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Amal Alachkar discusses reestablishing her career in neuroscience at UCI after fleeing Syria and how she helped develop UCI’s online master’s in pharmacology

Nadia Chernyak, UCI assistant professor of cognitive sciences, has received a $736,366 National Science Foundation CAREER grant to investigate how cognitive skills shape our understanding of equity. Previous research suggests that math skills – particularly comprehension of fractions – can help explain whether or not a child understands fairness and inequality. Chernyak and her team […]

NPR, April 15, 2020

Orange County Business Journal, April 6, 2020

UCI engineers have received $1 million from the National Science Foundation to design integrative approaches for measuring real-time brain activity during social interactions in sleep-disrupted animal models. Early-life sleep disruption has been shown to affect the development of complex social behaviors in prairie voles, the studied model, impairing social bonding in a manner similar to […]

Big data study is first to capture real-time psychological responses to false alarm

Researchers note that, in contrast, slightly older subjects tend to like victors better

Historic March Madness win puts spotlight on a rich sports program that prides itself on making champions both on and off the court

First-gen alumna gives back to UCI program pivotal to her success

UCI program helps low-income, high-potential undergraduates achieve their dreams