Faculty

Making their mark

For the 30th anniversary of Women’s History Month, we take a look at some current UCI trailblazers

Researchers explain spike in ocean temps that caused mass coral death in South China Sea

A South China Sea atoll lost nearly half its living coral in one summer due to spiking ocean temperatures and stagnant weather, according to new research by Kristen Davis, UCI assistant professor of Earth system science and civil & environmental engineering, and colleagues. The findings, published in Scientific Reports, describe how a 2-degree-Celsius rise in surface temperatures in the South China […]

Di Xu shares $5,000 award for best academic paper

Di Xu, assistant professor of education, is co-author of a research report selected as the winner of the 2017 AEFP-Kauffman Foundation Award for best academic paper on the intersection of education and labor market outcomes. In “What About Certificates? Evidence on the Labor Market Returns to Non-Degree Community College Awards in Two States,” Xu and […]

Engineer Regina Ragan named Fulbright Scholar

UCI’s Regina Ragan, associate professor of chemical engineering & materials science, has been named a Fulbright U.S. Scholar and will collaborate with researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany through the Fulbright Flex program. Ragan’s work involves developing new processes in advanced manufacturing of nanoscale devices. She is creating technology that employs optical sensing to detect metabolites that […]

Carol Booth Olson

On the right path

UCI teacher development program fosters academic literacy of English learners in middle and high school

UCI’s critical theory program is No. 1 in U.S. News’ graduate school rankings

11other fields of study place in top 25 among public universities in annual list

UCI Newkirk Center for Science & Society named home for National Registry of Exonerations

Repository noted as leading source of information for official criminal conviction reversals

Personal adversity builds extreme political views, UCI study finds

Stressful events are a catalyst for polarized beliefs

Snake bit? UCI chemists figure out how to easily and cheaply halt venom’s spread

Molecular gel could save millions globally from death or disfigurement

Katherine Mackey named Sloan Research Fellow

Katherine Mackey, UCI’s Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Earth System Science, has been awarded a 2017 Sloan Research Fellowship in ocean sciences for her pioneering work in marine biogeochemistry. Each year since 1955, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has awarded two-year fellowships to 126 promising early-career scientists in the U.S. and Canada. Nominated by […]