Archive for January 14th, 2008
UCI Administration Cleared of Anti-Semitism Complaints
ADMINISTRATION: Allegations of ignoring anti-Semitism declared unfounded by Office of Civil Rights.
New Book Promotes Evolution
BIOLOGY: New book hopes to eradicate the perennial clash between science and religion.
UCI Researchers Find Stem-Cell Breakthrough
SCIENCE: UC Irvine researchers discover a new way to sort stem cells by using dielectrophoresis.
UC Irvine Professor Kei Akagi Revisits Musical Roots
With his latest musical release, UC Irvine professor Kei Akagi, will revisit an old friend by covering Miles Davis’ classic jazz tune, ‘Blue in Green.’
Although Akagi may be best known around campus for his jazz classes at the Claire Trevor School of the Arts, he was a well-known international jazz performer prior to coming to [...]
Potential Smallpox Victims Need a New Drug
According to Phillip Felgner and Huw Davies of the Department of Medicine at UC Irvine, a new artificially developed virus may be capable of replacing the current stockpile of smallpox vaccine.
Since an assortment of international scientists announced the eradication of smallpox in 1979 and the World Health Assembly formally endorsed this announcement in 1980, smallpox [...]
Hairy Soya Plants Combat Global Warming, States UC Irvine Researchers
UC Irvine researcher Christopher Doughty and a team of colleagues created models for soya plants. They discovered that harrier plants may be better when it comes to geo-engineering.
Geo-engineering is the process in which plants are grown to bounce sunlight back into space, in an effort to combat global warming. Although this is not a new [...]
Bottoms Up: Anthill Pub Now Open!
student center: Students cheer at the Pub and Grille’s long-awaited grand-opening celebration.
Take Your Daily Dose of ‘Truthiness’
‘I don’t like unions and I don’t need writers,’ announced the archconservative alter-ego of satirist Stephen ‘I am America’ Colbert. ‘Which brings me to tonight’s Word.’ But Colbert never came to his Word. That would have taken a writer.
Monday marked the enthusiastically-awaited and hotly-debated return of Jon Stewart’s ‘Daily Show’ and Colbert’s ‘Report’ to Comedy [...]
Caveat Disciplus: Course Catalogue Can Confuse
Three times a year, we UC Irvine students must go through the agonizing process of coming up with new schedules for the next quarter. First, you have to find out what requirements you need to fulfill, what classes meet those requirements, what classes you want and what classes you can arrange into a schedule, only [...]
Putin Puts Russia at World Powers Table
I was Time Magazine’s Person of the Year last year, but then again, so were you. And that awkward guy that always asks annoying questions in lecture, and the person in front of you in line at Starbucks and
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