Science & Technology

UCI botanist travels the world helping scientific groups

By providing students with technological devices such as iPads and portable ultrasounds, UC Irvine School of Medicine is revolutionizing the way healthcare is taught. For the future doctors, such tools could one day be as standard as the stethoscope.

UCI Professor Diane O’Dowd and others argue science teaching is not properly valued.

An innovative undergraduate course, “Disparities in Medicine,” addresses diversity and how healthcare workers can embrace patients’ distinctive cultural beliefs, languages and faiths to provide better care.

Team creates online maps used by foreign countries to predict – and prepare for – intense rainfall.

Dr. Henry Klassen is discovering new ways to use stem cells to repair the retina, offering new hope for people suffering from retinitis pigmentosa and macular degeneration.

Longtime assistant Nan Collett helps superior memory research in James McGaugh’s lab run smoothly.

UCI students educate, entertain children visiting Santa Ana museum.

Information for folks who watch 60 Minutes episode and want to contact UCI.

UCI team develops iPhone app that mimics a hearing aid and produces basic hearing tests.