Month: December 2020

Musicians and medical experts attempt to create new safety protocols for future live events

KABC-TV, Dec. 9, 2020 (Video)

Ariyan Johnson (left) and Cyrian Reed, two new faculty members at the Claire Trevor School of the Arts, both teach hip-hop dance.

Hip-hop gets its props

Two new dance faculty members bring cultural and artistic gravitas to the street genre

UCI researchers develop at-home coronavirus saliva test

Low-cost device includes detection technologies housed in Shrinky Dinks children’s toy

Sea anemones find sweet arrangement with under-skin algae for emergency food source

UCI study offers insights into ways tidepool organisms bond to enhance survival success

Humanities dean Tyrus Miller establishes endowment for distinguished lecture series

Tyrus Miller, dean of the School of Humanities, has pledged $60,000 to establish a new endowment for a distinguished lecture series. The school regularly hosts conversations around today’s grand challenges, ranging from environmental change to advances in medicine and biology and the evolution of powerful new technologies. The Dean’s Distinguished Lecture Series will feature events […]

Megan Peters receives TWCO grant to help consciousness researchers secure funding

Megan Peters, associate professor of cognitive sciences, has received a three-year, $234,000 grant from the Templeton World Charity Organization to enhance and accelerate National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation funding opportunities for consciousness researchers. “This is a complex concept and writing a compelling proposal can be challenging,” Peters says. The project will involve […]

Study offers new approach for more accurate epidemic modeling

Medical Xpress, Dec. 8, 2020

Pacific Symphony Working With UCI Public Health Experts On COVID-19 Plan

Broadway World, Dec. 8, 2020

Will Coronavirus Patients Push Orange County Hospitals to the Edge?

Voice of OC, Dec. 8, 2020

COVID-19: FDA Says Pfizer Vaccine Is Effective, How Hospitals Are Handling Limited Capacity

KPCC, Dec. 8, 2020 (Audio)