Press Releases

Science Education

UCI biology professor Diane K. O’Dowd and others outline steps for improvement.

Neumark Incarceration

Married, two-parent households not always best for children, UCI researcher concludes.

UC Irvine Medical Center recognized for heart failure program

American Heart Association recognizes UC Irvine’s high level of care for patients suffering heart failure.

UCI researchers find novel memory-enhancing mechanism in brain

The researchers identified a small protein called neuropeptide S that can strengthen and prolong memories of everything from negative events to simple objects.

Swiss agency approves clinical trial of UCI-created neural stem cell therapy

A therapy developed by Aileen Anderson and Brian Cummings of UC Irvine’s Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center in collaboration with researchers at StemCells Inc. will be the basis of the world’s first clinical trial using human neural stem cells to treat spinal cord injury.

UC Irvine Medical Center is recognized for its commitment to organ donation

US Department of Health & Human Services awards the hospital a Silver Medal of Honor.

Megan Braun is UCI's first Rhodes scholarship winner

She will pursue a master’s in international relations at University of Oxford.

Body clock controls how body burns fat

UC Irvine researchers’discovery helps explain why people burn fat more efficiently at certain times of day and could lead to new pharmaceuticals for obesity, diabetes and energy-related illnesses.

UC and its employees can’t be sued for official acts

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling also protects faculty speech.

Brain bleeding is common with aging, UCI study finds

UCI neurologist Dr. Mark Fisher and neuropathologist Dr. Ronald Kim found that cerebral microbleeds are highly prevalent in the aging brain – and not primarily products of stroke-related injury, hypertension or neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, as had been thought.