Chancellor’s Professor Carol Connor has been awarded a $1.4 million, four-year grant from the Institute of Education Sciences to develop and test a series of digital books that embed strategies to improve reading ability for students in grades 3 to 5. The project involves designing and evaluating e-books that will help children gain a deeper […]
Informatics new hires plan to take beneficial gaming to the next level
UCI teacher development program fosters academic literacy of English learners in middle and high school
UCI MIND takes multipronged approach to finding preventions, cures in effort to avert baby-boom crisis
Trend is most pronounced among the better-educated, UCI study finds
Favorite songs from a person’s past can ease depression, agitation and other symptoms of dementia, says a UCI researcher who donates iPods to nursing homes
UCI study shows maternal infant-rearing link to adolescent depression
Study by UCI sociologist is first to tie low natal weight to biological, social factors three generations deep
UC Irvine’s Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders has received a five-year, $11 million grant from the National Institute on Aging to renew its status as one of only 27 Alzheimer’s Disease Research Centers in the nation – and the only one in Orange County.
A learning technique that maximizes the brain’s ability to make and store memories may help overcome cognitive issues seen in fragile X syndrome, a leading form of intellectual disability, according to UC Irvine neurobiologists.