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Joyce Keyak

Keyak inducted into biomedical engineering elite

Joyce Keyak, professor in residence of radiological sciences at UCI’s School of Medicine, had been inducted into the American Institute for Medical & Biological Engineering‘s College of Fellows for outstanding contributions in the area of imaging and skeletal biomechanics. The College of Fellows comprises the top 2 percent of medical and biological engineers in the […]

Charles Limoli

NASA awards UCI $9 million to study underlying mechanisms of ‘space brain’

Charles Limoli will lead effort to see how cosmic radiation affects astronauts’ cognition

Francisco Javier Mendieta Jimenez speaks with UCI students

Shooting for the stars

Mexican Space Agency hopes partnership with UCI will help develop program’s ‘human capital’

Earth system scientists to conduct sky-high and ocean-deep research, thanks to NASA award

UC Irvine and other scientists have won a coveted $30 million NASA Earth Venture award for their Atmospheric Tomography Mission, which will study how air pollution affects fast-acting greenhouse gases in the global atmosphere.

West Antarctic melt rate has tripled: UC Irvine-NASA

A comprehensive, 21-year analysis of the fastest-melting region of Antarctica has found that the melt rate of glaciers there has tripled during the last decade.

Universe much brighter than thought, UCI, others find

UC Irvine cosmologist Asantha Cooray is co-author of new findings to be published Nov. 7 in the prestigious journal Science.

Isabella Velicogna

Weighing the Earth’s fate

Isabella Velicogna‘s office in UC Irvine’s Croul Hall looks like it belongs to an artist instead of a university scientist. Her paintings and drawings — including charming sketches of mice — adorn the walls, and colorful, handcrafted mobiles dangle from the ceiling. “In my next life, I will be a children’s book illustrator,” says Velicogna, […]

Jay Famiglietti

A glass half empty

It may have been a rainy winter, but there’s still cause for concern about California’s water supply. Just ask Jay Famiglietti, UC Irvine Earth system science professor and founding director of the new UC Center for Hydrologic Modeling, which aims to help the state tackle its drought-induced water crisis. Famiglietti recently made headlines when he and NASA […]