Chris Slay

Bacteria teach evolution, climate adaptation

How will Earth’s tiniest organisms adapt to climate warming? UC Irvine scientists are consulting bacteria in an effort to find out.

UCI neuroscientists play key role in new book

UC Irvine’s strength as a top institution for neuroscience research is well represented in the new book, “From Development to…

Genetically Modified Mosquitos

Declaring war on malaria

Anthony James knows mosquitoes, and he knows even more about the disease and illness they spread.

Joerg Meyer

Medicine in 3-D

Researchers at UC Irvine’s California Institute for Telecommunications & Information Technology have developed a new way to transform enormous medical datasets into rotating, three-dimensional images, vastly increasing the potential of the institute’s 200-megapixel display HIPerWall.

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 […]

first place winner in the ''First Steps'' category.

Work it, baby

When a developing baby delivers that first kick inside the womb, it’s a moment of elation for Mom that’s hard to beat.

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.

New Professors

UCI welcomes new faculty

Experts on everything from reconstructing the human hand to interpreting the U.S. Constitution have joined the UC Irvine faculty in the last year.

Buzz about biology

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

‘WALL-E' and the professor

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