Students at Hector Godinez Fundamental High School

Forward thinking

UCI partners with Santa Ana ¡Adelante! program to ensure university access for Latinos.

Sierra Leone resident transfers funds via cell phone

Smart money

UCI’s Institute for Money Technology and Financial Inclusion awarded $4.17 million from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Students prepare Evans for contamination simulation

Handle with care

Safety staff do hands-on training with chemistry majors.

David Reinkensmeyer with Robert Sanchez

Can robots take over rehab?

Visiting the iMove center at UC Irvine’s Gross Hall is like being on the set of a sci-fi movie. Here, the merging of machines and humans — the premise of such futuristic films as “Alien” and “The Terminator” — has become a reality. Inside the lab, at Sue & Bill Gross Hall: A CIRM Institute, patients whose […]

Mind over matter

As part of its effort to provide scientifically studied forms of complementary healthcare, the Susan Samueli Center for Integrative Medicine this year began offering courses in mindfulness-based stress reduction. They have been wildly successful.

IMTFI awarded $4.17 million Gates Foundation grant

Gates Foundation grant supports research on monetary practices in developing nations.

A life well scripted

Claire Trevor Professor of Drama Robert Cohen to be feted with festival, theater renamed in his honor.

Steven George

Going with the flow

Biomedical engineers host industry open house to show off micro tissue and other research.

Scene from "Pray the Devil Back to Hell"

Event explores ‘Women, War & Peace'

Event highlighting changing gender roles in world events follows on heels of Nobel Peace Prize 2011 to three women.

Alvin Viray

Patents pending

They call it “the baby monitor,” but it’s nothing like the ones sold at Babies “R” Us that alert parents when junior’s crying in his crib. Developed by UC Irvine pediatrics professor Dr. Dan Cooper, the sophisticated wireless device can detect subtle movements in infants that signal increased risk of cerebral palsy, autism and other neurological […]