Research

UC Irvine-led interdisciplinary team delves into a heated debate about humidity

Under climate change, moist heat stress is expected to worsen public health outcomes

Brandy Lipton, Associate Professor of Health, Society, & Behavior

UC Irvine-led study finds Medicaid telemedicine coverage boosted use, healthcare access

Results could inform state policymakers’ post-pandemic decision-making efforts

For Phase 1 of the EPA’s Environmental Justice Video Challenge for Students, UCI team members created maps pinpointing soil lead contamination hot spots in Santa Ana; the red areas above show where the dirt contains unhealthy levels of the metal. Following Phase 2 of the competition, UCI students and community activists are partnering in a project to use plants and fungus to remove lead from affected locations.

Meeting the environmental justice challenge

UCI graduate students honored by EPA for bioremediation project video

UCI’s 2023-24 Hellman Fellows are (top row, from left) Diu-Huong Nguyen, Nicole Iturriaga, Cyrian Reed and Christopher Miles, as well as (bottom row, from left) Stacy Copp, Salvador Zárate, Herdeline Ardoña and Alexandra Voloshina.

8 UC Irvine faculty members named Hellman Fellows for 2023-24

Grant program supports research by promising assistant professors

Pharmacist involvement in medication refills is found to improve patient care

Effective collaboration can also positively impact primary care providers

Postdoctoral fellow is awarded $100,000 to continue study of fragile X syndrome

Most common inherited cause of autism

Lisa Flanagan

UC Irvine research team identifies glycosylation enzyme critical in brain formation

Findings may contribute to new therapeutic uses for neural stem cells

A chart of photo images of the brains of mouse models used in the study.

UCI study shows traffic-related air pollution in Irvine weakens brain function

Exposure to particulate matter increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease in mouse models

UCI, NASA JPL researchers discover a cause of rapid ice melting in Greenland

Study suggests extent of future sea level rise could be vastly underestimated

Gloria Mark
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UCI Podcast: If you can’t pay attention, you’re not alone

Gloria Mark explains why we’re distracted and how to fight it