Motherhood has long-term effect on wages, occupational status, UCI study finds

Irvine, Calif., Oct. 3, 2014 – Are kids a career killer for women? A new study by UC Irvine sociologists concludes that motherhood imposes a long-term professional penalty from which women in the workforce never fully recover. The career costs are less pronounced in countries that allocate more funds to child care. “Researchers have long […]

Busy people

A look at labor

UCI researchers offer highlights from their studies about work – how we do it, and what we produce

John Southon and Benjamin Fuller

Down to the bones

UC Irvine researchers sort out the sticky situation at the La Brea Tar Pits by refining methods for measuring the age of fossils

Master mentor

Professor Emeritus Dick Taylor and the 30 Ph.D. students he has supervised have transformed the field of ICS

UCI Bookstore book recommendations

Recreational reading

UCI faculty and staff share their summer book selections

Gene Tsudik with the GenoDroid app

Gene genie

UCI smartphone app permits secure storage, testing of DNA data

UCI app safely stores DNA on smartphones

UC Irvine computer scientists have created an app that could allow an individual to securely store and use his or her own DNA on a smartphone. GenoDroid, they said, could potentially be used for paternity and common-ancestry tests, customized cancer-fighting drugs and more.

UCI’s cloned redwoods rooted in research

Grove fell short of great expectations but has proven valuable in Earth system science studies

Following in his footsteps

UCI celebrates prolific career of dance pioneer Donald McKayle.

Larry Overman

Molecular mix master

Chemist Larry Overman, who helped develop the acclaimed department, loves teaching as much as reassembling molecules.