Month: August 2022

Students face mask mandates this fall

Campus Reform, Aug. 4, 2022

The UCI cross-disciplinary graduate student team won first place in Phase 1 of the EPA’s Environmental Justice Video Challenge for Students, in which they revealed the lead soil contamination threat in Santa Ana. (From left: Annika Hjelmstad, Ashley Green, David Bañuelas, Tim Schütz, Ariane Jong, and Alexis Guerra.)

UCI takes first place in EPA Environmental Justice Video Challenge for Students

Cross-disciplinary graduate student team reveals lead soil contamination threat in Santa Ana

Astrophysicist Gregory Benford

Addressing climate change: plants instead of plants?

Rather than an industrial solution to excess atmospheric carbon dioxide, a retired UCI physicist looks to nature

Newly developed COVID-19 test detects and identifies specific variants with 100% accuracy

Phys.org, Aug. 3, 2022

Colleges scale back Covid precautions for fall, saying pandemic phase over

The Wall Street Journal, Aug. 3, 2022

John Chaput

UCI-developed COVID-19 test detects, identifies specific variants with 100% accuracy

RNA-based method advances personalized medicine for improved patient care

A sparrow in a willow tree

Putting the squeeze on Orange County

The literary journal ‘Citric Acid’ explores the dichotomy of OC life

Biden covid case highlights confusing CDC guidance on ending isolation

The Washington Post, Aug. 1, 2022

Is it luck or something else? How never COVID ‘Novids’ have avoided COVID-19

Healthline, Aug. 1, 2022

Susan and Henry Samueli

UCI receives $4 million matching gift for Center for Jewish Studies

Donation from Susan and Henry Samueli to advance research, combat antisemitism