UC Irvine News Brief: NIH funds UCI study of link between children's asthma, climate change

Interdisciplinary researchers including Ralph Delfino are awarded more than $400,000 for project.

Remote residential research

UCI psychologist uses Google map technology in study of neighborhood effects.

Professor of the Year Caesar Sereseres

Making the grade

Celebration of Teaching and Excellence in Leadership awards honor faculty and staff.

Hector Parra at Calit2 uses Telios to confer with Dr. Ira Lott

Seeing a specialist — from afar

All five University of California medical schools participate in the Specialty Care Safety Net Initiative, which currently links their specialists with 40 clinics statewide.

UCI's efforts to reduce carbon recognized

Honor rewards operations, curriculum and research designed to mitigate climate change.

Building better lives

When four members of the UC Irvine student chapter of Engineers Without Borders headed to Endana, Kenya, last August to see how they could best help the rural community, it proved to be a real-life pass/fail test in leadership. “We didn’t know what we were getting into,” recalls Morgan Bailey, EWB chapter president and a doctoral candidate […]

2011 Medal

Winners to be recognized at awards dinner in October.

2011 Lauds & Laurels recipients

Awards presented by UCI Alumni Association at May 12 ceremony.

Students give others an (alternative) break

While their peers party on, some UCI students spend spring vacation working on various service projects, from planting a garden at a Native American reservation in San Diego County to putting the shine on the Golden Gate national park in San Francisco.

Social sciences dean Barbara Dosher elected to National Academy of Sciences

UCI faculty now boasts 26 members of the prestigious organization.