Biological Sciences

History of fruit fly research and riddle solved at UCI.

Physical sciences dean since 2006, the renowned chemist is a ‘committed campus collaborator.’

UCI senior and new Dalai Lama Scholar Bethel Mesgana is dedicated to compassionate medicine.

Jessica Vaughan is using the dedication needed in being the UC Irvine cross-country team’s captain to succeed a much longer and more difficult race: curbing the epidemic of childhood obesity in the U.S.

Event proceeds will benefit undergraduate, graduate programs.

National Research Council ranks several UC Irvine doctoral programs among the tops in the nation. Young programs are on an upward trajectory.

Psychologist Salvatore R. Maddi remembers when one of his graduate students at the University of Chicago showed him an article in Family Circle that warned, “Stress can kill you, so you need to stay away from it.” That was a popular theory in the 1970s, but Maddi was skeptical. He’d already done studies indicating that stress could […]

Dr. Alan Barbour, professor of medicine and microbiology & molecular genetics, is new Academic Senate chair.

Twice a month, a group of UC Irvine students bike to Santa Ana to feed the homeless. Their goal: building relationships.

UCI scientists locate inner brain pathway they believe is key to memory.