The UCI Alumni Association will honor Dr. Marlene Godoy ’76 along with Professor Anthony A. James ’73, Ph.D. ’79, the Donald Bren Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry and Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, at the 2017 Lauds & Laurels Award Ceremony...
The UC Irvine Center for Addiction Neuroscience (ICAN) was founded to tackle high impact questions in drug abuse and addiction. The center is comprised of UCI faculty from 4 different schools and 11 different departments with expertise in basic and clinical research...
Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education has been critical to our nation’s role as a global leader of innovation. The ARCS Foundation seeks to further advance science and technology by providing assistance to exceptional students studying to...
Professor Dana W. Aswad (Molecular Biology and Biochemistry) and colleagues, have successfully expressed/purified several variant forms of the Protein L-isoaspartyl methyltransferase (PIMT) enzyme to study their biochemical properties. The PIMT enzyme functions to...
UCI alumnus Owen Shimizu is a Staff Research Associate for the School of Biological Sciences. Owen began working with the School as a Lab Assistant in 1995, after graduating with a B.S. in 1994. While working as a Lab Assistant, Owen continued his studies at UCI and...
Professor Larry Cahill (Neurobiology and Behavior) is a distinguished neuroscientist whose research centers on understanding sex influences on nervous system function. Professor Cahill was selected to serve as guest editor on a first-of-its-kind themed publication...
Assistant Teaching Professor Andrea C. Nicholas (Neurobiology and Behavior) is the author of a new series of online learning tutorials published by Garland. Professor Nicholas’ tutorials will accompany a new textbook titled “Principles of Neurobiology,” by Stanford...
Five students from the Biological Sciences School were named Rose Hills Foundation Undergraduate Science & Engineering Scholars for the 2016-2017 school year. We would like to congratulate Mercado Mayalen, Cassidy Nguyen, Anais Panossian, Ava Pournejad, and Devan...
Graduate students Emily Abbott and Kerianne Wilson (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology), Dail Chapman and Heather Karner (Developmental and Cell Biology), and Matthew Mahavongtrakul and Julia Overman (Neurobiology and Behavior), have been selected as Pedagogical Fellows...
At this year’s freshman welcome, Dean Frank M. LaFerla invited incoming students to join their peers at the fall quarter “Donuts with the Dean” event in the foyer of the Office of the Dean in Natural Sciences II. Many of the incoming students accepted his offer and...