Month: July 2021

COVID-19 vaccines reduced daily case rates among health care workers at a California hospital by 94% three weeks after they got their second dose

Daily Mail, July 8, 2021

Orange County’s rising COVID-19 statistics concern UCI professor

Spectrum News 1 (City News Service), July 7, 2021

Jonathan Watanabe, University of California, Irvine – COVID-19 medications

NPR – Academic Minute, July 7, 2021 (Podcast)

says Joyce Yu-Chia Lee, UCI clinical professor of health sciences and an advanced practice pharmacist

UCI professor receives American College of Clinical Pharmacy award

Joyce Yu-Chia Lee is the first faculty member to earn the prestigious honor

UCI team gets $1 million Keck Foundation grant to develop tools for RNA observation

A multidisciplinary team of UCI professors has received a $1 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to develop new molecular tools to identify ribonucleic acids essential in learning and memory formation. “Our project involves building luminescent RNA molecules, allowing us to observe their position and activity in the brain of a living, learning mouse,” […]

John Tracy, Ph.D. ’87 standing in front of a plane.

Alum’s philanthropy helps others follow in his footsteps

Former Boeing executive John Tracy funds scholarship for underrepresented UCI students in STEM fields

Largescale wetlands construction seen as effective treatment for farm runoff

UCI, U. of Kansas and U. of Minnesota experts model Mississippi Basin water quality

Quelling COVID-19 also capped Clostridium difficile—will it continue?

AJMC, July 6, 2021 (Audio)

Orange County sees uptick in COVID-19 statistics

Spectrum News 1 (City News Service), July 6, 2021

Orange County boasts 70% vaccination rate for adults, but herd immunity is still elusive

Los Angeles Times, July 6, 2021