Frances Saldaña with a photo of her family

A cause close to her heart

UCI staffer co-founds support group for Huntington’s disease research, care on campus

Southern California sagebrush better suited to climate change, UCI study finds

California sagebrush in the southern part of the state will adjust better to climate change than sagebrush populations in the north, according to UC Irvine researchers in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology affiliated with the Center for Environmental Biology.

UCI chancellor to ink educational partnerships in South Korea

Irvine, Calif., March 27, 2013 – Continuing his effort to expand affiliations with top research universities internationally, UC Irvine Chancellor Michael Drake will travel to South Korea on April 5-6 to visit with leaders in education, business and government. Among his stops are Ewha Womans University, the largest women’s college in the world; Hankuk University […]

UCI receives $1.25 million from Hellman Fellows Fund

Donation supports junior faculty researchers who show tremendous potential

New mechanism for long-term memory formation discovered

UC Irvine neurobiologists have found a novel molecular mechanism that helps trigger the formation of long-term memory. The researchers believe the discovery of this mechanism adds another piece to the puzzle in the ongoing effort to uncover the mysteries of memory and, potentially, certain intellectual disabilities.

UC Irvine’s car-sharing program charges ahead

Irvine, Calif. – A zippy new electric car has arrived at its first American destination, ready for use by commuters to UC Irvine and area businesses. Thirty 2013 Scion iQ electric vehicles are being added to the UC Irvine-administered Zero Emission Vehicle-Network Enabled Transport fleet, via Toyota’s partnership with the campus’s Advanced Power & Energy Program. […]

Georges Van Den Abbeele

Citizen of the world

New humanities dean brings eclectic background to the job

Ryan Schutte

Seeking the source of seizures

Grad student Ryan Schutte’s epilepsy research has earned him a Public Impact Fellowship

Ocean plankton sponge up nearly twice the carbon currently assumed

Irvine, Calif. – Models of carbon dioxide in the world’s oceans need to be revised, according to new work by UC Irvine and other scientists published online Sunday in Nature Geoscience. Trillions of plankton near the surface of warm waters are far more carbon-rich than has long been thought, they found. Global marine temperature fluctuations […]

UCI’s new School of Education jumps in U.S. News’ graduate school ranking

Irvine, Calif., March 12, 2013 – UC Irvine’s School of Education is among a number of campus graduate programs moving up in U.S. News & World Report’s 2014 ranking of “Best Graduate Schools,” announced today. The education school, approved in July by the University of California regents, leaped six spots, to 37th nationwide. Before its […]