Briefs

Koenig and national health leaders talk about emergency preparedness

Dr. Kristi Koenig, co-director of emergency medical services and the disaster medical sciences fellowship in the UC Irvine School of…

Child development researchers find ADHD drugs stunt growth

UC Irvine pediatricians, led by Child Development Center director Jim Swanson (pictured), have found that after three years children who…

Atlantic Monthly declares great writers are made at UC Irvine

<![CDATA[ Atlantic Monthly‘s 2007 fiction issue commends UC Irvine’s master of fine arts creative writing program as one of the country’s…]]>

Vicki Ruiz named UCI humanities dean

Vicki L. Ruiz, a UC Irvine historian specializing in Chicano/Latino studies, has been named dean of the UCI School of…

Ruiz named interim dean of humanities

Vicki Ruiz has been named interim dean of UC Irvine’s School of Humanities, which includes 12 departments and 2,650 students.…

Harry Potter available at UC Irvine Bookstore

Fly on in on your Nimbus 2000 (or walk or drive if you must) to the UC Irvine Bookstore for…

UC Irvine Chancellor Drake heads to China to give keynote speech

UC Irvine Chancellor Michael V. Drake traveled Friday, July 20, to Beijing, China, where he will be the American keynote…

UCI and Harvard researchers team up to produce innovative Web site

If you’ve always wanted to know how to extract DNA from a termite, harvest stem cells from the cerebral cortex…

Keirstead lab awarded grant for stem cell research safety

The Dhont Family Foundation, represented by Executive Director Andre G. Dhont (pictured), has given $100,000 to UC Irvine neurobiologist Hans…

UCI vector biologist named Distinguished Professor

Vector biologist Anthony A. James has been named Distinguished Professor in recognition of his research into infectious diseases such as…