The Enhanced Academic Success Experience (EASE) Initiative at the School of Biological Sciences is a unique learning community program aimed at improving the academic outcomes and overall college experience of first-year students. The program is structured around...
UCI Beall Applied Innovation recently held its fifth annual UCI Innovator Awards, recognizing top innovators among its faculty and researchers. With generous support from Don and Ken Beall, the awards were created by UCI Beall Applied Innovation to promote the...
Assistant Professor Eitan Schechtman-Drayman from the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, and Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory fellow, has been recognized by the Association for Psychological Science (APS) as an APS Rising Star. This designation...
Five faculty members from Dunlop School were recently selected to join the inaugural class of the UCI Faculty Academy for Teaching Excellence (FATE) fellows for the 2022-23 academic year. Associate Professor Celia Faiola and Teaching Professor and Vice Chair Catherine...
Professor Aimee Edinger from the Department of Developmental and Cell Biology and Professor Georg Striedter from the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Each new inductee to...
Combating Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases by inserting healthy new immune cells into the brain has taken a leap toward reality. Neuroscientists at the University of California, Irvine and the University of Pennsylvania have found a way to safely thwart the brain’s resistance to them, vaulting a key hurdle in the quest.
Assistant Professor Xiaoyu Shi from the Department of Developmental and Cell Biology has received a $400,000 grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s Advancing Imaging Through Collaborative Projects program. This grant will support Professor Shi's project, which...
Professor Adriana Briscoe’s article, “Familia, Comunidad y Maestros: How I Became a Latina Science Professor,” highlights key aspects of Mexican and Mexican American history that contribute to the challenges faced by Latinos in the U.S. educational system.
Phages, or bacteria-infecting viruses, are Earth’s most abundant biological entities, according to a team of three post-docs — Mirjam Zuend, Sage Dunham and Jason Rothman — in Katrine Whiteson’s lab from the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry and the UCI...
A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has uncovered new information about how the brain develops and potential abnormalities that can occur during that process. The team behind this discovery, which includes Developmental and...