Marquis Vawter, Ph.D., research professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Human Behavior at the UCI School of Medicine, participated in companion studies published in Nature, analyzing regions of the human genome associated with increased risk of schizophrenia. Researchers knew that the disorder carries a 60 to 80 percent inheritability and wanted to determine common […]
New technique enables precise measurement of electrostatic properties of materials
Visionary arts and diversity leader comes from Arizona State University
Selma Masri, assistant professor of biological chemistry in the UCI School of Medicine, has won the prestigious 2022 Johnson & Johnson WiSTEM2D Scholars Award for Science. The awards program honors one scholar in each STEM2D discipline: science, technology, engineering, math, manufacturing and design. The six diverse, international female recipients were selected out of a competitive […]
Campus leads the way in environmental stewardship of the planet
Scholar, advocate and administrator Thomas Parham to receive Extraordinarius award
UCI researchers have originated a simplified, faster clinical sample testing method to detect genetic material, including viral RNA. Their findings were recently published in the journal Scientific Reports. “We showed that a saliva sample withdrawn using a simple microbiological loop can be directly analyzed in a single collection tube, using common and precise DNA amplification […]
UCI researchers reconsider carbon storage with improved climate models, satellite data
Professor of art is among 180 recipients of the renowned award
UCI, NASA scientists studied the role of warming sea water on the island’s land ice