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Essential iron is hoarded and recycled by the climate-regulating aquatic plants

Distinction honors contributions to research, education and practice

UCI chancellor to oversee center’s administration, begin search for executive director

Irvine, Calif., Feb. 6, 2018 — The University of California, Irvine today announced the resignation of Howard Federoff, M.D., Ph.D., as vice chancellor for health affairs and CEO of the UCI Health System. He will retain his faculty position and continue his neurobiological research on the UCI campus. “Howard is a brilliant physician and scientist,” […]

UCI, other astronomers find plane of dwarf satellites orbiting Centaurus A

Findings paint less dire climate picture, as ancient emissions are more harmful

EVENT:  The United States is facing a peculiar time in which it’s unusually difficult to take stock of ourselves. If we had to say what underpins America today, if we were forced to choose our core beliefs or values as a nation, it’s not clear that we could readily do so. Keynote speaker Jill Lepore, […]

Gift provides initial endowment funding to sustain core activities on all UC campuses

Two UCI researchers have received a $1 million grant from the prestigious W.M. Keck Foundation to develop new technologies to study the dynamic properties of key RNA modifications. The grant goes to principal investigator Robert Spitale, assistant professor of pharmaceutical sciences, and co-investigator John Chaput, professor of pharmaceutical sciences, chemistry and molecular biology & biochemistry. […]

In the criminal justice category, UCI offers one of the top online graduate degree programs in the country. According to U.S. News & World Report‘s 2018 ranking of such programs, UCI is tied for third with the University of Nebraska Omaha. In total, 90 schools with online criminal justice or criminology programs were judged in five […]