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Thomas Parham, new interim vice chancellor for student affairs, has long history of social advocacy, community service and youth empowerment.

E. Alison Holman, an assistant professor in UC Irvine’s Program in Nursing Science and a health psychologist, has been selected to receive a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholars award to study how genes influence acute and post-traumatic stress and their role in cardiovascular disorders among those who experience traumatic events.

Frank LaFerla, David Cribbs, Nabil Dagher, Nick Castello and Rodrigo Medeiros will pedal from Los Angeles to Palm Springs as part of a cross-country effort to make the disease a national priority.

A school-based diet and exercise program UCI researchers helped create shows significant impact in lowering diabetes risks.

Healthier cafeteria choices, longer and more intense periods of physical activity and robust in-school education programs can lower rates of obesity and other risk factors for type 2 diabetes, according to a national study called HEALTHY.

The political science instructor and director of international studies at UCI will be part of a six-witness group with differing views on whether some or all security tasks are “inherently governmental functions” that should not be contracted out to private businesses.

The Chancellor’s Professor of criminology, law & society was named a Thorsten Sellin Fellow in recognition of her research on immigration law and policy.

UCI research group uses collaborative filtering to build a better online carbon footprint calculator.

UCI doctors Kristi Koenig and Carl Schultz wrote the book on disaster medicine. Its publication comes amid debate on the way medical care is delivered in a crisis.

Ayala, evolutionary biologist, will donate his $1.5 million Templeton Prize to support graduate education in biological sciences at UCI.