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Dr. Suzy Kim

Helping spinal injury patients move forward

Dr. Suzy Kim knows – from personal experience – that early, rigorous rehab is key for spinal injury patients.

Speaking of Jack

Campus and community leaders recall working with the multifaceted Jack Peltason.

In praise of Peltason

Jack Peltason, UC Irvine’s second chancellor and the University of California’s 16th president, has received the American Council on Education’s Distinguished Service Award for “a lifetime of achievement and service to higher education and to ACE.”

A mother and child

TLC boosts baby's brain

UCI child neurologist and neuroscientist Dr. Tallie Z. Baram has found that maternal care and other sensory input triggers activity in a baby’s developing brain that improves cognitive function and builds resilience to stress.

Transgenic Hydra expressing the green fluorescent protein.

UCI a historical hotbed of hydra research

UCI biologists’ groundbreaking work with the freshwater polyp hydra helped put a young campus on the map.

Helping Chileans heal

Roxane Cohen Silver, UCI expert on trauma and coping, advises leaders of quake-stricken country on ways to promote psychological recovery.

Rose Jacobs

Giving doctors a checkup

Living Our Values Award recipient Rose Jacobs makes sure UCI physicians have — and keep — the proper credentials. She’s director of medical staff administration at UC Irvine Medical Center.

Keeping the Mexican coast clear

UCI’s Sharon Stern and colleagues are helping a Mexican coastal village preserve a coral reef by better managing its wastewater.

Giant Anteater

OC welcomes giant anteaters

With help from UCI supporters, two giant anteaters — the real-life Peter and his mate — debut at the Santa Ana Zoo.

Cyrus Bonczkowski

Summer camp for burn survivors

Children treated at UC Irvine Medical Center find support among others with similar injuries.