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Jed Brubaker’s graduate research guides Facebook’s new policy on postmortem account stewardship

UC Irvine has been selected, through a competitive bid process, to host a Water-Energy Nexus Workshop this spring. The goal is to distill lessons from Western U.S. states and develop recommendations to enable water and electrical utilities and other stakeholders to enhance effectiveness and efficiency in usage. Spearheaded by the University of California and the […]

Grasp of underlying molecular mechanisms could improve addiction recovery efforts

Driving on the 405 freeway in Orange County rush-hour traffic, Sarah Pressman can be forgiven if she doesn’t feel like smiling. When other cars cut her off or ride her bumper, she’s tempted to do what many commuters do: curse or engage in some creative sign language. But she grins and bears it – even […]

The residency program in the Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Care at UC Irvine has received a full five-year accreditation…

UC Irvine is one of the nation’s best universities for students seeking great academics, outstanding career preparation and generous financial aid – according to The Princeton Review. The campus placed 42nd out of 200 schools that the education services company profiles in its just-published book “Colleges That Pay You Back: The 200 Best Value Colleges & What It Takes to Get In – 2015 Edition.”

Siblings Gina and Jenae Heitkamp, winners of the 2014 Business Plan Competition at UC Irvine’s Paul Merage School of Business, are breaking glass ceilings: first all-female team to win, first sister team to make the finals and first toy idea to take the 11-year-old contest. Their company, iBesties, is a line of books, dolls and […]

Irvine, Calif., Feb. 2, 2015 – For a better understanding of how forest fires behave and interact with climate, scientists are turning to the trees. A new study out of UC Irvine shows that differences in individual tree species between Eurasia and North America alter the continental patterns of fire – and that blazes burning […]

EVENT: The Los Angeles/Irvine Brain Bee is an annual local neuroscience competition for high school students. The event includes written and oral questions about brain facts, a tour of the UC Irvine campus, the opportunity to network with professors and students, and scientific demonstrations. WHEN/WHERE: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 7, in Room 1100 of […]

The W.M. Keck Foundation has awarded $2 million to UC Irvine to develop a photonic “magnetic nanoprobe,” a microscope able to amplify, detect and possibly manipulate the extremely weak optical-frequency magnetic fields in matter.