Month: May 2023

UC Irvine-led interdisciplinary team delves into a heated debate about humidity

Under climate change, moist heat stress is expected to worsen public health outcomes

Brandy Lipton, Associate Professor of Health, Society, & Behavior

UC Irvine-led study finds Medicaid telemedicine coverage boosted use, healthcare access

Results could inform state policymakers’ post-pandemic decision-making efforts

Katy Rodriguez Wimberly (left) and Manuel Paul (right).

Fulfilling the promise

UCI Cal-Bridge graduates secure state higher-education faculty positions

Cassandra Coblentz, guest curator of Langson IMCA’s upcoming exhibition “Indefinitely Wild: Preserving California’s Natural Resources,” admires Detlef Sammann’s 1915 “Del Monte Forest.”

‘Indefinitely Wild’

Art exhibition contrasts pristine California landscapes with reality of development

Emma Rosandich, Andrea Valentini, Elizabeth Hafen, Provost Hal Stern, and Owen Trimble (not pictured: John Robb and Michelle Wei)

UC Irvine announces 2023-24 Fulbright students

The University of California, Irvine has announced five Fulbright U.S. Student Program award recipients for 2023-24: William Dunkel, a Ph.D. candidate in informatics; Elizabeth Hafen, a senior in psychology and political science; Owen Trimble, a senior in mechanical engineering; Emma Rosandich, a senior in urban studies; and Michelle Wei, a senior in education sciences and social policy […]

Dyonne Bergeron

UC Irvine names new vice chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion

An experienced leader, Dyonne Bergeron will also serve as chief diversity officer

For Phase 1 of the EPA’s Environmental Justice Video Challenge for Students, UCI team members created maps pinpointing soil lead contamination hot spots in Santa Ana; the red areas above show where the dirt contains unhealthy levels of the metal. Following Phase 2 of the competition, UCI students and community activists are partnering in a project to use plants and fungus to remove lead from affected locations.

Meeting the environmental justice challenge

UCI graduate students honored by EPA for bioremediation project video

Class of 2023 graduate Paul Hurst, Ph.D., chemistry

#IamUCI – Paul Hurst

Q&A with Class of 2023 graduate Paul Hurst, Ph.D., chemistry

Luis Cuevas, B.S., biochemistry and molecular biology

#IamUCI – Luis Cuevas

Q&A with Class of 2023 graduate Luis Cuevas, B.S., biochemistry and molecular biology

Graduate Shemms Najjar, M.P.H.

#IamUCI – Shemms Najjar

Q&A with Class of 2023 graduate Shemms Najjar, M.P.H.