Faculty

Neuroscientist James Fallon

Killer instinct

It’s a lecture UC Irvine neuroscientist James Fallon has delivered around the world, even on the hit TV show “Criminal Minds.” Discussing the biological traits of murderers, Fallon describes how he correctly identified 30 killers out of 70 subjects in a double-blind experiment simply by studying their brain scans. Audiences are fascinated. But a couple years ago, […]

The new medical education building

Blazing a trail for 21st century medicine

The new medical education facility was designed with future of healthcare – and the planet – in mind.

Melissa Strong, Maya Koike, Kara Neely and Emily Mitchell

ReMIND builds community of young brain scientists

Graduate students have formed a group called ReMIND – short for Research & Education in Memory Impairments & Neurological Disorders – to better understand and cure neurodegenerative diseases.

Sheron Wray

Blending jazz, African dance, technology

Sheron Wray, choreographer and assistant professor of dance, lets audiences shape stage productions – via text messaging.

Randy Black

Grant writer extraordinaire

Randy Black’s way with words has earned UCI millions in research grants and earned him a Living Our Values Award.

Flightless mosquitoes help control dengue fever

A new strain of mosquitoes in which females cannot fly may help curb the transmission of dengue fever, according to UC Irvine and British scientists.

Glacier in West Greenland

Warmer ocean speeding Greenland glacier melt

Glaciers in West Greenland are melting 100 times more rapidly at their end points beneath the ocean than they are at their surfaces, according to a UC Irvine/NASA study.

Heliconius erato butterfly

Butterfly vision, wing colors linked

Butterflies that have a duplicate gene allowing them to see ultraviolet colors also have UV-yellow pigment on their wings, reports the study by UCI’s Adriana Briscoe, Seth Bybee and colleagues.

Advancing high-tech breast cancer care

Handheld laser scanner developed at UCI improves detection, diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer.

ARC celebrates 10th anniversary

Anteater Recreation Center celebrates 10th anniversary. Jill Schindele, director of Campus Recreation, says the facility is “different things to different people.”