UC Irvine ranks eighth in the world and No. 1 in the nation among international universities under 50 years old, according to a new survey by Quacquarelli Symonds.
Andy Nguyen Le ’14 donates Living Our Values Award funds to UCI Libraries’ Southeast Asian Archive.
A research team that included Steven Allison, associate professor of ecology & evolutionary biology in the Francisco J. Ayala School of Biological Sciences, has found that warmer temperatures shorten the lifespan of soil microbes, and this may affect how soil stores carbon.
UC Irvine’s School of Education has received a $300,000 gift from AT&T to support its recent $11 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education for a project to improve the literacy skills of English learners.
Technology developed at UCI was used to detect and monitor a toxic algae bloom in Lake Erie that prompted a recent three-day ban on drinking tap water in Toledo, Ohio.
UC Irvine is being recognized for its commitment to sustainability with a listing in The Princeton Review’s Green Honor Roll.
Ten UC Irvine faculty members are among the top 1 percent of scientific researchers, according to the 2014 Highly Cited Researchers list produced by Thomson Reuters.
Leslie Thompson of the Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center has been awarded $505,717 by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to continue her CIRM-funded effort to create stem cell treatments for Huntington’s disease.
Based on a variety of satellite data, UC Irvine and NASA researchers expect Amazon forests this year to see a below-average wildfire season.
Carrie Reiling, a UCI graduate student in political science, has been awarded a competitive Fulbright grant to study in the Ivory Coast next year.