Increasing factory and auto emissions disrupt natural cycle in East China Sea
Elements and metals fall from sky, affecting marine ecosystems, UCI-led study finds
January 31, 2017
Research
Mathematician Qing Nie awarded foundation grant to study cancer drug resistance
UCI mathematics professor Qing Nie and his collaborators have been awarded $455,000 to study cancer drug resistance by the Jayne Koskinas Ted Giovanis Foundation for Health & Policy and the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. Along with an interdisciplinary team of experimental cancer biologists, engineers and mathematicians, Nie hopes to identify novel and more effective treatments for patients with breast […]
January 30, 2017
UCI study links teacher training, improved student writing skills
English learners receiving ‘cognitive strategies’ instruction got higher test scores
January 24, 2017
Commute distances have increased for SoCal high- and middle-wage earners, UCI study finds
A UCI study has found that commute distances in Southern California have gotten longer for high- and middle-wage earners but have remained unchanged for low-wage earners. According to the latest quarterly report issued through the School of Social Ecology’s Metropolitan Futures Initiative, between 2002 and 2010, the distance between where high- and middle-income jobs are located and where those […]
January 20, 2017
Devouring data
Calit2 researchers advance biotechnology with fast computers and carnivorous plants
January 18, 2017
UCI researchers map oceanic troughs below ice sheets in West Antarctica
Channels give warm ocean water access to their undersides, speeding glacier retreat
January 18, 2017
Global reach
UCI is sustaining its outsized reputation for tracking and tackling environmental challenges
January 12, 2017
Ahead of the curve
From Nobel Prize-winning findings about the planet’s rapidly changing atmosphere to innovative technologies and solutions, the campus is ahead of the curve on the most daunting challenges of our time. Surging king tides and fiercer storms along the West Coast are being plotted on real-time three-dimensional maps by UCI engineers for Newport Beach and Tijuana, and social […]
January 12, 2017
Award will fund research on privacy decisions by users of connected household devices
Alfred Kobsa, UCI professor of informatics, is part of an international team that recently received $882,000 from the National Science Foundation and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. The award will fund research to improve users’ privacy decisions within the “Internet of Things,” which is the network connectivity among household items that enable them to collect […]
January 11, 2017