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Researcher’s innovations are useful in medical, defense, and energy applications

Researcher’s work will probe ‘elusive universe’ of neutrinos, dark matter and gravity

A. Park Williams to use funding to study climate change and its connection to droughts, wildfires

The Oct. 14 mid-morning event will be viewable in Southern California

Vaccine Research & Development Center director noted for contribution to mRNA vaccines

Official praises Institute of Transportation Studies research

The escalating rate of opioid use disorder in the elderly population is a serious public health issue. As the number of older adults increases, the proportion seeking treatment is on the rise. These patients are seen in hospitals, ambulatory clinics and post-acute care settings such as skilled nursing facilities. In an article recently published online in […]

UCI has been awarded a five-year, $3.5 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to study the sex-specific differences in circuits that connect the brain’s stress and reward centers. Building on the earlier discovery of how brain circuit operation is disrupted by exposure to early-life adversity, researchers will study the emergence of gender as […]

Claudia Benavente, UCI associate professor of pharmaceutical sciences, was recently featured on the Chilean TV show “Pasaporte Ciencia” (“Science Passport”) as one of the Chilean scientists conducting important research in various countries around the world. The host, Cristian Hernandez, and his team traveled to campus for the interview. “The initial challenge for the production was […]

Funding will help campus become a national center of neuroscience resources