founding, growth

UCI biologist Adriana Briscoe

UCI butterfly expert’s advocacy for Hispanic scientists takes wing with award

Adriana Briscoe receives the 2020 University Faculty Award

Greenland ice loss is at ‘worse-case scenario’ levels, study finds

UCI glaciologists play key roles on international assessment team

Shane Coffield, UCI grad student in Earth System Science

Taming wildfires

UCI-created AI tool for predicting blaze size proves successful in Alaska; team now focuses on California

UCI-led team releases high-precision map of Antarctic ice sheet bed topography

New findings will help scientists predict climate change impact on frozen continent

UCI engineering team creates biocatalyst for microbial production of useful commodities

Scientists have demonstrated that – in labs – microbes can be used as tiny biological factories to produce fuels, pharmaceutical drugs and other commodities from renewable resources. But achieving output on a commercially viable scale has proven elusive. A key barrier has been so-called cofactors – biocatalysts that spur enzymatic activity in cells – as […]

Carol Choi ’85 and Eugene Choi ’86, MBA ’01 – recipients of UCI’s 2020 Extraordinarius award

Alumni couple Carol and Eugene Choi to receive UCI’s Extraordinarius award

Entrepreneur-philanthropists will be among 22 honorees at 50th Lauds & Laurels event

Louise Nicole Ives

Committed to community

Scholarship support helped recent UCI graduate prepare for life of service