UCI Public Health adds the Air Pollution Health Effects Laboratory as key research center
Interdisciplinary research scope expanded to cover a wide range of environmental exposures
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Building Solidarity With Communities
UCI researchers across campus take an inclusive, collaborative approach to working in local areas
Superwoman Ambition
UCIAA President Melissa Beck seeks to engage alumni and prompt recognizable change in the world
UCI Public Health launches Center for Environmental Health Disparities Research
Center will be a regional leader in promoting health equity and environmental justice through public health research and practice
UCI, NASA JPL scientists uncover additional threat to Antarctica's floating ice shelves
Thinning of rift-healing slush is identified as a major cause of iceberg calving events
NASA funds project to make STEM learning more inclusive
Through its Minority University Research and Education Project, NASA has granted $750,000 to fund a project proposed by UCI and Oregon State University to expand access to science, technology, engineering and math learning opportunities for underserved students. UCI and OSU are among 10 institutions receiving the Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry award, which is intended to […]
The pandemic slashed the West Coast's emissions. Wildfires already reversed it.
MIT Technology Review, July 27, 2021
California wildfires disproportionately affect elderly and poor residents, UCI study finds
California’s wildfire burn area has increased by more than 23,000 acres per year over the past two decades, and the number of people who have been adversely affected has nearly doubled. In a paper published recently in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, UCI researchers show that elderly and low-income residents have […]
UCI's Velicogna contributes to study stressing benefits of limiting greenhouse gas emissions
Climate model predictions made more precise through use of NASA GRACE satellite data
UCI researchers identify primary causes of Greenland's rapid ice sheet surface melt
Weather station data point to wind- and solar-driven heating as leading culprits