Research

The spooky side of science

In the spirit of Halloween, we offer a witches’ brew of peculiar probes and freaky findings by UCI researchers

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN

Scientists celebrate their roles in physics Nobel

Eight UCI physics & astronomy professors are involved in Higgs boson data analysis

Dr. Tallie Z. Baram

Getting inside the child mind

With a major neurology award and $10 million in funding, Dr. Tallie Z. Baram strives to understand early-life brain development

Frank LaFerla

Committed to memory

UCI MIND will host the 24th annual Southern California Alzheimer’s Disease Research Conference on Sept. 20.

Gavin Herbert Eye Institute

A vision realized

New world-class home of Gavin Herbert Eye Institute has been years in the making

Isabella Velicogna

Weighing the Earth’s fate

Isabella Velicogna‘s office in UC Irvine’s Croul Hall looks like it belongs to an artist instead of a university scientist. Her paintings and drawings — including charming sketches of mice — adorn the walls, and colorful, handcrafted mobiles dangle from the ceiling. “In my next life, I will be a children’s book illustrator,” says Velicogna, […]

Jesse Catlin

The marketing of meds

Doctoral candidate in marketing at The Paul Merage School of Business studies how consumers select over-the-counter drugs.

Karen Rook

All the lonely people

UC Irvine psychologist Karen Rook can trace her interest in how loneliness affects the elderly to her childhood, when she saw a much-loved, once-robust grandmother decline markedly after losing her husband. Unable to manage the family farm on her own, her grandmother moved into an apartment. After breaking her hip in a fall, she ended […]

John Dombrink and Robert Sterling with students

Vice and virtue

Amid the riot of books, papers, student exams, posters and paraphernalia in John Dombrink’s office at UC Irvine, one thing stands out: little yellow sticky notes he’s tacked onto a row of file drawers labeled “sin.” Dombrink — who once considered the priesthood before finding his true calling — specializes in sin. The professor of criminology, […]

Michael Clegg

UCI botanist is America’s scientist abroad

With his rosy cheeks and booming laugh, Michael Clegg is often told he resembles Santa Claus, and he logs almost as many miles. The UC Irvine ecology & evolutionary biology professor also is foreign secretary for the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, which means he’s on the road as much as he’s at home in Irvine. […]