Science & Technology

Roger McWilliams

Time traveler

UC Irvine physics & astronomy professor Roger McWilliams often appears to have stepped out of a time machine — from the past. He rides to work on a reproduction vintage bicycle with a wide leather seat and big chrome handlebars. When he does drive a car, it’s a 60-year-old Jaguar that he fixes himself with […]

UCI professor William Cooper and his students count and catalog plastic trash

Fighting the ocean’s plastic pollution

UC Irvine professor William Cooper follows the trail of plastic debris that’s spreading from the coast to the deep sea.

Is oil spill also fouling the air?

UCI researchers find disturbing amounts of certain gases above massive Gulf slick. More study is needed.

UCI epidemiologist Dr. Ralph Delfino

Driving research on traffic pollution

Dr. Ralph Delfino and his colleagues in UCI’s School of Medicine are on the forefront of efforts to understand the role of vehicle exhaust in human illnesses.

Needle and a bee

Synthetic antibodies create buzz

In breakthrough, UCI chemists create synthetic antibodies that block dispersion of bee venom in bloodstream.

Understanding the Alzheimer’s-Parkinson’s link

UCI researchers find the neurodegenerative combo of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases accelerates dementia.

Alumnus Chris Canfield

The game boy behind ‘Rock Band’

Can’t stop playing ‘Rock Band’ or ‘Guitar Hero II’? Blame your addiction on UC Irvine alumnus Chris Canfield, who helped create them.

Jared DiBartolomeo

Reviving toe-tapping ragtime

Through his piano playing, engineering student Jared DiBartolomeo helps revive ragtime for a new generation.

Susan V. Bryant and Manuel N. Gomez

Listening in on Susan Bryant and Manuel Gomez

Two vice chancellors with deep roots at UCI reflect on their careers, forecast their futures.

Down syndrome may hold clues to Alzheimer’s

A UCI research team is studying Down syndrome adults to learn why – and when – cognitive decline is triggered by Alzheimer’s disease.