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Green Fleet Awards also honored campus for best university fleet of vehicles

Stephanie Reich, UCI associate professor of education, has received a two-year, $150,000 grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to research how digital media influences child development. Data from her earlier NICHD-funded Baby Books 2 project will be used to describe the media habits of ethnically and linguistically […]

The widespread adoption of electrified transportation is seen as an important step in slowing climate change, but that depends on our ability to produce enough batteries for this and other applications. Huolin Xin, UCI associate professor of physics & astronomy, recently collaborated with scientists at UC San Diego and leading national laboratories to identify a […]

UCI is part of a national research consortium that recently was awarded nearly $2 million by the U.S. Department of Transportation to establish a top-tier university transportation center. Led by The Ohio State University, the Center for Automated Vehicles Research with Multimodal Assured Navigation will investigate and develop solutions to autonomous vehicle safety and security […]

Campus lauded for combining quality and affordability

Nadia Chernyak, UCI assistant professor of cognitive sciences, has received a $736,366 National Science Foundation CAREER grant to investigate how cognitive skills shape our understanding of equity. Previous research suggests that math skills – particularly comprehension of fractions – can help explain whether or not a child understands fairness and inequality. Chernyak and her team […]

UCI MIND, the Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders at UCI, has been awarded a $14.4 million grant from the National Institute on Aging, one of the National Institutes of Health, to sustain critical research and education as Orange County’s only Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. The NIA funds only 32 of these centers at […]

Found in cartilage, bones, blood vessels, skin and other connective tissues, collagens are the most abundant proteins by weight in the human body. In an article published recently in Nature Reviews Materials, UCI biomedical engineering researchers provide an exhaustive description of the superfamily of this biomaterial, which includes 28 subtypes. “Collagen – which has known connections […]

Beginning this fall, incoming School of Social Sciences graduate students will have an opportunity to participate in the Enhancing Diversity and Equitable Inclusion Thriving in the Academy Program. Spearheaded by Belinda Robnett, professor of sociology and associate dean of faculty development and diversity in social sciences, the program is supported by a five-year, $349,996 grant […]

Researchers pull in campus-best $529 million in grants and contracts