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UCI awarded $3.8 million NIH grant to advance BRAIN Initiative research

Funding will help campus become a national center of neuroscience resources

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UCI launches Center for Data-Driven Drugs Research and Policy

Center to accelerate research to address the lack of diversity in biomedical studies

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Director of UCI’s California Alliance for Minority Participation appointed to national board

Pheather R. Harris named president-elect of National Association of Multicultural Engineering Program Advocates

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UCI celebrates 2023-24 scholarship recipients

Fulbright, NSF, Goldwater, Strauss and Killam fellowship awardees announced

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Anai Campos Contreras named 2023 Pew Latin American Fellow in the Biomedical Sciences

The Pew Charitable Trusts has named Anai Campos Contreras, incoming UC Irvine postdoctoral fellow in pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences, a 2023 Pew Latin American Fellow in the Biomedical Sciences. Campos received a Ph.D. in biomedical sciences in 2022 from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Later this summer, she will join the laboratory of Thomas Martinez, […]

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Quinton Smith named 2023 Pew Scholar in the Biological Sciences

Quinton Smith, UC Irvine assistant professor in chemical and biomolecular engineering, has been named a 2023 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences. The Pew Charitable Trusts supports outstanding biomedical researchers at the start of their careers. Pew has honored this year’s group of 22 early-career scientists by furnishing four years of funding for the pursuit of […]

UC Irvine engineers invent a way to 3D print optical-grade glass at the nanoscale

Innovation enables on-chip manufacturing for technologies in medicine, communications and other applications

Emma Rosandich, Andrea Valentini, Elizabeth Hafen, Provost Hal Stern, and Owen Trimble (not pictured: John Robb and Michelle Wei)

UC Irvine announces 2023-24 Fulbright students

The University of California, Irvine has announced five Fulbright U.S. Student Program award recipients for 2023-24: William Dunkel, a Ph.D. candidate in informatics; Elizabeth Hafen, a senior in psychology and political science; Owen Trimble, a senior in mechanical engineering; Emma Rosandich, a senior in urban studies; and Michelle Wei, a senior in education sciences and social policy […]

Pharmacist involvement in medication refills is found to improve patient care

Effective collaboration can also positively impact primary care providers

Postdoctoral fellow is awarded $100,000 to continue study of fragile X syndrome

Most common inherited cause of autism