EVENT: University of California, Irvine faculty members and community leaders from across the state will gather on campus for the Conference on Poverty & Inequality in California. They’ll discuss some of today’s most compelling issues: the persistence of childhood poverty, the growing inequality gap, and the effectiveness of poverty alleviation programs. WHEN/WHERE: 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday, […]
Could the organizational structure of Samsung have affected the response time in terminating the Galaxy Note7? John Joseph, UCI assistant professor of strategy, is lead author of an article recently published in the Harvard Business Review that answers that question. Co-authored by Ronald Klingebiel, a professor of strategy at Germany’s Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, “Centralized […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has granted UCI materials engineer Alon Gorodetsky a Young Faculty Award in support of his work to create smart fabrics for soldiers. The assistant professor of chemical engineering & materials science is one of 27 researchers nationwide to receive the prestigious award. Gorodetsky studies the adaptive properties of squid skin. He […]
A UCI team led by Padhraic Smyth, professor of computer science and director of the UCI Data Science Initiative, is one of 16 interdisciplinary groups to share $47 million awarded as part of the National Science Foundation Research Traineeship program. UCI will receive $2.9 million, primarily in the form of graduate student fellowships, to develop “team science […]
Traditional keyboard sounds can be decoded, UCI and Italian researchers find
Youth could determine outcome of presidential election – if they vote
Large-scale study co-authored by UCI sociologist is first of its kind
UCI’s new degree program in global Middle East studies is not just interdisciplinary but interschool
The latest quarterly report issued through the School of Social Ecology’s Metropolitan Futures Initiative explores the concept of demographic “mixing,” its prevalence in Southern California neighborhoods and its relationship to “economic dynamism.” Researchers identified seven factors that directly affect a community’s vitality and well-being, each with a four- or five-category range: population age, household income, […]
Physics professor’s book aims to bridge the divide between faith and reason