Year: 2020

New course helps engineers understand the effects of human activity on a changing coastline

Community involvement, high-resolution maps lead to improved risk management

In a discovery that has implications for our understanding of the air we breathe, UCI chemists report that they’ve found nanoscale fragments of fungal cells in the atmosphere. The pieces are extremely small, measuring about 30 nanometers in diameter, and much more abundant than previously thought, the researchers say in a study published this week […]

UCI research suggests expanding amblyopia treatment approaches

UCI astronomer Paul Robertson recently celebrated “first light” for NEID, a new exoplanet hunting instrument he helped develop. Installed at the 3.5-meter WIYN telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona’s Sonoran Desert, NEID is an extremely precise radial velocity spectrometer. Its initial observations were of 51 Pegasi, a sunlike star that, in 1995, was […]

UCI epidemiologist helps eliminate the disease in global hot spots by breaking down barriers to healthcare

EVENT: UCI will celebrate the upcoming Lunar New Year – heralding the Year of the Rat – with an academic discussion, multicultural entertainment, artistic demonstrations, interactive workshops, a Disney-sponsored raffle, lion and dragon parades, food, a laser light show and more. WHEN/WHERE: 2-6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 21, at the Multipurpose Academic & Administrative Building (bldg. […]

Retaliation comes naturally to children, while positive reciprocity must be learned, says UCI cognitive scientist

Perception of high status is linked to easier transition to adulthood, UCI-led study finds

Professor Geoffrey Abbott discusses the molecular mechanism behind some botanical folk medicines