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Undergraduate, graduate speakers at commencement are both first in their families to earn university degrees

TEDxUCIrvine, set for May 31, will explore ‘The Adventure of Discovery’

EVENT :  The global impact of graduate and professional students’ research will be highlighted at the first UC Irvine Associated Graduate Students Symposium.                               WHEN/WHERE:  9 a.m.‑6 p.m. Friday, April 18, UCI Student Center (grid E8, bldg. 113 on campus map. INFORMATION:  The symposium is free and open to the public, with advance or day-of registration […]

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.

In a new study, UC Irvine microbiologist Manuela Raffatellu has found that our immune response can sometimes make us vulnerable to the very bacteria it’s supposed to protect us from.

Year brings scientific advances, national accolades, international outreach, student achievement … and zombies

Inhibitor compounds developed by UC Irvine structural biologists and Northwestern University chemists have been shown to bolster the ability of antibiotics to treat deadly bacterial diseases such as MRSA and anthrax.

UC Irvine neurobiologist Leslie Thompson and mathematician Qing Nie have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

People who can accurately remember details of their daily lives going back decades are as susceptible as everyone else to forming fake memories, UC Irvine psychologists and neurobiologists have found.

In the spirit of Halloween, we offer a witches’ brew of peculiar probes and freaky findings by UCI researchers