Research

A (virtual) world without Parkinson’s

UCI anthropologist explores how people with disabilities make use of online environments

Ahead of Their Time

In the spirit of UCI’s forward-thinking founders, campus researchers see beyond the present to create a brilliant future

A New Home for Nursing

Record $40 million gift from Sue and Bill Gross addresses growing need in healthcare

UCI biotech startup places in systemwide competition

Laser Associated Sciences has received $50,000 for placing second in primeUC, a systemwide competition for early-stage companies involved in the development of innovative life science technologies. The competition was part of UC President Janet Napolitano’s Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative, which aims to help startups affiliated with the university. Founded by UCI Beckman Laser Institute graduates Sean White, […]

Is stroke prevention taking a back seat to stroke treatment?

Three-fourths of ER stroke cases had some degree of preventability, UCI survey finds

UCI researchers help demystify key elements of digital disaster communications

Study suggests strategies emergency management agencies can use to promote reposting

New class of inhibitory compounds developed to aid melanoma treatments

UCI-led discovery helps healthy cell processes that can block tumor growth

Study questions value of some urban development pacts

Can low-income neighborhoods share in the profits of a big development project by signing a private contract with the developer? Some urban planners say yes, but Nicholas Marantz, a UCI assistant professor of planning, policy & design, challenges that notion in a study of a project near L.A.’s Staples Center. Writing in the autumn issue […]

UCI part of US effort to find Alzheimer’s biomarkers in people with Down syndrome

National Institute on Aging grants $4.7 million to Dr. Ira Lott’s research team

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University of California scientists create malaria-blocking mosquitoes

New insect model may help eradicate disease that sickens millions annually