Month: September 2019

UCI team uses machine learning to help tell which wildfires will burn out of control

New technique could help authorities conduct triage in multiple-blaze scenarios

UCI Law helping 200-plus immigrants apply for citizenship

Students, faculty and staff to participate in 2nd Annual Day of Service at the Mega Citizenship Fair Event on Sept. 21

UCI receives NSF grant to create and test interactive videos to foster children’s science learning

Conversational agent will be incorporated into a pilot study on a new PBS KIDS animated program

UCI Center for Critical Korean Studies to present Korean hip-hop conference, concert

EVENT:  Presented by the UCI Center for Critical Korean Studies and Hyundai Motor America, the Korean Hip-Hop and New Explorations of Afro-Asian Identity Conference will bring together the world’s foremost Korean, Korean American and African American studies scholars working on hip-hop. Enriching academic talks on campus will be accompanied by the first Afro-Korean Hip-Hop Festival, […]

UCI move-in weekend starts Friday, Sept. 20

Campus leadership on hand to help students and families

UCI scientists project northward expansion of Valley fever by end of 21st century

Climate change expected to accelerate spread of sometimes-fatal fungal infection

Frederic Jameson

Fredric Jameson donates personal, professional papers to UCI Libraries

Collection details the scholar’s illustrious career in critical theory

UCI engineers receive NSF grant to develop biosensors for measuring neurotransmitters

UCI engineers have received $1 million from the National Science Foundation to design integrative approaches for measuring real-time brain activity during social interactions in sleep-disrupted animal models. Early-life sleep disruption has been shown to affect the development of complex social behaviors in prairie voles, the studied model, impairing social bonding in a manner similar to […]

Tom Andriola is named UCI vice chancellor of information technology and data

New role to employ technology and data to mobilize knowledge and drive innovation

Cao Glass Image

UCI-led team sheds light on mechanisms governing the rheology of glassy materials

Commonplace in both natural and man-made components, glassy materials have a microscopically disordered structure. In many solid substances and crystals, atoms are bonded together in an orderly fashion, like stacked cannonballs, but atoms and molecules in varieties of glass are positioned in an amorphous jumble, as they are in liquids. Penghui Cao, UCI assistant professor […]