Press Releases

Peter Ditto

Political liberals display greater happiness, UCI study finds

Results contradict earlier self-reports of higher spirits among conservatives

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

Connie Pechmann

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

Hybrid approach combines automated messages with social media platform

Charles Limoli

Human neural stem cells restore cognitive functions impaired by chemotherapy

UCI study reveals how they alleviate ‘chemobrain’ after cancer treatments

UCI, Italian scientists limit accelerated cellular aging caused by methamphetamine use

Grasp of underlying molecular mechanisms could improve addiction recovery efforts

Tree species influence boreal forest fire behavior and subsequent effects on climate

Irvine, Calif., Feb. 2, 2015 – For a better understanding of how forest fires behave and interact with climate, scientists are turning to the trees. A new study out of UC Irvine shows that differences in individual tree species between Eurasia and North America alter the continental patterns of fire – and that blazes burning […]

UCI gets $2 million from Keck Foundation for photonic microscope

The W.M. Keck Foundation has awarded $2 million to UC Irvine to develop a photonic “magnetic nanoprobe,” a microscope able to amplify, detect and possibly manipulate the extremely weak optical-frequency magnetic fields in matter.

Norman Rostoker

UCI nuclear fusion pioneer Norman Rostoker dies at 89

Clean-energy champion also co-founded Tri Alpha Energy