Briefs

UCI chemist wins award for excellence in research and leadership.

Psychology & social behavior professor Roxane Cohen Silver participated Thursday, April 25, in a congressional briefing in Washington, D.C., and during the trip also was awarded a National Science Foundation rapid response research grant to examine the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings.

Chancellor Michael Drake recently announced that history professor Keith Nelson and English professor J. Hillis Miller had been appointed Edward A. Dickson Emeriti Professors.

A new study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that identifies critical marine life relies on work done by UC Irvine undergraduates, according to Earth system science professor Adam Martiny, the lead author.

Three UC Irvine graduate students have received prestigious NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowships for their research projects involving water and climate. NASA provides the awards, which include up to three years of financial support, to ensure training of a highly qualified workforce in disciplines that support its scientific goals. “Each of these students is amazing […]

Matt Gudorf, campus energy engineer, got a high-five from his peers recently when he was named 2012 Energy Engineer of the Year. The award is presented by the Southern California Chapter of the Association of Energy Engineers for outstanding accomplishments in the field. The Southern California chapter draws from the largest population base of the […]

UC Irvine professor of cognitive sciences Michael Lee and colleagues discovered that the collective opinions of users of Ranker—a website that solicits crowd input on a variety of topics—predicted recent celebrity deaths better than individual users, chance or age.

Samuel McCulloch, founding dean of the UC Irvine School of Humanities and professor emeritus of history, died May 13. He was 96.

UC Irvine lecturer/researcher Brandon Brown, Ph.D., and public health grad student Melissa Nasiruddin published a paper in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases that explores using zombies to educate the moviegoing masses about re-emerging infectious diseases such as rabies and neurological conditions such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

UC Irvine Chancellor’s Professor Chen Tsai has been recognized by the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers’ Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics & Frequency Control Society with its 2013 lifetime achievement award.