Brian Fargo and Dr. Hamid Djalilian

Brian Fargo, inXile founder, gives $1 million to advance UCI research for tinnitus treatment

Funding will support development of innovative implantable electronic stimulation device

AAPI student researchers talk about what it was like to photograph the COVID-19 impact on local communities

Daily Pilot, May 13, 2021

UCI researchers win $2 million NIH grant to develop biologic implant for spinal facet joints

The National Institutes of Health has awarded $2 million to researchers in UCI’s Henry Samueli School of Engineering to develop a biologic implant for the spinal facet joint. This grant, given to a team led by Kyriacos Athanasiou, Henry Samueli Chair in Engineering and Distinguished Professor of biomedical engineering, will be the first to focus […]

Emily Penner, UCI assistant professor of education and William T. Grant Scholar.

Emily Penner among 5 early-career US researchers named William T. Grant Scholars

UCI assistant professor of education seeks to advance high school ethnic studies teaching

UCI researchers identify primary causes of Greenland’s rapid ice sheet surface melt

Weather station data point to wind- and solar-driven heating as leading culprits

Million-dollar grant supports research on family engagement among the incarcerated

Social ecology team to lead the comprehensive assessment

Test accurately identifies those at risk for severe COVID-19, researchers say

UPI, April 28, 2021

UCI researchers co-author editorial on impact of work stressors on the severity of COVID-19

The pandemic has caused much uncertainty, anxiety and stress, touching on every aspect of our lives. The impact of work stressors on the severity of COVID-19, particularly among essential workers, is discussed in an editorial published online in the April 2021 Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and co-authored by UCI’s Peter Schnall, professor emeritus […]

Pharmaceutical sciences researcher gets NIH award for drug discovery tech development

The National Institutes of Health has granted $2 million to researchers in UCI’s School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences. The new Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award will fund drug discovery technology development in the laboratory of Brian Paegel, UCI professor of pharmaceutical sciences. “The NIH has generously supported my laboratory over the years in reaction miniaturization […]

Robotics research leader Magnus Egerstedt named dean of UCI engineering school

New role will center on envisioning post-pandemic research and education