Earlier this week, the College Republicans at UCI were notified by the Student Center & Event Services management that they could not hold events until Spring Quarter 2017 in the areas operated by the Student Center. The decision was based on an insurance-related policy violation, and the group was invited to submit an appeal to the Vice […]
Contrary to inaccurate news reports, The College Republicans at UCI have not been suspended. Only the privilege to book event space through Student Center and Events Services has been revoked through the spring 2017 quarter. The group has not been removed from the campus. They can still book other space for events — classrooms, lecture […]
Kenneth C. Janda has been appointed to a second five-year term as dean of the UCI School of Physical Sciences, effective July 1. The announcement came from Provost & Executive Vice Chancellor Enrique Lavernia. During the last five years, the school has continued to climb in rankings and attract outstanding new faculty and graduate students, and […]
A team of UCI medical students led by sophomore Soe Thein has received the 2016 LGBT Health Achievement Award from the American Medical Student Association. The group, which also included students from UCLA and USC, was honored for hosting the Southern California LGBT Health Conference, which was held Feb. 20 in UCI’s Medical Education Building. […]
A study appearing April 14 in the journal Neuron suggests there may be a new way to change the damaging course of Huntington disease. University of California, Irvine neurobiologists Leslie Thompson and Joseph Ochaba and their colleagues from UCI and from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia have shown that reducing the aberrant accumulation of a particular form of the […]
UCI’s HyperXite team beat out nearly 100 others to finish fifth in the international Hyperloop Pod Design competition Jan. 29-30 at Texas A&M University. The Hyperloop is a concept first proposed by Elon Musk and SpaceX to design and build extreme high speed, energy-efficient transportation. University students and independent engineering teams competed in event, vying for the chance to […]
UCI psychologist’s Lego therapy is benefiting children with autism spectrum disorder
Performing the largest structural brain meta-analysis to date for schizophrenia, an international team of scientists – including a UCI psychiatric researcher – has identified structural brain abnormalities in patients with the disabling brain disorder, providing insight into how the condition may develop and respond to treatment.
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Irvine, Calif., Dec. 16, 2014 – No matter which way you slice it – or in this case, inflate it – minimum wage increases result in long-term job loss, according to David Neumark, UC Irvine Chancellor’s Professor of economics. That’s the finding of a study published last week in the IZA Journal of Labor Policy. “There has […]