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UCI-led study finds Harry Potter fan fiction challenges cultural stereotypes of autism

Digital media platforms enable marginalized groups to offer alternative representations

Study finds that drug activity boosts crime in neighborhoods regardless of stability, wealth

The influence of drug activity on crime rates is independent of a neighborhood’s stability and socioeconomic status, according to a recent UCI study. “Communities with narcotics trafficking bring in serious, high-rate offenders, whose activities spill over into surrounding neighborhoods,” said lead author Christopher Contreras, a doctoral student in criminology, law & society. “Residential stability and […]

International panel of scientists, writers, academics and communicators to speak at two-day UCI conference on climate change

 EVENT:                  The UCI Forum for the Academy and the Public presents, “Fire & Ice: The Shifting Narrative of Climate Change,” a two-day conference that will tackle the most serious threat to humanity today: climate change. It will feature an interdisciplinary and international panel of scientists, writers, academics and communicators – including Pulitzer Prize winner […]

Soroosh Sorooshian is elected a fellow of the International Union of Geodesy & Geophysics

Soroosh Sorooshian, director of UCI’s Center for Hydrometeorology & Remote Sensing and Distinguished Professor of civil & environmental engineering and Earth system science, has been elected a fellow of the International Union of Geodesy & Geophysics. A renowned expert in water resources engineering, Sorooshian has vast experience working with global organizations and looking at the […]

UCI online master’s program in criminology, law & society rises to No. 2 in national ranking

UCI’s Master of Advanced Study in criminology, law & society has advanced to No. 2 in the country in U.S. News & World Report‘s 2019 ranking of the Best Online Graduate Criminal Justice Programs. A total of 77 schools with online criminal justice or criminology programs were evaluated in five categories: engagement, expert opinion, faculty […]

Forbes magazine ranks UCI seventh among the most diverse workplaces in the country

Forbes has named UCI one of the best employers for diversity in the nation. The magazine rated the campus No. 7 overall – the second-highest ranking for both a California employer and an educational institute. UCI is Orange County’s second-largest employer, with 16,400 faculty and staff working on campus and at the UCI Medical Center […]

UCI study identifies a new way by which the human brain marks time

Novel findings may further understanding of age-related dementia

Clean and green: UCI physicist helps invent novel way of converting nitrogen to ammonia

The ammonia you use to clean and disinfect your kitchen floor starts off as nitrogen, a gas that makes up almost 80 percent of Earth’s atmosphere. But the conversion requires the breaking of a strong triple-chemical bond in a high-heat, high-pressure industrial process. UCI physicist Huolin Xin worked with his colleagues at Brookhaven National Laboratory […]

Professor emeritus of physics & astronomy receives Heinlein Award for science fiction

Gregory Benford, science fiction author and professor emeritus of physics & astronomy at UCI, is the 2019 winner of the Heinlein Award, bestowed for outstanding published works in science fiction and technical writings that inspire the human exploration of space. The award is in recognition of Benford’s body of work, including 32 novels – among […]

UCI/JPL: Antarctica losing six times more ice mass annually now than 40 years ago

Climate change-induced melting will raise global sea levels for decades to come