California’s wildfire burn area has increased by more than 23,000 acres per year over the past two decades, and the number of people who have been adversely affected has nearly doubled. In a paper published recently in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, UCI researchers show that elderly and low-income residents have […]
Funding will support research in advanced energy and materials science technologies
Suellen Hopfer discusses local attitudes to the COVID-19 vaccine
UCI and UCSD researchers tracked drug usage rates throughout the pandemic
Cognitive impairments due to normal aging may leave some older adults vulnerable to exploitation when making complex decisions with long-term impacts – like those pertaining to medical care and finances. Understanding what these impairments are and how they may be mitigated is the focus of a new UCI study led by Aaron Bornstein, cognitive sciences […]
Funding will support development of innovative implantable electronic stimulation device
Instrument designed to find distant worlds is used to determine the absence of one
UCI astronomers help gather and study data from more than 30 million galaxies
UCI scholars Zachary W. Wagoner, a graduate student researcher in cellular & molecular biosciences, and Weian Zhao, professor of pharmaceutical sciences, have identified a new mechanism by which transplanted stem cells treat disease. Their findings are contrary to the long-standing conventional wisdom that diseased tissue is repaired through stem cells differentiating into new cells or […]
Julie Coffey takes us on the trail of UCI’s white-tailed kites