Greg Duncan

Breaking the poverty cycle

Greg Duncan finds that an income boost for poor families with young children leads to improved academic performance and lifetime earnings.

a Haitian boy receives treatment at a medical clinic at the United Nations Stabilization Mission's logistics base

Hope for Haiti's future

As Haiti begins rebuilding after a devastating earthquake, three UCI professors discuss how it could emerge a stronger country.

UC Irvine News Brief: Marine conservation topic of daylong symposium

Part of the “Toward a Sustainable 21st Century” series, it will take place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, May 14, at the Arnold & Mabel Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences & Engineering.

Speaking of Jack

Campus and community leaders recall working with the multifaceted Jack Peltason.

Soil microbes produce less atmospheric CO2 than expected with climate warming

As global temperatures increase, microbes in soil become less efficient over time at converting carbon in soil into carbon dioxide, a key contributor to climate warming.

Renaissance of the Russian guitar

From Russian guitars to classical lute, John Schneiderman plucks his way through musical history.

NSF scholarships

UC Irvine hits record increases in National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships.

Alumni Regent.

UCI’s Bruce Hallett ’78 will join University of California Regents July 1 as alumni representative.

Port-au-Prince hours after earthquake.

From the ground up

It took scarcely 35 seconds Jan. 12 for a magnitude 7.0 earthquake to cripple Haiti, flattening its capital and killing more than 200,000 people, but it will take many years for the island nation to recover. While devastating quakes have since struck in Chile, Japan and elsewhere, Haiti’s situation is unique. Desperately poor before the […]

Ayala Templeton

Francisco Ayala, UC Irvine professor of ecology & evolutionary biology, who has vigorously opposed the entanglement of science and religion while also calling for mutual respect between the two, has won the 2010 Templeton Prize.