Month: September 2021

Much is still a mystery to health experts in the path to fight against COVID-19

KCBS Radio, Sept. 23, 2021 (Audio)

Here’s why Hawaii is a model for identifying pandemic racial disparities

Honolulu Civil Beat, Sept. 23, 2021

UCI receives 5-year, $5 million CIRM award for training of diverse researchers

Program will prepare leaders in stem cell biology, gene therapy and regenerative medicine

FDA authorizes boosters of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for older adults and others at high risk from COVID-19

Business Insider, Sept. 22, 2021

Santa Ana may create its own health department given COVID coverage gaps from county

Voice of OC, Sept. 22, 2021

UCI informatics professors relaunch center on computer games, learning and society

Research to focus on interactive media in politically tumultuous, post-pandemic time

New research “sniffs out” how associative memories are formed

UCI-led team is first to discover how the brain creates memories of delicious smells

UCI Esports celebrates 5-year anniversary with fall kickoff event

EVENT:  UCI Esports will celebrate its five-year anniversary with a fall kickoff open house. In September of 2016, UCI established the first college esports program at a public university. The event will chronicle the program’s first five years and set the course for the next five. There will be free play in the arena and […]

Stacy Branham, a UCI assistant professor of informatics

UCI’s Stacy Branham highlighted on Popular Science Brilliant 10 list

Informatics innovator creates useful technologies with and for people with disabilities

Orange County ‘dodged a Labor Day-fueled surge’

Spectrum News 1 (City News Service), Sept. 21, 2021