Research

Kalpna Gupta, UCI Visiting Professor, School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Hematology/ Oncology

Nutrition, companionship reduce pain in mice with sickle cell disease, UCI-led study finds

Serotonin-boosting antidepressant duloxetine had same effect, could be opioid alternative

The inspiration behind Black In Neuro

Ph.D. student Angeline Dukes’ drive to bring equity to her field is gaining wide attention

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UCI Podcast: Solving climate change with clean hydrogen fuel

UCI and Orange County are at the forefront of the clean hydrogen revolution

Up-trending farming and landscape disruptions threaten Paris climate agreement goals

UCI-led team tracked global land-use greenhouse gas emissions from 1961 to 2017

Increasing ocean temperature threatens Greenland's ice sheet

UCI and NASA JPL scientists study impact of warm, salty water beneath glaciers

The future of graduate education

UCI deans discuss the importance of diversity in graduate education and why standardized tests are losing favor

Assistant professor of education receives Community Outcomes and Impact Award

Emily Penner, assistant professor of education, and her research partners have received the 2020 Community Outcomes and Impact Award from the International Association for Research on Service-Learning & Community Engagement. Her research partners are Thomas Dee, a professor in Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education, and Bill Sanderson, assistant superintendent of high schools in the […]

A person with a visual disability using Aira to access visual displays in an airport.

Tech for people with visual disabilities

UCI researchers collaborate with Toyota to provide Aira, a visual interpreter service, to the local community during the pandemic

Research team including UCI astronomer finds earliest, most distant known quasar

A team of researchers including a UCI astronomer has discovered the most distant known quasar. Named J0313-1806, the object is 1,000 times more luminous than the Milky Way, and the black hole from which it emanates is 1.6 billion times more massive than the sun. The researchers, led by astronomers from the University of Arizona, […]

UCI scientists measure local vibrational modes at individual crystalline faults

Breakthrough research made possible by advanced microscopic techniques