Just a fraction of the carbon that finds its way into Earth’s oceans–the black soot and charcoal residue of fires–stays there for thousands of years. A first-of-its-kind analysis by UC Irvine, Rice University and the University of Southern California also revealed how some black carbon breaks away and hitches a ride to the ocean floor on passing particles.
UC Irvine researchers played a key part in findings released this week about the rate at which the universe expanded after the Big Bang and continues to grow.
Six massive glaciers in West Antarctica are moving faster than they did 40 years ago, causing more ice to discharge into the ocean and raising the global sea level, according to new UC Irvine-led research reported in Geophysical Research Letters.
Amy Wilentz, UC Irvine professor of English and literary journalism, has won a National Book Critics Circle Award for her autobiography Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti, a gritty memoir based on years of reporting from Haiti.
Researchers – including those at UC Irvine – have discovered and validated a blood test that can predict with greater than 90 percent accuracy whether a healthy person will develop mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer’s disease within three years.
UC Irvine has pledged to join the Institute of International Education’s Generation Study Abroad initiative to double the number of American students who study abroad by the end of the decade.
Maria Pantelia, professor and chair of the Department of Classics and director of the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae at UC Irvine, will receive the Theodore Saloutos Award from the American Hellenic Council at its 2014 awards gala on March 22 in downtown Los Angeles.
The American Educational Research Association has named Greg Duncan, Jacquelynne Eccles and Mark Warschauer as the inaugural editors of AERA Open, a new open-access journal.
The American Educational Research Association has named Mark Warschauer, UC Irvine professor of education and informatics, one of 22 fellows in recognition of his notable and sustained research achievements.
Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Chancellor’s Professor of history at UC Irvine, was selected as a 2014-15 Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar.