Month: August 2022

90% of people who lose sense of smell or taste from COVID-19 regain it within 2 years

Healthline, Aug. 10, 2022

Long COVID recovery is finally getting the attention it deserves in the US

Popular Science, Aug. 10, 2022

Figuring out the impacts of Long Covid on Orange County residents

Voice of OC, Aug. 9, 2022

UCI chancellor meets with Vice President Kamala Harris

At White House event, Howard Gillman discusses challenges facing U.S. universities in wake of Roe v. Wade overturn

Students in a classroom, Military veterans participate in a Warrior-Scholar Project academic boot camp.

UCI hosts Warrior-Scholar Project boot camp for fourth year

Summer program prepares transitioning military veterans for college

COVID test identifies variants with 100% accuracy

Futurity, Aug. 8, 2022

OC’s innovators: UCI’s Felgner: COVID research helps other illness studies

Orange County Business Journal, Aug. 8, 2022

Study shows how restoring overstocked forests can yield multiple, diverse benefits

Mechanical thinning of California’s forests can reduce the severity of wildfires by eliminating built-up vegetation that fuels blazes. According to researchers at UCI, UC Merced and the UC Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, scientifically based forest management practices could also curtail CO2 emissions from fires, promote carbon storage in remaining trees, and improve the […]

UCI undergrad advocates for equitable climate solutions before the New Zealand Parliament

Jonpaul Cohen, a native New Zealander who has family on the Pacific islands of Samoa and Tuvalu, is passionate about protecting Polynesian culture, lives and livelihoods from the ravages of climate change. In a presentation to an environmental committee of the New Zealand Parliament on Aug. 4, the UCI undergraduate majoring in psychology advocated for […]

COVID may be tied to rise in brain infections in children

HealthDay, Aug. 5, 2022