School of Biological Sciences garners $1.6 million in GAANN awards
Three departments – developmental & cell biology, neurobiology & behavior and ecology & evolutionary biology – receive funding for 12 three-year graduate fellowships.
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68 new faculty members welcomed
Eight full professors join the engineering, law and medical schools.
Making the grade
Celebration of Teaching and Excellence in Leadership awards honor faculty and staff.
100 UCI faculty call on D.A. to drop charges against students who disrupted Israeli ambassador’s talk
Letter expresses “deep distress” at district attorney’s decision to prosecute
Scholarships 2010
Scholarship Opportunities Program helps prepare, screen applicants.
Hope for Huntington’s patients
Leslie M. Thompson has her eye on a treatment for the fatal Huntington’s disease. Stem cells may hold the key.
Race against the clock
Ask UC Irvine neuroscientist Leslie M. Thompson to describe how Huntington’s disease affects patients, and she replies by turning to her computer. “I can show you,” she says. She clicks on a video of patients she visited in Venezuela. On-screen, a middle-aged man stands on a street corner, swaying as if intoxicated. A woman, no […]
Institute for Brain Aging and Dementia gets new chief
Neurobiologist Frank LaFerla is taking the reins of the UC Irvine Institute for Brain Aging & Dementia, hoping to boost clinical offerings and move forward with a new building dedicated to Alzheimer’s disease research.