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innovation

Kay Family Foundation gives $1.3 million to UCI Center for Healthspan Sciences

Funding will support health coaching, research and educational programs

UCI student center with students walking

UCI announces employee, student back-to-campus plans

Transition will focus on flexible work, learning environments

On-campus essential workers Matthew Tendroch (seated) and Justin Hsieh are from the UCI Office of Information Technology’s Wellness, Health & Counseling Services desktop support team, serving the Student Health Center.

When everyone must separate, technology keeps us together

UCI’s Office of Information Technology had a hand in every aspect of UCI’s move to a remote environment, and now is poising the university to come back

NIH grant will fund study of novel approach to repairing permanently damaged retinas

Magdalene Seiler, Ph.D., UCI associate professor of physical medicine & rehabilitation, has been awarded a five-year, $3,823,950 grant from the National Institutes of Health to conduct a preclinical study on rodent models of an innovative co-graft approach to repair permanently damaged retinas. Cell transplantation offers a potential therapy for those who have already lost their […]

Pharmaceutical sciences researcher gets NIH award for drug discovery tech development

The National Institutes of Health has granted $2 million to researchers in UCI’s School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences. The new Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award will fund drug discovery technology development in the laboratory of Brian Paegel, UCI professor of pharmaceutical sciences. “The NIH has generously supported my laboratory over the years in reaction miniaturization […]

Yosemite National Park

Man on fire

UCI’s Tirtha Banerjee probes the physics behind catastrophic blazes

Avatar of a man looking down steps in a virtual landscape.

Dalton Salvo sees simulated classrooms as the future

Doctoral student believes virtual worlds are ‘next evolutionary step’ of online learning

UCI-led team creates new ultralightweight, crush-resistant tensegrity metamaterials

Study shows how century-old design principle can be a pathway to overcoming failure

UCI’s John Chaput and his team have transcribed the Declaration of Independence and the UCI seal to a solution of TNA and recovered them.

John Chaput can store the Declaration of Independence in a single molecule

By using a synthetic genetic polymer, the UCI researcher overcomes prior limitations and lets you hold the world in the palm of your hand

School of Education is awarded $1.25 million to introduce novel math game in K-12 district

The UCI School of Education has received a three-year, $1.25 million research award from the NewSchools Venture Fund’s EF+Math Program to introduce Fraction Ball in the Santa Ana Unified School District. With the innovative mathematics game, arcs and colors are added to the design of a basketball court, helping children visualize equivalencies between fractions and […]