Highlights of 2011 at UCI

UC Irvine students, staff and faculty stepped up in the face of another year of budget challenges and fee increases with continued drive, talent and innovation. The results? More research breakthroughs, national honors and global outreach — even a second dodgeball world record. Here are snapshots of UCI 2011. As always, it was quite a […]

Ocean temperatures can be used to predict wildfires

Prediction method could help protect rainforests around the globe.

James Zwerneman

Writing his story

UCI awards first Henfield prize for fiction writing to M.F.A. student James Zwerneman.

Birth control pill blister packs

Birth control pills alter memory

Women using hormonal contraceptives recall emotional events differently, study finds.

UC Irvine News Brief: UCI awards first Henfield Prize for fiction writing to grad student

James Zwerneman, who is currently working on a novel and a collection of stories, receives $10,000.

How the Milky Way's spiral arms are formed

UCI astronomers have modeled how the galaxy’s arms form.

Use of birth control pills alters memory

Women using hormonal contraceptives recall emotional events differently.

UCI studies find different reasons for global methane riddle

One cites less dependency on oil, the other new farming practices.

Hongkai Zhao and his former doctoral student Hao Gao

New MO for CT, MRI, and PET

Mathematicians develop safer, cheaper method of internal imaging.

David Neumark

Not all doom and gloom for Golden State

Study finds weather, geography, industry mix trump traditional business index measures.