UC Irvine News Brief: Famiglietti, Southon named American Geophysical Union fellows

“This designation is conferred upon not more than 0.1 percent of all AGU members in any given year,” says the organization’s website.

UC Irvine News Brief: UCI biologists turn up the heat on bacteria, discover mutation pattern

Findings by Brandon Gaut, Albert Bennett and Anthony Long appear in the current issue of the journal Science.

UC Irvine News Brief: Talk marks UCI's 10th anniversary promoting gender equity in science

Diana Bilimoria will speak at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 1, in the Student Center’s Doheny Beach Room B.

UC Irvine News Brief: Wickramasinghe is awarded $1 million Keck Foundation grant

The electrical engineer and computer scientist will lead a project to develop new equipment for the analysis of messenger ribonucleic acid levels in space and time within a living cell.

UC Irvine News Brief: Study suggests patent protection may dampen innovation

Finding by UCI and University of Kansas researchers builds on earlier work about the effect of the patent system on the inventive process.

UC Irvine News Brief: UCI recognized for reducing use of lead wheel weights on campus vehicles

Environmental Protection Agency program honors university for replacing 300 pounds of the toxic devices with steel versions.

UC Irvine News Brief: Cecile Whiting to give talk on work of L.A. artist Ed Ruscha

In support of a current UCI Libraries exhibit, the professor and chair of art history will discuss his early books.

UC Irvine News Brief: New master's program to foster biomedical and clinical research

One of the first of its kind in the nation, it will prepare emerging doctors and scientists to turn basic findings into new patient treatments.

UC Irvine News Brief: UCI's OpenCourseWare initiative wins wide-ranging recognition

Just five years after launching the program – which makes high-quality, university-level classes available for free online – the university has captured five prestigious awards.

UC Irvine News Brief: Seymour Menton awarded Mexico's highest honor for foreigners

The UCI professor emeritus of Spanish & Portuguese was given the Order of the Aztec Eagle for his teaching and dissemination of Mexican literature and culture in the U.S., Latin America and many parts of Europe since 1948.