UC President Janet Napolitano created a special climate action fellowship to be awarded to one faculty member at each UC campus for the 2015-2016 academic year. Dr. Steven Allison, professor in the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Earth System...
2015 Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society’s Student Research Conference Award Winners
Nov 30, 2015
The Scientific Research Society (Sigma Xi) is an international honor society of scientists and engineers that has maintained a distinguished history of service to science and society for over 100 years. There are Sigma Xi chapters throughout the world that can be...
Limited Funding Need Not Limit Success for Ecological Restoration Projects
Nov 30, 2015
A group of researchers in the Biological Sciences School lead by Drs. Sarah Kimball, the assistant director of UCI’s Center for Environmental Biology, and Travis E. Huxman, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Director of the Center for Environmental...
Regenerating a New Limb with the HEAL Project
Nov 30, 2015
The University of Connecticut will be launching a revolutionary scientific project aimed at helping individuals who have lost limbs or experienced severe nerve damage by regenerating new nerves cells or entire extremities. The project, known as the Hartford...
UCI Study Sheds New Light on Emperor Penguins
Nov 30, 2015
Dr. Cassondra Williams, a postdoctoral researcher in the laboratory of professor Jim Hicks in the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, has published data that sheds new light onto the complexity of the emperor penguins coat. Dr. Williams first became...
Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Graduate Students Wins NIH Training Award
Nov 30, 2015
Heather Wright is the recipient of an National Institutes of Health (NIH) Ruth L Kirschstein Predoctoral National Research Service Award (F31). The purpose of the F31 award is to enable promising graduate students to obtain individualized research training from...
Biological Sciences School Professor James Hicks elected to the American Physiological Society (APS) Fellows Status
Nov 30, 2015
Dr. James W. Hicks joined the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the School of Biological Sciences in 1992. In addition, Dr. Hicks has served on many departmental, school, and campus-wide committees, including as the Chair of the Institutional Animal...
University of California Scientists Create Malaria-blocking Mosquitoes
Nov 30, 2015
For nearly 20 years, Professor Anthony A. James has focused on engineering anti-disease mosquitoes. His anti-dengue fever models have been tested in cage trials in Mexico. In 2012, he helped show that antibodies that impair the parasite’s biology adapted from the...
Biological Sciences School Professor Steven Frank Awarded Distinguished Professor Title
Nov 30, 2015
Steven A. Frank, Ph.D. is a professor in the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Professor Frank’s research utilizes mathematical, computational, and conceptual models to study natural selection and the evolution of organismal design. Professor Frank was...
Staff Spotlight: Rahasson Ager
Nov 30, 2015
Rahasson Ager has been at UCI for over 12 years. Rahasson first arrived at the Biological Sciences School as a graduate student in the department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry. It was during that time he began to form relationships with the faculty and staff...