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UCI botanist travels the world helping scientific groups

With his rosy cheeks and booming laugh, Michael Clegg is often told he resembles Santa Claus, and he logs almost as many miles. The UC Irvine ecology & evolutionary biology professor also is foreign secretary for the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, which means he’s on the road as much as he’s at home in Irvine. […]

Researchers for the first time have induced robust regeneration of nerve connections that control voluntary movement after spinal cord injury, showing the potential for new therapeutic approaches to paralysis and other motor function impairments.

Biophysicist Shin Lin explores the science behind the mind-body practice of tai chi.

Butterfly experts have suspected for more than 150 years that vision plays a key role in explaining wing color diversity.…

Butterflies that have a duplicate gene allowing them to see ultraviolet colors also have UV-yellow pigment on their wings, reports the study by UCI’s Adriana Briscoe, Seth Bybee and colleagues.

Anteater Recreation Center celebrates 10th anniversary. Jill Schindele, director of Campus Recreation, says the facility is “different things to different people.”

Butterflies that have a duplicate gene allowing them to see ultraviolet colors also have UV-yellow pigment on their wings, reports the study by UCI’s Adriana Briscoe, Seth Bybee and colleagues.

UCI’s Amy Bauer oversees a Web site offering critical analyses of the popular TV show.

Camera in hand, Gilberto Cardenas has chronicled his journey from soldier to undergrad researcher. His photographs have appeared in international scientific journals.