Koohyar Karimi

Chasing beauty

UC Irvine alumnus Koohyar Karimi ’08 thinks he’s found the perfect woman. She has even features, eyebrows that arch at just the right angle, and – as he poetically puts it – “the distance from her subnasale [nostrils] to the cupid’s bow of her lips is exactly one-third the distance from the parting of her lips […]

"Mavericks" on top of the white house seal

Political maverick paradox

Republican Sen. John McCain has staked his bid for the U.S. presidency on his reputation as a “political maverick,” a politician who is unafraid to cross party lines to “vote his conscience” on important policy issues.

NASA rendering of the Blended-Wing-Body aircraft

Futuristic air travel

Sharp increases in the price of jet fuel and growing concerns about sustainability have spurred demand for greener, more efficient aircraft, and UCI researchers could help shape the future of commercial aeronautics.

Dr. Arthur Lander

Explaining life through systems biology

UC Irvine is a hot spot for systems biology, a new approach to learning why the human body and other organisms work the way they do.

Buzz about biology

Rebecca Aicher shares her passion for plant ecology with high school biology students

Obama and the youth vote

Q&A with political science professor Russell Dalton

‘WALL-E’ and the professor

Biologist James Hicks plays a behind-the-scenes role in Disney/Pixar’s popular animated movie

Giving students their wings

Evolutionary biologist Adriana Mejía Briscoe studies butterflies while helping launch young researchers’ careers

Defying gravity

Dr. Roger Walsh, professor, psychiatrist and philosopher, reflects on the uplifting power of meditation

Butterfly biologist earns award for her work with women, minority scientists

Adriana Briscoe, ecology and evolutionary biology associate professor, uses the beauty of butterflies and their spectacular biology to attract and…