In the spring of 1968, the School of Social Sciences experimented with short immersion classes. Students could take a series of these classes all day long for a couple of weeks each instead of taking courses concurrently throughout the quarter. This was never repeated, at least while I was at UCI. For that quarter, we […]
California could learn a thing or two from Melbourne, Australia, which halved water use during a decade-plus dry spell with no new rate hikes
Nobel laureate and former UC Irvine biochemist Irwin “Ernie” Rose, who did groundbreaking work on enzymes critical to breaking down and disposing of unwanted proteins in plants and animals, has died. He was 88. Family members said he died in his sleep early Tuesday in Deerfield, Mass.
The Millennium Drought in southeastern Australia forced Greater Melbourne, a city of 4.3 million people, to successfully implement innovations that hold critical lessons for water-stressed regions around the world, according to findings by UC Irvine and Australian researchers.
Alumnus Ian Daelucian launches The Heart of Delight to nurture those in need
UCI researchers pioneer technique permitting unprecedented peek inside neurons at activity of ion channels
Olga Connolly once created an international stir with an Olympic gold medal and a forbidden Cold War-era romance
– Shaul Mukamel, a UC Irvine Distinguished Professor of chemistry who probes molecular secrets using ultrafast pulses of laser light, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
A research team that includes UC Irvine proposes using a laser mounted on the International Space Station to zap threatening space debris.
Planet Earth is surrounded. Thousands of tons of dangerous space debris circles in low orbit, threatening serious damage, even death, if any were to strike the International Space Station. A proposal by a research team that includes UC Irvine could be the answer. In a paper published Friday, April 24, the scientists describe a device […]