Why look up the facts when you can find “truthiness” in a name? The same scientists who discovered that photographs lend legitimacy to all kinds of claims have discovered a new route
to Stephen Colbert’s “truthiness,” which is the gut feeling that something is true regardless of what the facts support.
UC Irvine study of plant compound’s effectiveness against bladder malignancies has yielded promising results
Irvine, Calif., Feb. 25, 2014 – The University of California, Irvine today announced the creation of the UC Irvine Institute for Innovation, an interdisciplinary and campuswide center focused on integrating research, entrepreneurship and technology to create real-world applications that benefit the public and drive the economy. The institute is envisioned to be “an epicenter of innovation […]
Irvine, Calif., Feb. 20, 2014 — Sue and Ralph Stern have made a $5 million gift to UC Irvine, establishing the Sue and Ralph Stern Center for Cancer Clinical Trials and Research at the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, which is part of UC Irvine Health. The cancer center is Orange County’s only National Cancer Institute-designated […]
UCI professor’s new book explores life lessons gleaned from unorthodox class on death
Anima Anandkumar, assistant professor of electrical engineering & computer science in The Henry Samueli School of Engineering, has been awarded a 2014 Sloan Research Fellowship for her work at the interface of theory and practice of large-scale machine learning and high-dimensional statistics.
Douglas Haynes is a scholar of British history, fan of the TV series and award-winning champion of equity in faculty hiring
Bruce McNaughton, one of the foremost experts on the brain mechanisms underlying memory storage and cognition, has joined the UC Irvine School of Biological Sciences as a Distinguished Professor of neurobiology & behavior.
An engineer, professor, researcher, entrepreneur, wife and mother finds a second home at Calit2
EVENT: UC Irvine Chancellor Michael V. Drake will lead about 50 cyclists on a 25-mile tour of the city of Irvine – fulfilling the Promise for Education he made last fall as part of a University of California systemwide scholarship campaign. He earned the most pledges of any participant, bringing in $21,443. WHEN/WHERE: 9 a.m. […]