Science & Technology

Hongkai Zhao and his former doctoral student Hao Gao

New MO for CT, MRI, and PET

Mathematicians develop safer, cheaper method of internal imaging.

Remote residential research

UCI psychologist uses Google map technology in study of neighborhood effects.

Music Glove

An app a day

New Calit2 division uses technology to put patients in control of their health.

Food for thought

Grad student who appeared on ‘Top Chef’ hopes to make science more palatable.

Jessica and Riley Pratt climb a tree

Putting down roots in the tropics

Generous alumni gift guarantees UCI access to tropical studies program.

Steven White

Quantum leaper

Acclaimed for a breakthrough algorithm, physicist Steven White is now first to model a new state of matter.

UCI law students snapped up for summer jobs

Some are working in a clinic to investigate violations of Verizon workers’ rights in a class-action lawsuit.

Catherine Loudon

Going with the flow

Innovative biology course makes the unseen – and its movement – visible.

Mikael Nilsson

Taking the ‘waste’ out of nuclear waste

While spent nuclear fuel continues to pile up by the ton across the United States, engineering professor Mikael Nilsson says the solution is clear: recycle it at the commercial nuclear power plants that create it.

David Neumark

Not all doom and gloom for Golden State

Study finds weather, geography, industry mix trump traditional business index measures.