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Psychology & social behavior professor Roxane Cohen Silver’s work sheds light on human resilience after natural disasters and terrorist attacks. Her latest study, co-authored with doctoral graduate in psychology & social behavior Dana Garfin and associate professor of nursing science E. Alison Holman,  examines the relationship between acute stress responses to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings […]

Alums Beth Malone and Tim Kashani have been nominated for Tony Awards.

In a study appearing in The Journal of Neuroscience, UCI neurobiologists report that dietary deficiencies in the type of fatty acids found in fish and other foods can limit brain growth during fetal development and early in life. The findings suggest that women maintain a balanced diet rich in these fatty acids for themselves during pregnancy and for their babies after birth.

Founding faculty member Robert Cohen has had a dramatic role in shaping UCI arts

Graduate students in UCI’s costume design program draw their own patterns for success

Stepping away from the television, computer screen or smartphone in the aftermath of terrorist attacks or mass shootings may be beneficial to your mental health. That’s the takeaway from a new study by UC Irvine researchers showing that six or more daily hours of exposure to media coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings in the week afterward was linked to more acute stress than having been at or near the marathon. Acute stress symptoms increased with each additional hour of bombing-related media exposure via television, social media, videos, print or radio.

Jon Lovitz recalls his journey from UC Irvine to ‘Saturday Night Live’ stardom

Dudley Knight, professor emeritus of drama in the Claire Trevor School of the Arts, died Thursday, June 27, of a heart attack. He would have been 74 on July 1.

Irvine, Calif., June 10, 2013 – The least massive galaxy in the known universe has been measured by UC Irvine scientists, clocking in at just 1,000 or so stars with a bit of dark matter holding them together. The findings, made with the world’s most powerful telescopes at the W. M. Keck Observatory and published today […]

Psychology & social behavior professor Roxane Cohen Silver participated Thursday, April 25, in a congressional briefing in Washington, D.C., and during the trip also was awarded a National Science Foundation rapid response research grant to examine the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings.