Research

Renowned leader from UC San Diego will help drive research, delivery innovations at UCI

Physicists from the University of California, Irvine have discovered a new way to control magnets at the nanometer scale by electric current. This breakthrough, detailed in a paper published today in Nature Nanotechnology, may pave the way for the next generation of energy-efficient computers and data centers. “There is growing interest in using magnetic nanoparticles […]

UCI Ph.D. candidate makes headlines with discovery of ‘vegetarian’ species of the feared carnivores

The UCI Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders has been awarded a $500,000 grant from the Orange County Community Foundation’s S.L. Gimbel Foundation Fund. The money will support the testing of 1,200+ FDA-approved compounds to gauge their effectiveness in preventing microglia from destroying brain synapses. Such damage “is seen frequently in patients with Alzheimer’s […]

Secondary school intervention program will spread from California to six other states

The newly formed UCI Center for Medical Humanities – a formal partnership among the Claire Trevor School of the Arts, the School of Humanities and the School of Medicine – has received a $225,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to create a yearlong series called “Suffer Well” that will offer lectures, symposia and […]

UCI, other scientists project sharp declines in barley yields due to climate change

One-degree rise in global winter temps to cause less high country snow accumulation

Philanthropic support lets researcher translate ‘wacky ideas’ into real-world results

UCI expects to double number of graduate students in Cal-Bridge program