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Anteater Time Machine: Students study in the Gateway Commons (now the Gateway Study Center), circa 1975. (Photo courtesy of UC Irvine Libraries Archives) |
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School spirit and connection |
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The UC Irvine campus buzzed with school spirit as approximately 2,000 Anteaters of all ages came together for a festive Homecoming Block Party at the Bren celebration. Campus units and organizations from across campus and UCI Health sponsored booths dished out information and swag. Music filled the air throughout the afternoon, from upbeat live bands to the vibrant rhythms of the Mariachi Orgullo de UCI and the Ballet Folklorico de UCI. The Anteaters took the court and beat visiting UC Santa Barbara, sending the home crowd home with more reason to cheer. |
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MR-guided focused ultrasound |
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(The UCI Health Focused Ultrasound Program team celebrates the successful treatment of the program's first patient.) |
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The first patient has been treated in the new MR-guided focused ultrasound program at UCI Health. The procedure successfully relieved the patient’s symptoms of essential tremor in his right hand. Before treatment, he struggled to cook, eat, brush his teeth and hold items. Focused ultrasound is an incision-free treatment option for patients living with essential tremor and tremor-predominant Parkinson’s disease. The procedure uses MRI to precisely direct acoustic energy, or sound waves, at a tiny area in the brain and destroy the tissue causing the tremors. |
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Southern California’s beaches have grown more than 500 acres over the past four decades despite being one of the most heavily urbanized and dammed coastal regions in the world, according to a new study from UC Irvine researchers. The findings were made possible by newly developed satellite-derived shoreline data and signal-processing techniques to observe coastal changes over time. “These new tools are revolutionizing how we assess beaches and their changes,” said Brett Sanders, co-author and Chancellor’s Professor of civil and environmental engineering. NASA and the United States Geological Survey supported the work. #SpeakUp4Science |
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The retreat of ice sheets over the entirety of Antarctica |
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A comprehensive 30-year study led by UC Irvine researchers using satellite data has revealed that while most of Antarctica remains remarkably stable, vulnerable sectors are losing grounded ice equivalent to the size of greater Los Angeles every three years. “This work shows how commercial synthetic aperture radar data can be used to contribute to the virtual SAR constellation by augmenting the program of record from agency-run missions,” said Bernd Scheuchl, co-author and UC Irvine project scientist in Earth system science. “The ability to access daily observations in critical areas using commercial assets, combined with decades of international space agency data with large-area coverage, has opened a new era in polar monitoring.” NASA supported the work. #SpeakUp4Science |
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Tracking California’s criminal courts |
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Mona Lynch, Chancellor’s Professor of criminology, law & society, has been awarded a $178,851 grant from the Russell Sage Foundation to study how California’s landmark Racial Justice Act provides access to racial justice for criminal defendants. Her “Access to Racial Justice in Criminal Courts” research project will examine the implementation and impact of the act, which prohibits the state from prosecuting, convicting or sentencing criminal defendants based on race, ethnicity or national origin. “We thought this study was especially important to do, because this law, on the books, promises to address longstanding racial injustices in the criminal legal system,” said Lynch. “But what we know from a long line of sociolegal research is that laws are only as effective as their real-world implementation. If there are major barriers to the CRJA’s implementation, it is important to identify them so they can be addressed by policy-makers.” |
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#UCIconnected spotlights interesting updates from the UC Irvine community. #IamUCI spotlights profiles of students, faculty, staff and alumni. Send submissions via email or post on social media with the #UCIconnected or #IamUCI hashtags. |
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Chowhound, March 12 Cited: Andrea De Vizcaya Ruiz, professor of environmental and occupational health |
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The Hill, March 12 Cited: Alison Holman, professor of nursing |
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Medical Xpress, March 11 Cited: Simin Liu, Distinguished Professor of epidemiology and biostatistics |
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