New Professors

UCI welcomes new faculty

Experts on everything from reconstructing the human hand to interpreting the U.S. Constitution have joined the UC Irvine faculty in the last year.

Fighting poverty, protecting the planet

Heather Goldsworthy hopes to show that economic development and environmental protection can coexist

Timothy Osborne

Guarding against toxins

Toxins in food often have a bad, bitter taste that makes people want to spit them out. It’s one way the body defends itself.

Small intestine can sense and react to bitter toxins in food

Toxins in food often have a bad, bitter taste that makes people want to spit them out. New UC Irvine…

Science by fire

Scientific glassblower Jorg Meyer has contributed to chemistry discoveries for more than four decades

Study by graduate finds cleaning up environment could save lives in Russia

Nearly 400,000 Russians die each year due to heart disease, but a study by a recent UC Irvine graduate found…

Hot shots

New researchers elevate climate change research

Blueprint for success

A conversation with University Hospital construction manager Donald Holm

UCI Earth scientist helps write new federal climate change report

Jim Randerson, associate professor of Earth system science at UC Irvine, helped write a new federal report that links a…

Center of attention

Built on a grand scale, a new student center becomes the campus’s long-awaited social hub