KEYWORD

interdisciplinary

UCI receives $1.5 million from philanthropist Roy Eddleman

Gift will fund research institute devoted to quantum science

Ilhem Messaoudi, professor of molecular biology & biochemistry, (pictured in her lab) is part of a UCI research team using a CRAFT-COVID grant to study the prevalence of undetected COVID-19 among healthcare providers at the UCI Medical Center.

Fast-tracked funding

To expedite campus response to pandemic, UCI leadership amasses $2.5 million for COVID-19 research projects

Microorganisms in parched regions extract needed water from colonized rocks

Interdisciplinary UCI-led team is first to demonstrate long-suspected survival strategy

First-year medical student Catriona Lewis assembles face shields developed by UCI engineering, arts, medicine and nursing faculty at Beall Applied Innovation’s University Lab Partners facility.

UCI supports those on front lines with face shields

Interdisciplinary team designs, tests, produces and delivers 5,000 units to medical center within 17 days

Campus labs making sample-preserving fluid for COVID-19 test kits

‘Mini task force’ of UCI researchers responds to urgent need at medical center

Core values

Freshman humanities course is ‘immersive deep dive into what it is that makes us human’

Shane Coffield, UCI grad student in Earth System Science

Taming wildfires

UCI-created AI tool for predicting blaze size proves successful in Alaska; team now focuses on California

Louise Nicole Ives

Committed to community

Scholarship support helped recent UCI graduate prepare for life of service

UCI chemist to lead Sloan Foundation-funded project to remove CO2 from emissions and air

Jenny Yang, UCI associate professor of chemistry, will use a $1.5 million grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to help develop methods for the capture and removal of carbon dioxide from flue gases emitted by fossil fuel plants and from air. The funding will support an interdisciplinary team – led by Yang – from […]

The Alzheimer’s crunch

With jump in patients expected, new leader of clinical research operations at UCI MIND aims to accelerate translation of discoveries into effective treatments