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Technology improves cancer treatment at UCI

Recent additions at UC Irvine’s Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center decrease patients’ radiation exposure, increase their comfort.

'Body Electric,' by Simon Penny and Malcolm McIver

DAC ’09 links culture, technology

Prestigious conference brings 100 presenters to UC Irvine in subjects ranging from informatics to science and technology studies, and from media studies to digital art and design.

Michael Drake shakes hands with chemistry grad student Jason Deckman

Budget cuts spur write-in campaign

California legislators and Gov. Schwarzenegger get the message from UC Irvine: It’s time to re-invest in higher education.

UCI's Digital Media & Learning Research Hub

Digital media & learning hub under way

Digital media use is transforming the way young people learn, UCI researcher Mizuko “Mimi” Ito has found, and schools should take note.

Katie and Kenny Callen and their son, Gage

UCI alumni help the homeless

The Illumination Foundation, started by six UCI students, helps homeless families find the way back to self-sufficiency.

Erika Hayasaki

A journalist’s journey

Award-winning reporter Erika Hayasaki trains a new generation of writers at UCI.

Jeff Barrett

A quantum leap forward?

With $160,000 from the National Science Foundation, Jeff Barrett and colleagues are combing through, scanning and preserving documents they hope will shed light on how to understand measurement as a consistent physical process in quantum mechanics – one of physics’ most debated puzzles that Everett believed he had solved as a graduate student.

The ATLAS portion of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN

A new physics frontier

After more than one year of repairs, the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland is back on track to create high-energy particle collisions and yield extraordinary insights into the nature of the physical universe. Eight UC Irvine scientists are involved.

UCI's Aaron Barth

Black hole patrol

UC Irvine’s Aaron Barth, physics & astronomy associate professor, will speak on “Supermassive Black Holes in Galaxies” as part of the 2009-10 Discover the Physical Sciences Breakfast Lecture Series.

The mummy of Esankh

The mummy’s curse: hardened arteries

A UCI study shows that hardening of the arteries has been detected in Egyptian mummies as old as 3,500 years, suggesting that factors causing heart attacks and strokes are not solely byproducts of modern times.