EVENT: UCI will host the first gathering of chiefs, governors and presidents of indigenous sovereign nations within the U.S. WHEN/WHERE: 12:30-5:30 p.m. Monday, May 22, at the Arnold & Mabel Beckman Center of the National Academies of Science & Engineering, 100 Academy Drive, on campus INFORMATION: Free and open to the public. Media planning to attend should RSVP […]
Surcharge would reduce airline consumption, lower carbon emissions, UCI study finds
UCI, other researchers link products made there with higher CO2 emissions
Professor Dean Baker, M.D., longtime director of UC Irvine’s Center for Occupational & Environmental Health, has won the Kehoe Award for Excellence from the American College of Occupational & Environmental Medicine for a lifetime of research focused on children’s environmental health, workplace epidemiology, and stress as a factor in cardiovascular disease and immune function.
EVENT: The National Fuel Cell Symposium, hosted by UC Irvine, will bring together top energy and environmental policymakers, industry leaders and academics to discuss rapidly emerging fuel cell technology for power plants and cars, including construction of California’s “hydrogen highway.” WHEN/WHERE: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 27, at the Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences […]
Irvine, Calif., Dec. 10, 2013 – UC Irvine’s Smart Labs program has earned California’s highest environmental honor, the Governor’s Environmental & Economic Leadership Award. Announced Tuesday in Sacramento, the award acknowledges individuals, organizations and businesses that demonstrate exceptional leadership and make notable, voluntary contributions toward conserving California’s precious resources, protecting and enhancing the environment, building […]
Two environmental health and safety programs at UC Irvine have received awards from the Campus Safety, Health & Environmental Management Association. UC Irvine was the only university to win two of the prestigious awards.
Environmental and inherited risk factors associated with multiple sclerosis – previously poorly understood and not known to be connected – converge to alter a critical cellular function linked to the chronic neurologic disease, researchers with the UC Irvine Multiple Sclerosis Research Center have discovered.
UC Irvine’s School of Biological Sciences has formed the Center for Environmental Biology, which will coordinate research partnerships among UCI scientists and neighboring land groups.
UCI visiting scholar wins Mexico’s top environmental award.