UC’s National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement Selects Executive Director

A civil rights advocate and scholar with more than a decade of experience advancing free speech as an attorney and instructor has been named the first executive director of the University of California’s National Center for Free Speech and Civic...
23-Apr-2018 12:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Blood Biomarkers May Allow Easier Detection, Confirmation of Concussions

Researchers from the University of California, Irvine, Georgetown University and the University of Rochester have found that specific small molecules in blood plasma may be useful in determining whether someone has sustained a mild traumatic brain...
20-Apr-2018 2:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Could Holey Silicon Be the Holy Grail of Electronics?

Electronics miniaturization has put high-powered computing capability into the hands of ordinary people, but the ongoing downsizing of integrated circuits is challenging engineers to come up with new ways to thwart component overheating.
12-Apr-2018 12:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

International Conference on Learning and Memory to Feature World’s Leading Brain Scientists

On April 18-22, 2018, the UCI Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory will host 800 of the world’s foremost brain scientists for the 2018 International Conference on Learning and Memory. Scientists at the conference will present...
11-Apr-2018 4:55 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Modern Dance Giant Donald McKayle Has Died

Modern dance pioneer Donald McKayle, one of the first African American men to break through racial barriers via dance, has died. The iconic performer, choreographer, teacher, director and writer had a wide-ranging impact on the United States’...
9-Apr-2018 7:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Investor-Philanthropist Steve Borowski ’79 to Receive UCI’s Extraordinarius Award

The University of California, Irvine Alumni Association will bestow its highest honor, the Lauds & Laurels Extraordinarius award, upon Steve Borowski ’79 for his philanthropic and volunteer work for the university. In its 48th year, Lauds &...
9-Apr-2018 4:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Now You See It: Invisibility Material Created by UCI Engineers

Materials inspired by disappearing Hollywood dinosaurs and real-life shy squid have been invented by UCI engineers, according to new findings in Science this Friday.
29-Mar-2018 2:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

UCI to Play Key Role in Innovative Nuclear Nonproliferation Initiative

Harnessing the unusual characteristics of elusive subatomic particles known as antineutrinos, the University of California, Irvine will play a key role in a nuclear nonproliferation research collaboration between U.S. and U.K. laboratories and...
28-Mar-2018 2:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites