Research

Study shows how restoring overstocked forests can yield multiple, diverse benefits

Mechanical thinning of California’s forests can reduce the severity of wildfires by eliminating built-up vegetation that fuels blazes. According to researchers at UCI, UC Merced and the UC Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, scientifically based forest management practices could also curtail CO2 emissions from fires, promote carbon storage in remaining trees, and improve the […]

The UCI cross-disciplinary graduate student team won first place in Phase 1 of the EPA’s Environmental Justice Video Challenge for Students, in which they revealed the lead soil contamination threat in Santa Ana. (From left: Annika Hjelmstad, Ashley Green, David Bañuelas, Tim Schütz, Ariane Jong, and Alexis Guerra.)

UCI takes first place in EPA Environmental Justice Video Challenge for Students

Cross-disciplinary graduate student team reveals lead soil contamination threat in Santa Ana

Astrophysicist Gregory Benford

Addressing climate change: plants instead of plants?

Rather than an industrial solution to excess atmospheric carbon dioxide, a retired UCI physicist looks to nature

John Chaput

UCI-developed COVID-19 test detects, identifies specific variants with 100% accuracy

RNA-based method advances personalized medicine for improved patient care

Alpesh Amin

Precision health perspectives

Alpesh Amin discusses how utilizing health data can lead to the very best care and chance for good health

A trio of participants graduating from the Orange County Young Adult Court in October 2021 bookend two of the program’s key collaborators, Orange County Superior Court Judge Maria Hernandez (second from left) and UCI Professor Elizabeth Cauffman (center).

UCI awarded $10.1 million grant to expand O.C. Young Adult Court study

Funding will provide more extensive wraparound services for program participants

Selma Masri

Circadian clock watchers

Selma Masri and her lab team explore the links between cancer and our internal timekeeper

Benis Egoh, UCI assistant professor of Earth system science

Seeing the forest through the trees

Three questions with Benis Egoh, UCI assistant professor of Earth system science, who explores arboreal ecosystems

View of planet Earth

Earth guardians

UCI researchers seek solutions to the many effects of climate change

What gene changes and blood could tell us about the opioid crisis

UCI scientists win $3.5 million grant for bold addiction research