Year: 2025

UC Irvine to host third annual Día de los Muertos event

EVENT: UC Irvine’s School of Social Ecology will host its third annual Día de los Muertos event, complete with live music, dancing, a virtual and physical altar, customary foods, face painting, and crafts. The free celebration will immerse attendees in the rich Mexican tradition of honoring and remembering deceased loved ones. WHEN/WHERE: 4-8 p.m. Monday, […]

Driving ambition

Federico Vaca and his team combine behavioral science and technology to improve teen and young adult safety behind the wheel

UCI’s Chief Innovation Officer Errol Arkilic. Beall Applied Innovation

A hub of invention

Beall Applied Innovation powers UC Irvine’s culture of innovation and entrepreneurship

UC Irvine researchers find new Alzheimer's mechanism linked to brain inflammation

Discovery reveals long-studied receptor is built differently than previously understood

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Studying a nearby exoplanet

UC Irvine physics & astronomy researchers explore a “super Earth” in a nearby solar system

Planet and star in deep space. Super-Earth with ocean. Sunrise on a blue Earth-like planet.
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UC Irvine astronomers discover nearby exoplanet in habitable zone

The team found that the surface may have liquid water on its surface – a necessary ingredient for life

Ian O. Williamson, dean of UC Irvine’s Paul Merage School of Business.

The power and promise of higher education in an age of disruption

Ian Williamson discusses the overwhelming importance of a college education to a person and to civic health

UC Irvine Professor and Chair of Psychiatry and Human Behavior Cameron Carter.

UC Irvine's Cameron Carter is elected to National Academy of Medicine

Distinguished Professor is recognized for advances in cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry

Dr. J. Stuart Nelson from the Beckman Laser Institute & Medical Clinic demonstrates the Dynamic Cooling Device, in 2011.

Lighting the way

How watching a baseball game led to a discovery that made laser surgery possible

Microglia, brain cells

Harnessing the brain's repair crew

With NIH support, UC Irvine scientists are using the brain’s immune cells to reimagine Alzheimer’s treatments