Day: June 13, 2021

#AnteaterCrossing wins national awards

UCI Land, an animated, Anteater-themed island created for Nintendo’s popular Animal Crossing video game series, has won a 2021 Bronze Anvil award from the Public Relations Society of America and a 2021 Circle of Excellence award from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. Also known as #AnteaterCrossing, UCI Land debuted last fall as […]

Pandemic restrictions will largely vanish this week. Politics? Or science?

Orange County Register, June 13, 2021

UCI researchers win funding to shed light on interactions between metabolism, immunity

The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group has named two UCI researchers as Allen Distinguished Investigators. Michelle Digman, associate professor of biomedical engineering, and Jennifer Prescher, professor of chemistry, were among 10 academic experts chosen this year to explore the relationship between metabolism and the human immune system. The UCI scientists were made co-principal investigators on […]