Staff Spotlight: Marcelo Soares, Marketing and Design Associate

  On June 1st, the Biological Sciences School welcomed Marcelo Soares, our new Marketing and Design Associate, to the Dean’s Office. While new to the School of Biological Sciences, Marcelo joins the Biological Sciences School from the UCI Institute for Memory...

Student Spotlight – Jennifer Au

Jennifer Au, a fourth year Biology major at the UCI Biological Sciences School was awarded the opportunity in fall 2015 to study at Beijing Normal University for four months to learn Madarin. She chose this intensive Chinese language program to help her better...

UCI neurobiologists restore youthful vigor to adult brains

Reactivated plasticity points to new treatments for developmental disorders Irvine, Calif., May 18, 2015 — They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. The same can be said of the adult brain. Its connections are hard to change, while in children, novel experiences...

Heading off concussions

Professor James Hicks, director of UCI’s Exercise Medicine & Sport Sciences Initiative, leads novel probe of impact injuries in water polo As a result of ongoing probes into the short- and long-term effects of concussions in football, other sports are looking into...

Inaugural Donuts with the Dean

The Biological Sciences School hosted the inaugural Donuts with the Dean event in April for undergraduate students. "This was a great opportunity for the School to recognize our students in an intimate environment and learn about their future plans," said Dean Frank...