Faculty

A crash test dummy for a water polo concussion study

Heading off concussions

Professor James Hicks, director of UCI’s Exercise Medicine & Sport Sciences Initiative, leads novel probe of impact injuries in water polo

Charles Limoli

NASA awards UCI $9 million to study underlying mechanisms of ‘space brain’

Charles Limoli will lead effort to see how cosmic radiation affects astronauts’ cognition

Howard Gillman

Howard Gillman to be officially invested as sixth chancellor of UCI

EVENT: A program of dance and impromptu theater hosted by actor Cary Elwes will highlight the investiture of UC Irvine’s sixth chancellor, Howard Gillman. Officially taking the helm during the campus’s 50th anniversary year, Gillman will talk about his vision for UCI’s regional, national and global impact over the next 50 years. WHEN/WHERE: 2-4 p.m. […]

Dalai Lama

14th Dalai Lama’s 80th birthday to be celebrated with a Global Compassion Summit July 5-7

Three-day summit is presented by Friends of the Dalai Lama in partnership with UCI and Center for Living Peace, with a special world birthday event at Anaheim’s Honda Center

Francisco Javier Mendieta Jimenez speaks with UCI students

Shooting for the stars

Mexican Space Agency hopes partnership with UCI will help develop program’s ‘human capital’

Howard Federoff

Dr. Howard Federoff named UCI vice chancellor for health affairs and dean of medicine

Irvine, Calif., March 11, 2015 — Dr. Howard Federoff – a nationally renowned clinical and research leader at Georgetown University and a groundbreaking investigator for neurological disorders – will join UC Irvine as vice chancellor for health affairs and dean of the School of Medicine. In this position, Federoff will oversee and guide the development […]

UCI School of Law ranks 30th in first year of eligibility

Education, engineering also gain ground on annual U.S. News & World Report list of best graduate schools

UCI study of fruit fly ‘brain in a jar’ reveals mechanics of jet lag

First real-time imaging of intact circadian neural networks shows how light shifts disrupt biological clocks

Nursing science gets top rankings in Western survey

UC Irvine’s Program in Nursing Science has been ranked in the top 5 percent of 200 four-year bachelor’s programs in the western U.S. by NurseJournal.org in its annual survey of America’s best nursing schools. Among comparable programs, it’s 10th in quality, seventh in satisfaction and fifth in value. Overall, it’s the highest-rated nursing program in […]

Connie Pechmann

Twitter helps smokers kick the habit, UCI-Stanford study finds

Hybrid approach combines automated messages with social media platform