Press Releases

Dr. Johnny Delashaw joins UC Irvine as chair of neurological surgery

Dr. Johnny Delashaw, who has earned international acclaim for his expertise in skull base, pituitary and cerebrovascular surgery, has joined UC Irvine’s School of Medicine as chair of the Department of Neurological Surgery.

UCI delegation returns from academic trip to Israel

Highlights included a meeting with Israel President Shimon Peres.

UCI senior wins Truman Scholarship

Felipe Hernandez, a double major in music and political science, is one of 54 students nationwide to earn the public-service award.

Julius Margolis, UCI professor emeritus of economics, dies at 91

His prominence helped attract top-flight economists faculty to a relatively young School of Social Sciences in 1976.

Jordan's Queen Noor to speak at UCI on diversity, cooperation

The widow of King Al Hussein is interested in education, conservation, sustainable development, human rights and cross-cultural understanding, as well as their application to human security.

Circadian rhythms have profound influence on metabolic output, UCI study reveals

By analyzing the hundreds of metabolic products present in the liver, researchers with the UC Irvine Center for Epigenetics & Metabolism have discovered that circadian rhythms – our own body clock – greatly control the production of such key building blocks as amino acids, carbohydrates and lipids.

Pacific Breast Care, Dr. Alice Police strengthen women's health services with UC Irvine affiliation

Orange County’s preeminent breast health center joins forces with UC Irvine, which will provide access to comprehensive cancer center and clinical trials.

Study highlights success, challenges of Orange County's stroke care system

Orange County system created to improve emergency stroke care takes patients to the hospitals most prepared to treat stroke. UC Irvine stroke neurologist Steven Cramer, MD, analyzes success.

UCI-led study uncovers how salmonella avoids the body's immune response

UC Irvine researchers have discovered how salmonella, a bacterium found in contaminated raw foods that causes major gastrointestinal distress in humans, thrives in the digestive tract despite the immune system’s best efforts to destroy it.

UCI Nobel Laureate F. Sherwood Rowland passes away at 84

Renowned chemist and founding faculty member discovered that aerosol propellants were creating a hole in Earth’s ozone layer.