Faculty

Joseph L. White

A labor of love

Joseph L. White, ‘father of black psychology,’ is honored by American Psychological Association

Drought

Hot, dry and human-caused

UCI and other scientists say Californians must learn to live within the state’s new climate

2-year-olds with larger oral vocabularies enter kindergarten better prepared than their peers

Children with better academic and behavioral functioning when they start kindergarten often have better educational and societal opportunities as they grow up. For instance, children entering kindergarten with higher reading and math achievements are more likely to go to college, own homes, be married and live in higher-income neighborhoods as adults. A new study points to the […]

UCI’s Vietnamese American Oral History Project and OC Parks are hosting an eight-month exhibition of photos, artwork and oral histories to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the influx of Vietnamese refugees and immigrants into the US.

UCI-OC Parks exhibition celebrates diversity of Vietnamese American experience

EVENT: UCI’s Vietnamese American Oral History Project and OC Parks present “Vietnamese Focus: Generations of Stories,” an interactive art and history exhibition that captures the compelling and complex Vietnamese experience before, during and after the Vietnam War. Utilizing photos, documents, oral histories, artifacts and artwork, the eight-month exhibition commemorates the 40th anniversary of the fall […]

A patient receiving electroacupuncture – a form of acupuncture that employs low-intensity electrical stimulation

Hypertensive patients benefit from acupuncture treatments, UCI study finds

Ancient Chinese practice lowers blood pressure, may lessen stroke, heart disease risks

This map of ocean surface temperatures shows how warm waters in the North Atlantic fueled Hurricane Katrina.

UCI, NASA researchers find link between Amazon fire risk, devastating hurricanes

Researchers from the University of California, Irvine and NASA have uncovered a remarkably strong link between high wildfire risk in the Amazon basin and the devastating hurricanes that ravage North Atlantic shorelines. The climate scientists’ findings appear in the journal Geophysical Research Letters near the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s calamitous August 2005 landfall at New Orleans.

Jennifer Kane

Woman’s health, education and marital status pre-pregnancy affect birth weight of her daughters, granddaughters

Study by UCI sociologist is first to tie low natal weight to biological, social factors three generations deep

Dr. Henry Klassen

UCI-led team begins first clinical trial of stem cell-based retinitis pigmentosa treatment

Participants are sought for safety study on the use of retinal progenitors in the eye

Workers install solar panels atop the campus’s Student Center Parking Structure

UCI: We’re the coolest

Campus is first in Sierra magazine’s green schools ranking for second year in a row

Workers install solar panels atop the campus’s Student Center Parking Structure

We’re the coolest

Campus is first in Sierra magazine’s green schools ranking for second year in a row