Research

Water spout

Encouraging cross-campus collaboration

Multidisciplinary projects focused on data science, medical humanities and water will be funded under new Interschool Academic Initiative program

John Southon and Benjamin Fuller

Down to the bones

UC Irvine researchers sort out the sticky situation at the La Brea Tar Pits by refining methods for measuring the age of fossils

A gamble of global proportions

UCI’s Michael Prather is a lead author on the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report.

carbon-dating fossils

Time travelers

Scientists use radiocarbon dating to analyze everything from the world’s oldest shoe to sediment samples that shed light on global climate change

Henry Pontell

Portrait of the cybercriminal as a young man

Computers have given juveniles the ability to engage in the same kind of white-collar offenses as adults, says Henry Pontell

Athina Markopoulou

A perfect balance

An engineer, professor, researcher, entrepreneur, wife and mother finds a second home at Calit2

Master mentor

Professor Emeritus Dick Taylor and the 30 Ph.D. students he has supervised have transformed the field of ICS

Rachel Martin

Venus flytraps, venom and vision

Rachel Martin’s offbeat interests have led to a potentially eyesight-saving discovery

Highlights of 2013 at UCI

Year brings scientific advances, national accolades, international outreach, student achievement … and zombies

Aphasia Poster

Rendered speechless

Aphasia/stroke victim, UCI expert to launch School of Social Sciences’ 2013-14 lecture series