Society & Community

Disaster drill aims to aid the elderly

NSF-funded CareDEX project tests Internet of Things technologies in mock emergency

Professor George Tita, director of the School of Social Ecology’s Livable Cities Lab

Urban dwelling

The School of Social Ecology’s Livable Cities Lab studies affordable housing, public safety and social enterprise innovations to improve city life

UCI and BlackBerry win National Science Foundation convergence accelerator grant

Irvine, Calif., Oct. 12, 2022 – The National Science Foundation has awarded $750,000 to a multidisciplinary team from the University of California, Irvine’s Cybersecurity Policy & Research Institute, its Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences and BlackBerry to address the challenges around secure communications on public 5G networks. The funds are being allocated […]

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UCI Podcast: adelí durón on the Latinx Resource Center

The center offers resources and programs for Chicano and Latino students to build community

Photos of Maura Allaire, assistant professor of urban planning & public policy, and Jun Wu, professor of public health.

NSF supports UCI team investigating inequities in drinking water

California water districts and ratepayers will serve as test subjects

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New graduate housing community Verano 8 has grand opening

The new community adds additional 1,055 beds and a community center to the graduate and family housing inventory

Astrophysicist Gregory Benford

Addressing climate change: plants instead of plants?

Rather than an industrial solution to excess atmospheric carbon dioxide, a retired UCI physicist looks to nature

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UCI part of OC group receiving state K-16 Education Collaborative Grant

The $18.1 million award goes to OC Pathways, a consortium made up of the Orange County educators

Aerial photo of the city of Irvine

UCI receives Excellence in Action Award for water conservation

National award recognizes partnership with the Irvine Ranch Water District

OC Affordable Housing Impact Study public release presented by UCI Livable Cities Lab and UCI School of Social Ecology

EVENT:  Livable Cities Lab researchers at the University of California, Irvine, have collected and analyzed years of data to help people separate fact from fiction and pave an informed path to housing solutions. The team will host a public release of its groundbreaking study that explores the real effect on home values and rates of […]