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Opinion: UCI plunges in world university rankings

11 Oct 2009 08:17:09 PDT

Written by Gary Robbins, science writer-editor
Times Higher Education in London annually produces a list of what it regards as the world's top 200 colleges and universities. “These universities have also stressed the importance of their professors publishing in international journals, which has no doubt increased the visibility...

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Opinion: Western State law school finally gets ABA accreditation

06 Aug 2009 18:13:54 PDT

Written by Ben Young Landis
Western State University is located next to Cal State Fullerton. (Image courtesy of Western State University) The Whittier Law School and the Chapman University School of Law are the only other ABA-accredited law schools in Orange County.

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Opinion: UCI chief angers alumni in midst of fundraising campaign

28 May 2009 07:00:48 PDT

Written by Gary Robbins, science writer-editor
UCI Chancellor Michael Drake (right) poses with Larry J. Shapiro, dean of the Washington University School of Medicine, on May 15. Image courtesy of Robert Boston. Drake chose instead to travel to St. Louis earlier this month to give a commencement talk at the Washington University School o...

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Opinion: Controversial figure wins UCI’s highest honor

27 May 2009 06:00:02 PDT

Written by Gary Robbins, science writer-editor
Former UCI Chancellor Laurel Wilkening. Image courtesy of UCI. UC Irvine Further, Wilkening was at UCI when Frederick Reines and F. Sherwood Rowland won separate Nobel Prizes in 1995. But she played no role in the seminal work that earned them the highest prize in science.

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Opinion: UCI has state’s second highest “biosci” enrollment

26 May 2009 07:00:18 PDT

Written by Gary Robbins, science writer-editor
UC Irvine had 4,489 students majoring in the biological sciences in the fall of 2008, the second highest number of any UC or Cal State University campus, according to figures compiled by the California Postsecondary Education Commission. Irvine was second only to UC San Diego, with 5,25...

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Opinion: Stem cell ruling could bring UCI millions in grants

16 May 2007 18:25:34 PDT

The California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) was already using loans to fund researchers. But the court ruling allows the agency to massively expand its funding of institutions like UC Irvine, which is becoming a Mecca for stem cell research. UCI has obtained $13.5 million in...

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Opinion: UCI profs to explain the science of Spider-Man 3 on History Channel

03 May 2007 14:00:00 PDT

THE DARK SIDE UC Irvine neurobiologist Jim Fallon and physicist Michael Dennin will appear on the History Channel at 8 p.m. tonight to discuss the science of Spider-Man, a show that comes on the eve of the nationwide release of Spider-Man 3, which cost at least $270 million to make.

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Opinion: Gizmodo Gallery: Garnet Hertz

07 Apr 2006 10:27:07 PDT

Written by coinop
Education: MFA, Arts Computation Engineering - University of California Irvine, Critical Theory Emphasis - University of California Irvine, In progress: PhD, Visual Studies (Media Theory / History) - University of California Irvine.

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