Adriana Darielle Mejía Briscoe, UCI professor of ecology & evolutionary biology with a blue butter fly on her hand.

UCI's Adriana Darielle Mejía Briscoe is named a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow

Renowned biologist is among 184 diverse recipients of prestigious award this year

Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building

A Home for Research Partnerships

New campus building reconfigures interdisciplinary collaboration to tackle some of the future’s most complex issues

UCI researchers eavesdrop on cellular conversations

New computational tool decodes biological language of signaling molecules

Rendering of UCI Medical Center Irvine-Newport.

UCI to build world-class hospital on Irvine campus

UCI Medical Center-Irvine will anchor the north campus healing gardens, naturescapes and research preserve

Sea anemones find sweet arrangement with under-skin algae for emergency food source

UCI study offers insights into ways tidepool organisms bond to enhance survival success

UCI vector biologist Anthony James

UC researchers pioneer more effective method of blocking malaria transmission in mosquitoes

New CRISPR-based gene drive approach successfully overcomes issue of resistance in females

UCI study points to how skin cells cooperate to thwart cancer

Findings reveal new information on melanoma development and insights into treatments

In the Know

Students in the burgeoning AI@UCI Club form fast friendships while sharing knowledge and mentoring each other in the applications of artificial intelligence

Microorganisms in parched regions extract needed water from colonized rocks

Interdisciplinary UCI-led team is first to demonstrate long-suspected survival strategy

Turning colon cancer cells around

UCI study finds supplement inhibits cell growth