Community healing

For alumna Julianne Toohey, effective health care is more than an individual pursuit

Dreambuilder

Manuel Gómez inspires young people to believe in themselves

Two-way streets

From Belfast to Johannesburg, Sarajevo to Jerusalem, Scott Bollens studies the links between planning and peace

Which way democracy?

Leading a team of social scientists, Russell Dalton is taking the pulse of the governed

Balancing act

Alison Clarke-Stewart weighs research findings with a healthy dose of common sense

Drawing blood

Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Michael Ramirez tackles current events with gusto, sparing no one. He is a self-professed “equal opportunity offender.”

From chaos, order

For economist Art De Vany, the natural order that emerges spontaneously from chaos is more efficient and responsive than anything a planner could devise

A good life

In the work of evolutionary biologist and ordained priest Francisco Ayala, science and religion have found a peaceful coexistence

Of human bonds

A scholar’s exploration of altruism ultimately took her to its opposite, genocide, and to an understanding of the common ground both share

East meets West

UCI researchers using high-tech tools are gaining insight into how the Eastern practice of acupuncture works. New medical treatments may result