Day: May 11, 2021

UCI researchers win $2 million NIH grant to develop biologic implant for spinal facet joints

The National Institutes of Health has awarded $2 million to researchers in UCI’s Henry Samueli School of Engineering to develop a biologic implant for the spinal facet joint. This grant, given to a team led by Kyriacos Athanasiou, Henry Samueli Chair in Engineering and Distinguished Professor of biomedical engineering, will be the first to focus […]

UCI biomedical engineer Ronke Olabisi sitting next to a microscope.

Helping humans heal

UCI biomedical engineer is working on a cell regenerative therapy with potential applications in chronic wounds, burns and aging

Orange County moves closer to yellow tier in COVID reopening plan

Spectrum News 1 (City News Service), May 11, 2021

Hundreds in Orange County protest COVID vaccine passports: ‘You’re not going to brand us’

Los Angeles Times, May 11, 2021

Why China and east Asia’s ageing population threatens global Covid recovery

The Guardian, May 11, 2021

Emily Penner, UCI assistant professor of education and William T. Grant Scholar.

Emily Penner among 5 early-career US researchers named William T. Grant Scholars

UCI assistant professor of education seeks to advance high school ethnic studies teaching