Features

Roger McWilliams

Time traveler

UC Irvine physics & astronomy professor Roger McWilliams often appears to have stepped out of a time machine — from the past. He rides to work on a reproduction vintage bicycle with a wide leather seat and big chrome handlebars. When he does drive a car, it’s a 60-year-old Jaguar that he fixes himself with […]

Dr. Rita Mehta

Targeting tumors

In 2003, oncologist Dr. Rita Mehta had “the kind of moment everyone lives for” — everyone, that is, who’s working to find a cure for cancer. Mehta, a health sciences associate professor of medicine at the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, was one of the first researchers to use chemotherapy combined with the drug trastuzumab (trade name […]

UCI professor William Cooper and his students count and catalog plastic trash

Fighting the ocean's plastic pollution

UC Irvine professor William Cooper follows the trail of plastic debris that’s spreading from the coast to the deep sea.

"Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" book sitting in the sand

Beach reading, Anteater style

UCI faculty and staff share their summer book selections.

Connie Parido draws blood from a Long Beach middle school student

A healthy plan for lowering diabetes risks

A school-based diet and exercise program UCI researchers helped create shows significant impact in lowering diabetes risks.

Gary Matkin

Lifelong learning

Award-winning dean of continuing education, discusses the unit’s evolving role in lifelong learning.

Is oil spill also fouling the air?

UCI researchers find disturbing amounts of certain gases above massive Gulf slick. More study is needed.

Fabio Milani

Exploring economic psychology

Irrational optimism or pessimism is linked to a majority of booms and busts occurring since the early 1970s.

UCI epidemiologist Dr. Ralph Delfino

Driving research on traffic pollution

Dr. Ralph Delfino and his colleagues in UCI’s School of Medicine are on the forefront of efforts to understand the role of vehicle exhaust in human illnesses.

Needle and a bee

Synthetic antibodies create buzz

In breakthrough, UCI chemists create synthetic antibodies that block dispersion of bee venom in bloodstream.