Dunlop School staff members Carolina Manel and Regina Castleman were featured during Women’s History Month for their contributions for Women in Technology at UCI.
Dunlop School Alumnus Spotlight: Roderick Seamster, MD, MPH, ‘82
1) Can you share a memorable experience from your time as an undergraduate at UCI? There were many memorable and rewarding experiences as an undergraduate at UCI. One includes my exposure to the Black Students in Science Organization (BSSO) and Dunlop School Peer...
Empowering Dunlop School Students: The EASE Initiative’s Transformative Impact
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...
Dunlop School Faculty Take Home Top Honors at the 2022 UCI Innovator Awards
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 Recognized as APS Rising Star
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 Dunlop School Faculty Selected as Inaugural FATE Fellows
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...
Aimee Edinger and Georg Striedter Selected as AAAS Fellows
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...
Study finds how our brains turn into smarter disease fighters
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.
Xiaoyu Shi Receives Award from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
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...
Familia, Comunidad y Maestros: How I Became a Latina Science Professor
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.