Year: 2019

UCI kicks off largest philanthropic campaign in Orange County history

Campus seeks $2 billion for research, healthcare, scholarships, cultural endeavors

'UCI saved my life'

Campaign co-chair credits cancer center for remarkable recovery

Future M.D. is already helping others

Aided by a scholarship, UCI senior Joshua Torosyan mentors, tutors and volunteers

Beating colon cancer with AI

UCI Health applies ‘game changing’ technology to improve screening

The power of partnership

UCI trustee, professor work together to promote diversity in engineering

UCI, other researchers develop deep-learning technique to ID at-risk anatomy in CT scans

Radiation therapy is one of the most widely used cancer treatments, but a drawback of the procedure is that it can cause collateral damage to healthy tissue in proximity to cancerous growths. Identifying organs at risk via CT scans is a difficult and labor-intensive process, but UCI computer scientists and researchers from other institutions have […]

UCI IN THE NEWS

ABC 7, Oct. 1, 2019UC Irvine’s middle school for students with ADHD, autism finds success The school’s curriculum is based on mounds of research from the National Institutes of Health and the University of California. … Students at UC Irvine’s Child Development Center learn more than history and science. “What the program aims to do […]

UCI study identifies brain protein that could put the brakes on Alzheimer's

Discovery of TOM-1 protein role heralds new directions in the disease fight

CNBC, Sept. 28, 2019 The 10 US universities that receive the most applications CNBC Make It recently analyzed 2018 admissions data in order to identify which schools receive the most applications each year. 3. University of California, Irvine Number of applicants: 85,092 Number admitted: 31,063 Number admitted who enrolled: 6,545 Percent of applicants admitted: 36.5% Percent of admitted […]

UCI to collaborate in Department of Energy hub addressing water security issues in U.S.

The U.S. Department of Energy has selected the National Alliance for Water Innovation – a public-private partnership with more than 35 members, including UCI – to lead an energy and desalination hub addressing water security issues in the U.S. The organization will conduct early-stage research and development on energy-efficient and cost-competitive water treatment technologies. “Desalination […]