Greenfield-led panel suggests U.S. medical priorities
An influential Institute of Medicine advisory panel co-chaired by Dr. Sheldon Greenfield, the Donald Bren Professor of Medicine at UC…
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Anesthesiology program addresses mind, body, spirit
Program to address anxiety before surgery helps reduce postoperative discomfort and could even lower the amount of pain medication needed
Orange County: paradise lost?
John Hipp, assistant professor of criminology, law & society, studies the impact of demographic changes in Orange County.
Making surgery less scary for kids
Pediatric surgery can be traumatic for children – and their parents. To guide families through the experience, Dr. Zeev Kain, chair of UC Irvine’s Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Care, is creating a unique Internet site to help parents ease children’s anxiety (and their own), properly manage postsurgical pain and, ultimately, facilitate healing.
Wave of the future
All too often, a stethoscope and a doctor’s touch are still the primary tools for diagnosing emergency-room patients. UC Irvine physician Chris Fox aims to change that. Rather than feeling for a broken bone or swollen abdomen or merely listening to the heart, Fox has trained UC Irvine Medical Center’s emergency department clinicians to use the latest in lightweight, high-resolution […]
End of an era
After 35 years at UC Irvine, Sally Peterson retired June 30 from her official job as dean of students, assistant vice chancellor of student affairs — and, unofficially, university den mother, cheerleader, enforcer, negotiator, coach and mentor. During her tenure, Peterson played a major role in campus life, initiating activities, programs and policies that helped […]
Wind + water = untapped energy
Wind energy over the planet’s oceans is a vastly underutilized renewable resource, according to UC Irvine researchers.
Lupton sisters offer fresh look at everyday objects
Julia Lupton, UC Irvine Chancellor’s Fellow and English professor, and her twin sister, graphic designer Ellen Lupton, recently published Design…
Social scientist looks at how the eye sees color
Variations in how people perceive colors and how those same colors appear on TV, computers and other media have confounded…
Raising the bar
Rachel F. Moran is on a mission. As a founding faculty member at the University of California, Irvine School of Law and the newly elected president of the Association of American Law Schools, she seeks the return of the citizen-lawyer, who not only represents clients but helps improve society. “The vaunted image of the citizen-lawyer, […]