Research

Waning influence of once-telling weather patterns altered by global warming skews projections

UCI researchers are first to focus on long-term benefits of federal provision

UCI Applied Innovation smooths the way for Anteater research to become commercial products and benefit society

UCI stem cell researchers have received $1.6 million from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to create a new line of neural stem cells that can be used to treat chronicle cervical spinal cord injury. Aileen Anderson, director of the Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center at UCI, will lead the effort. The […]

UCI-built apparatus helps scientists probe the unknown

Social ecologists probe positive, negative effects of digital technology

For more than 30 years as a researcher at INSERM – the French equivalent of the National Institutes of Health – and the UCI School of Medicine, Emiliana Borrelli has earned international recognition for her studies on the neurotransmitter dopamine and its role in brain diseases, movement disorders and addiction. This fall, the Chancellor’s Professor […]

Enhanced monitoring tool adds groundwater storage to assessment factors

UCI environmental engineer Sunny Jiang traveled to St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, in the second half of November as part of a National Science Foundation Rapid Response Research project. Almost two months after two Category 5 hurricanes (Irma and Maria) struck the region, Jiang and her U.S. Geological Survey collaborator Christina Kellogg gathered samples for water […]

If you’re planning on tuning into “The Big Bang Theory” for a few laughs this Thursday evening, you may also get to see how a team of UCI physicists proposes to detect dark matter and forces in the universe. Based on a quirky group of Caltech researchers, the hit CBS TV comedy often features in […]