100 UCI faculty call on D.A. to drop charges against students who disrupted Israeli ambassador’s talk

Letter expresses “deep distress” at district attorney’s decision to prosecute

UC Irvine News Brief: Elizabeth Cauffman awarded $3.8 million for study of juvenile offenders

Associate professor of psychology & social behavior and education will use funding from the MacArthur Foundation and the federal Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention to determine which youths – in the future – could be diverted from formal processing.

Sarah Rooney grips her new iPad

Tech initiative heralds future of medical education

As part of its new iMedEd Initiative, the medical school has developed a comprehensive, iPad-based curriculum, reinventing how medicine is taught in the 21st century and becoming the first in the nation to offer entering students a completely digital, interactive learning environment.

In breakthrough, nerve connections are regenerated after spinal cord injury

Researchers for the first time have induced robust regeneration of nerve connections that control voluntary movement after spinal cord injury, showing the potential for new therapeutic approaches to paralysis and other motor function impairments.

Incoming UCI medical students to receive iPads loaded with first-year curriculum

At an Aug. 6 ceremony, each member of the UC Irvine School of Medicine’s incoming class of 2014 will find a surprise tucked into their new white coat’s pocket: an iPad tablet computer loaded with everything necessary for the first year of course work.

Aileen Wiglesworth

Uncovering elder abuse

Physical abuse of the elderly has long been difficult to prove because of older people’s propensity to bruise easily and their sometimes-dubious powers of recall, giving perpetrators a handy defense. But thanks to studies by UC Irvine’s Program in Geriatrics, that’s changing. The research has identified bruises most likely caused by abuse and established that […]

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.

Jeff Greenberg, Stephen Jenks and Sung-Jin Kim

Incubating innovation

UCI’s new TechPortal smooths the road from invention to successful commercialization of university-based inventions.

Alumnus Chris Canfield

Game boy

UC Irvine alumnus Chris Canfield designs computer games like “Guitar Hero II” and “Rock Band” for millions of players who want to unleash their inner rock star. To those who once acted out their rock ‘n’ roll fantasies by shredding on a tennis racket or singing into a showerhead, the games are the greatest invention […]

Students protesting state budget cuts to education march on UCI’s Ring Mall during March 4’s “Day of Action.”

Free speech explored on HIPerWall

HIPerWall makes its first foray into community education with “Our Students Speak” display on freedom of expression.