Briefs

Koenig elected to board of international disaster medicine group

Dr. Kristi Koenig, UC Irvine professor of clinical emergency medicine and director of public health preparedness, has been elected to…

Vaca study to focus on injury risk and young Latino men

Dr. Federico Vaca, UC Irvine associate professor of clinical emergency medicine and director of the Center for Trauma and Injury…

UCI undergrad wins Dalai Lama scholarship for using art to promote peace

For her efforts to use art as a medium to raise social awareness, Rebecca Dawn Westerman was recently named UC…

Biophysics project receives about $1.5 million from NIH

UC Irvine professors Clare Yu and her collaborator, Steven Gross, have received about $1.5 million over five years from the…

Vicki Ruiz appointed to Smithsonian advisory board

Vicki Ruiz, professor of history and Chicano/Latino studies and interim dean of humanities at UC Irvine, was recently elected to…

Climate change panel awarded Nobel Peace Prize

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the Nobel Peace Prize Friday, Oct. 12, for its work to alert the…

Chair of surgery honored with distinguished service award

Dr. David B. Hoyt, the John E. Connolly M.D. Professor and Chair of Surgery, has been awarded with the American…

Orthopaedic surgery chair wins top award for hand surgery

Dr. Ranjan Gupta, professor and chair of orthopaedic surgery in the UC Irvine School of Medicine, has won the Sterling…

UCI professors appointed to California Scientific Guidance Panel

Drs. Dwight Culver and Ulrike Luderer in the UC Irvine School of Medicine have been appointed to the Scientific Guidance…

Dechter earns research excellence award

UC Irvine computer science professor Rina Dechter has been awarded the 2007 Association for Constraint Programming Research Excellence award for…