Month: June 2019

Collaborative artworks interact with viewers through artificial intelligence

EVENT: UCI will host commencement services for its 54th graduating class over four days in the Bren Events Center. Between Friday, June 14, and Monday, June 17, 11 ceremonies will take place – with UCI awarding 10,323 undergraduate degrees to 9,403 Anteaters – featuring addresses by renowned leaders in business, technology and science. WHEN/WHERE: June […]

DACA student overcomes fear to become outspoken advocate for others

Matthew P. Canepa has been installed as the Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Presidential Chair in Art History & Archaeology of Ancient Iran within UCI’s Department of Art History and Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies and affiliated with the campus’s Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies & Culture. Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute, a private foundation that […]

Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, UCI astronomers have identified a galaxy with an unexpectedly high amount of dark matter at its core. Descended from a family of galaxies called “red nuggets” that formed relatively soon after the Big Bang but were stalled in their growth about 10 billion years ago, Markarian 1216 has […]

She led campus during era of impressive growth in national recognition, academic quality

Claudia Benavente, an assistant professor of pharmaceutical sciences and developmental & cell biology at UCI, has received a $2.1 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to develop a novel therapeutic treatment for osteosarcoma. Her research aims to explain the role of the chromatin remodeling protein UHRF1 as a potential target in the treatment of […]

Longtime administrator has unmatched history of supporting school’s student-athletes

Fabrication could help unlock new quantum computing and energy technologies

UCI-led stem cell study sets stage for human testing