Making a Foreign Country Feel Like Home Lester Ng ‘93 contributes to the Dunlop School International Students Program (ISP) to help foreign students thrive in the U.S. Lester Ng (‘93) clearly remembers the challenges of studying abroad. While in law school, he found...
Welcome new Bio Sci faculty members!
Oct 22, 2013
The School of Biological Sciences is excited to welcome four new assistant professors and one lecturer with potential security of employment to our Fall 2013 faculty roster. With research interests ranging from ecology of plant traits and evolution of genomes to tumor...
A message from the Provost about Interim Dean
Oct 21, 2013
A message from Howard Gillman, Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor, UC Irvine I am delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Brandon Gaut as Interim Dean of the School of Biological Sciences, effective November 1, 2013. Professor Gaut joined UCI in 1998 as...
Dean Bennett Retirement Announcement
Oct 15, 2013
To the School of Biological Sciences Community: This newsletter marks my last as the School of Biological Sciences Dean, as I will step down as faculty member and dean on October 31 after nearly 40 years at UCI. It has been gratifying over the past seven years of my...
Susanne Rafelski named 2013 Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholar in Aging
Oct 14, 2013
Dr. Susanne Rafelski was named a 2013 New Scholar in Aging by the Ellison Medical Foundation. Suanne is an Assistant Professor of Developmental & Cell Biology in the School of Biological Sciences. Her Ellison award will support research that pushes live-cell,...
Meet our 2013 Leadership Scholar – Esther Kim
Oct 1, 2013
Welcome back Anteaters and Bio Sci majors! With another exciting year ahead, we want to kick this year off with a feature on one of our own, who is heading into her senior year as the 2013 Leadership Scholar. Esther Kim is an Irvine native with aspirations of becoming...
Two Bio Sci scientists receive Prestigious NIH New Innovator Awards
Sep 30, 2013
Prestigious program supports research by early-career faculty; three total from UCI honored Irvine, Calif., Sept. 30, 2013 — UC Irvine scientists Sunil Gandhi and Ali Mortazavi from the School of Biological Sciences have been named recipients of the prestigious 2013...
UCI-led study creates new memories by directly changing the brain
Sep 9, 2013
Findings could prove helpful in understanding and resolving learning and memory disorders Irvine, Calif., Sept. 10, 2013 — By studying how memories are made, UC Irvine neurobiologists created new, specific memories by direct manipulation of the brain, which could...
UCI-led study reveals how SARS virus hijacks host cells
Aug 21, 2013
Findings could prove beneficial in the development of therapies Irvine, Calif., Aug. 22, 2013 — UC Irvine infectious disease researchers have uncovered components of the SARS coronavirus – which triggered a major outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome in...
Bio faculty studies featured in American Journal of Botany’s July 2013 issue
Aug 20, 2013
Several studies from UC Irvine School of Biological Sciences faculty featured in American Journal of Botany The July 2013 issue of the American Journal of Botany features several studies from UC Irvine School of Biological Sciences faculty on global biological change....