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Innovative teachers shake up traditional lectures to engage students and improve learning
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UCI to participate in major federal effort to improve childhood health
Research to focus on effects of maternal experiences, environmental factors
Hot, dry and human-caused
UCI and other scientists say Californians must learn to live within the state’s new climate
Team science is better science, new report says
Daniel Stokols, professor emeritus of planning, policy & design, and Judith Olson, professor of informatics, are co-authors of a new report from the National Research Council that concludes scientific research is increasingly dominated by teams–a promising approach that is also rife with challenges. The report is likely to have major public policy and research funding implications […]
34 UCI students win Graduate Research Fellowships
UCI’s Department of Chemistry has received nine Graduate Research Fellowships from the National Science Foundation – among 34 bestowed campuswide and 2,000 nationwide. Another two fellowships went to the Department of Earth System Science, also in the School of Physical Sciences.
A look at labor
UCI researchers offer highlights from their studies about work – how we do it, and what we produce
Words from the wise
Undergraduate, graduate speakers at commencement are both first in their families to earn university degrees
Portrait of the cybercriminal as a young man
Computers have given juveniles the ability to engage in the same kind of white-collar offenses as adults, says Henry Pontell
People with highly superior powers of recall also vulnerable to false memories
People who can accurately remember details of their daily lives going back decades are as susceptible as everyone else to forming fake memories, UC Irvine psychologists and neurobiologists have found.
Daily stress takes a toll on long-term mental health, UCI-led study finds
Irvine, Calif., April 2, 2013 – Our emotional responses to the stresses of daily life may predict our long-term mental health, according to a new study led by a UC Irvine psychologist. The research, which appears online in the journal Psychological Science, suggests that maintaining emotional balance is crucial to avoiding severe mental health problems […]