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Theresa Duong

Giving back to her community

Ph.D. student Theresa Duong seeks to raise awareness of HPV among Vietnamese-Americans

January 10, 2022
Connie Valencia

For Connie Valencia, this research is personal

The public health doctoral student’s dissertation looks at the community impacts of air pollution in her home neighborhood of Boyle Heights

January 03, 2022
Miriam Bender

Defining the ‘what’ and ‘how’ of nursing

UCI center takes philosophical approach to unique profession

December 20, 2021
Professor of cognitive science Sara Mednick in her sleep lab.

UCI-led study is first to find that long- and short-term memory vie for brain space

Competition for cognitive processing resources during sleep comes at a cost to each

December 14, 2021
four faces smiling

Four graduate students are 2021-2022 Public Impact Distinguished Fellows

Out of 51 total applications from graduate students, 14 finalists were selected to compete for the four 2021-2022 Public Impact Distinguished Fellowships, each with a $12,000 award. The remaining 10 finalists are Public Impact Fellows and receive $1,000 in fellowship funding. Public Impact Fellowships highlight and support Ph.D. or MFA students whose current research has […]

December 10, 2021
The FASER particle detector that received CERN approval to be installed at the Large Hadron Collider in 2019 has recently been augmented with an instrument to detect neutrinos.

UCI-led team of physicists detects signs of neutrinos at Large Hadron Collider

Scientific first at CERN facility a preview of upcoming 3-year research campaign

November 24, 2021

UCI invention lets people pay for purchases with a high-five

Innovative fabric enables digital communication between wearers, nearby devices

November 16, 2021
Zayda Sorrell-Medina (left) and Allison Dziuba

Fellowships help duo focus on finishing dissertations

American Association of University Women provides $20,000 each to UCI students Allison Dziuba and Zayda Sorrell-Medina

November 15, 2021
Photo of two UCI graduate students who received AAUW fellowships.

Two UCI graduate students earn prestigious AAUW fellowships

Support allows students to commit their full focus to the pursuit of their Ph.D.s

November 09, 2021
Actors working with South Coast Repertory perform a reading of an in-development play for an audience of UCI students at the campus’s Winifred Smith Hall.

Getting in on the act

UCI drama students participate in a play’s creation through South Coast Repertory’s NewSCRipts program

November 08, 2021