Biological Sciences

UCI program helps meet nation’s critical need for more – and better – math and science teachers.

UC researchers have found a possible alternate path for TB to spread in the human body.

UCI Arboretum showcases diverse plants of California as well as exotic African bulb flowers.

UCI cactus restoration program aims to boost the population of a rare wren. Biologists are creating a welcoming habitat near campus that they hope will help the species thrive.

UCI pilot program takes root on historic Irvine Ranch.

UCI botanist travels the world helping scientific groups

UCI Professor Diane O’Dowd and others argue science teaching is not properly valued.

An innovative undergraduate course, “Disparities in Medicine,” addresses diversity and how healthcare workers can embrace patients’ distinctive cultural beliefs, languages and faiths to provide better care.

With his rosy cheeks and booming laugh, Michael Clegg is often told he resembles Santa Claus, and he logs almost as many miles. The UC Irvine ecology & evolutionary biology professor also is foreign secretary for the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, which means he’s on the road as much as he’s at home in Irvine. […]

Longtime assistant Nan Collett helps superior memory research in James McGaugh’s lab run smoothly.