Serious about sobriety

UC Irvine launches new measures to promote campus safety and prevent alcohol abuse.

UC Irvine Advisory: Aging brain

Denise Park of the University of Texas at Dallas will discuss “The Scaffolded Mind: How Your Brain Adapts to Aging” as part of the UC Irvine Distinguished Lecture Series on Brain, Learning & Memory.

Tom Lane

Could stem cells reverse MS?

Biologist Tom Lane and a team of UCI researchers are leading an effort to determine whether a stem-cell-based treatment can repair neurological damage caused by multiple sclerosis.

Telescope tuner's focus: sharper images

UCI physicist Gary Chanan focuses on fine-tuning the world’s largest telescopes.

Sheena Nahm

Show biz becomes academic

UC Irvine graduate finds her niche in the emerging field of entertainment education doing research fro medical shows.

Gorilla malaria

UCI, French study finds that gorillas carry malignant malaria parasite.

Neuron stroke

People with impaired mobility after a stroke soon may have a therapy that restores limb function long after the injury, if a supplemental protein works as well in humans as it does in paralyzed rats.

People practicing Tai chi

A guide to healthy aging

UCI’s Dr. Sonia Sehgal acts as a decade-by-decade guide on the path to healthy aging.

Angelo Giuliano

Staging a comeback from cancer

A Laguna Beach man was helping his neighbor, a UCI oncologist, with a fundraising campaign for young adult cancer patients when he joined their ranks.

Ian Parker Photo

Going to extremes

Few people could match the intensity and perseverance of UC Irvine neurobiologist Ian Parker. Maybe they’re not passionate enough about photography to lie in puddles, drive thousands of miles, scale sheer cliffs, sleep outside in the cold, fight altitude sickness and rise hours before the sun. Maybe they’re not so bent on studying cells that […]