Faculty

UCI team gets $1 million Keck Foundation grant to develop tools for RNA observation

A multidisciplinary team of UCI professors has received a $1 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to develop new molecular tools to identify ribonucleic acids essential in learning and memory formation. “Our project involves building luminescent RNA molecules, allowing us to observe their position and activity in the brain of a living, learning mouse,” […]

Largescale wetlands construction seen as effective treatment for farm runoff

UCI, U. of Kansas and U. of Minnesota experts model Mississippi Basin water quality

Victoria Lowerson Bredow, right, with Connie McGuire

Research solidarity with communities

Newkirk Center fellowship program teaches interdisciplinary graduate students a more collaborative, inclusive way to engage with groups they study

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UCI Podcast: The perils and benefits of dream incubation

Professor Sara Mednick discusses how sounds and smells can influence our sleeping minds

Microsoft funds study on development of sustainable materials for use in electronics

Oladele Ogunseitan, Ph.D., University of California Presidential Chair and UCI professor of population health and disease prevention, and Julie Schoenung, Ph.D., UCI chair and professor of materials science and engineering, have been awarded a $200,000 research grant from Microsoft Corp. They are co-principal investigators on a project entitled “Sustainable Development of Materials in Printed Circuit […]

Increased use of household fireworks creates a public health hazard, UCI study finds

Impacts are most pronounced in Southern California’s low-income communities

Bri Bri Finley, a UCI postdoctoral scholar in ecology & evolutionary biology, and team members make their way through mustard plants to their research plots on Loma Ridge.

Fieldwork for a better future

UCI partners with Irvine Ranch Conservancy for climate change adaptation study of plant and microbial ecosystems on Loma Ridge

Philip Felgner, UCI professor in residence of physiology & biophysics and director of the campus’s Vaccine Research and Development Center

UCI professor wins Spain's prestigious Princess of Asturias award for scientific research

Philip Felgner is one of seven honored for contributions to designing COVID-19 vaccines

Seven faculty members named 2021-22 Hellman Fellows

Seven assistant professors at UCI will receive $50,000 Hellman Fellowships, which are bestowed annually to support research by junior faculty. They join an elite group of 63 UCI Hellman Fellows since 2013, when the Hellman Fellows Fund established the program here. The program began in 1995 at UC Berkeley and UC San Diego and has since […]

Manuella Oliveira Yassa, director of outreach and education at UCI’s Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Nurturing an early interest in neuroscience

Both inspired and supported by UCI’s Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, a local high schooler launches a group for teens fascinated by the brain