Faculty

UCI lands $1 million Keck Foundation grant to develop new RNA tools

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. […]

Less predictable precipitation

Waning influence of once-telling weather patterns altered by global warming skews projections

Literary journalist awarded Alicia Patterson Foundation grant for stories about epigenetics

Erika Hayasaki, a UCI associate professor of English who teaches literary journalism, has received a 12-month, $40,000 grant from the Alicia Patterson Foundation. The award will help fund Hayasaki’s research, reporting and travel for four magazine-style stories involving epigenetics, including twin studies, the intersection of science and the courts, and the future of gene editing. […]

Earned income tax credit increases women's earnings over time, study finds

UCI researchers are first to focus on long-term benefits of federal provision

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Inventing a Better Future

From miniature beating hearts to hacker-resistant cellphones, UCI faculty, students and alumni have generated a multitude of remarkable inventions and discoveries.

Leila Safavi-Tehrani

Ingenuity Central

UCI Applied Innovation smooths the way for Anteater research to become commercial products and benefit society

L. Song Richardson named dean of UCI School of Law

Distinguished legal scholar is only woman of color to lead top-30 law school

Wilson Ho

Delving into the atomic realm

UCI-built apparatus helps scientists probe the unknown

Henry Samueli is named a 2017 fellow of the National Academy of Inventors

Henry Samueli, Broadcom Corp. co-founder and UCI Distinguished Adjunct Professor of electrical engineering & computer science, has been named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors for 2017. The distinction is awarded to academic inventors who’ve demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation with outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of […]

Geneticist Emiliana Borrelli receives prestigious honors

For more than 30 years as a researcher at INSERM – the French equivalent of the National Institutes of Health – and the UCI School of Medicine, Emiliana Borrelli has earned international recognition for her studies on the neurotransmitter dopamine and its role in brain diseases, movement disorders and addiction. This fall, the Chancellor’s Professor […]