Four from UCI named American Association for the Advancement of Science fellows

Four UC Irvine researchers in the areas of medicine, computer science, biological sciences and physics have been made fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society.

Busy people

A look at labor

UCI researchers offer highlights from their studies about work – how we do it, and what we produce

Garden Grove students tour Southeast Asian Archive

On Thursday, Jan. 9, the inaugural Vietnamese American history class at Garden Grove High School toured UC Irvine’s Southeast Asian Archive and learned about the Vietnamese American Oral History Project.

Highlights of 2013 at UCI

Year brings scientific advances, national accolades, international outreach, student achievement … and zombies

The spooky side of science

In the spirit of Halloween, we offer a witches’ brew of peculiar probes and freaky findings by UCI researchers

Walking Dead MOOC professors

Academics take on zombies

Offered through Instructure, the free, eight-week MOOC will explore subjects related to math, public health, social science and physics

New Lawyers Yimeng Dou and Sam Lam

They’re lawyers! They swear!

UCI’s first law school grads pass the bar and are sworn in as California attorneys

Kerry Burnight

In pursuit of happiness

UC Irvine gerontologist Kerry Burnight has learned a lot about how to live well and make the most of each day, not just in later years but now.

Boosting natural marijuana-like brain chemicals treats fragile X syndrome symptoms

UC Irvine and European scientists have found that increasing natural marijuana-like chemicals in the brain can help correct behavioral issues related to fragile X syndrome, the most common known genetic cause of autism.

Researchers Aileen Anderson and Brian Cummings

Science, stem cells and serendipity

Serendipity has played a great part in the careers and personal lives of Aileen Anderson and Brian Cummings, the UC Irvine husband-and-wife team that has helped move stem cell therapy for spinal cord injury a giant step forward. They met as undergraduates at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Cummings would visit his then-girlfriend in her dorm, and […]