NASA selects UCI’s Isabella Velicogna for interdisciplinary Sea Level Change Team

Melting polar ice is causing sea levels to rise around the world, but how much of an increase will the future bring, and where? These are the key questions to be addressed by Isabella Velicogna, UCI Earth system scientist, as a recently named member of NASA’s Sea Level Change Team. She and her research group […]

On the cutting edge of chemistry

Grad student’s year away from UCI results in plutonium science breakthrough

Basis of ‘leaky’ brain blood vessels in Huntington’s disease identified

UCI-led stem cell study points to new treatments for this fatal disorder

UCI staff and faculty participate in the UCI Walks event

UCI is named a platinum-level Fit-Friendly Worksite for sixth year in a row

American Heart Association designation recognizes campus’s employee wellness efforts

Spit personality

UCI researcher finds health and behavior secrets inside human and animal mouths

Pay dirt

Bill Maurer, dean of social sciences, shares a trove of fun facts about money

Mentoring Made the Difference

At UCI, LaShonda Carter ’15 found others who helped her realize her dreams

Researcher testing air pollution in the Middle East

Hazy road to Mecca

Severe air pollution spikes during yearly pilgrimage, UCI and others find

Hazy road to Mecca

Dangerously high levels of air pollutants are being released in Mecca during the hajj, the annual holy pilgrimage in which millions of Muslims on foot and in vehicles converge on the Saudi Arabian city, according to findings reported today at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco.

UCI researchers learn how botulism-causing toxin enters bloodstream

Irvine, Calif., June 19, 2014 — UC Irvine School of Medicine researchers have discovered the mechanism by which bacterial toxins that cause food-borne botulism are absorbed through the intestinal lining and into the bloodstream. Their study, which appears in the June 20 issue of Science, points to new approaches to blocking this poisonous substance. Botulism is a rare […]