http://www.zotwire.uci.edu/ News briefs from the University of California, Irvine campus en-us Copyright 2005-2008 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. If you believe any of the material on this Web site violates your copyrights, please contact copyright@uci.edu. 30 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.zotwire.uci.edu/?story=2781 The "Clash of the Cans" food drive competition between UC Irvine and California State University, Long Beach will kick off Monday, Nov. 2. Sponsored by the parking and athletics departments... Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:31:23 -0700 clawhon@uci.edu http://www.zotwire.uci.edu/?story=2781 http://www.zotwire.uci.edu/?story=2780 UC Irvine emergency medicine professors Dr. Kristi Koenig and Dr. Tareg Bey have been awarded the Order of the International Federation for Emergency Medicine, which recognizes significant... Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:30:12 -0700 tmvasich@uci.edu http://www.zotwire.uci.edu/?story=2780 http://www.zotwire.uci.edu/?story=2779 A toxin produced by mold on nuts and grains can cause liver cancer if consumed in large quantities. UC Irvine researchers have discovered what triggers the toxin to form, which could lead to methods... Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:28:31 -0700 jfitzen@uci.edu http://www.zotwire.uci.edu/?story=2779 http://www.zotwire.uci.edu/?story=2778 The eyes may be the windows to the soul, but new research indicates they also may mirror a brain ravaged by Alzheimer's disease. UC Irvine neuroscientists have found that retinas in mice... Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:15:30 -0700 jfitzen@uci.edu http://www.zotwire.uci.edu/?story=2778 http://www.zotwire.uci.edu/?story=2772 With obesity emerging as a leading health threat to Americans, it's easy to blame a couch-potato culture addicted to calorie-rich foods. But UC Irvine biologist Bruce Blumberg doesn't... Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:24:45 -0700 tmvasich@uci.edu http://www.zotwire.uci.edu/?story=2772 http://www.zotwire.uci.edu/?story=2769 Jill Berg, nursing science associate professor, will be among those feted at a Nov. 3 banquet for the Chancellor's Awards in Clinical & Translational Science. Organized by UCI's... Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:32:47 -0700 tmvasich@uci.edu http://www.zotwire.uci.edu/?story=2769 http://www.zotwire.uci.edu/?story=2768 As America's reliance on cell phones, MP3 players and digital cameras grows, so too do concerns that toxic waste elements in these devices can cause significant environmental and health damage... Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:30:03 -0700 tmvasich@uci.edu http://www.zotwire.uci.edu/?story=2768 http://www.zotwire.uci.edu/?story=2765 Bad drivers may in part have their genes to blame, suggests a new study by UC Irvine neuroscientists. People with a particular gene variant performed more than 20 percent worse on a driving test than... Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:10:48 -0700 jfitzen@uci.edu http://www.zotwire.uci.edu/?story=2765 http://www.zotwire.uci.edu/?story=2757 UCI will mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall with a traveling photography exhibit and a four-day conference. "Icons of a Border Installation," running through Nov. 2 in... Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:36:41 -0700 lrico@uci.edu http://www.zotwire.uci.edu/?story=2757 http://www.zotwire.uci.edu/?story=2755 UC Irvine's Center in Law, Society & Culture is hosting "Covering the Law," a conference Nov. 9 and 10 exploring justice issues in the media. The event features a screening of... Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:28:10 -0700 lrico@uci.edu http://www.zotwire.uci.edu/?story=2755 http://www.zotwire.uci.edu/?story=2754 Locally owned small businesses don't insulate communities from layoffs and closures in bad economic times. Rather, corporate headquarters do the most to protect cities from employment reductions,... Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:27:23 -0700 lrico@uci.edu http://www.zotwire.uci.edu/?story=2754 http://www.zotwire.uci.edu/?story=2749 A new study has found that teens often lack the social and emotional maturity to control impulses. In contrast, intellectual abilities such as logical reasoning reach adult levels long before... Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:03:28 -0700 lrico@uci.edu http://www.zotwire.uci.edu/?story=2749 http://www.zotwire.uci.edu/?story=2747 The nearly 80,000 immigrants older than 65 who arrive in the U.S. each year are often overlooked by society because they don't hold paid jobs or speak fluent English, says UC Irvine sociology... Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:24:53 -0700 lrico@uci.edu http://www.zotwire.uci.edu/?story=2747 http://www.zotwire.uci.edu/?story=2740 Juergen Kempff, Spanish language curriculum director, passed away Oct. 17 after a long battle with cancer. Kempff obtained his doctorate in Hispanic linguistics from UC Santa Barbara in 1989 and... Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:33:06 -0700 lrico@uci.edu http://www.zotwire.uci.edu/?story=2740 http://www.zotwire.uci.edu/?story=2738 William Cooper, professor of civil and environmental engineering and director of the Urban Water Research Center at UC Irvine, has received the Outstanding Contributions to Education Award from the... Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:20:16 -0700 tmvasich@uci.edu http://www.zotwire.uci.edu/?story=2738 http://www.zotwire.uci.edu/?story=2736 In recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the UC Irvine women's volleyball team will dedicate its Oct. 24 home game against Cal Poly San Luis Obispo to the fight against the disease. As part of... Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:49:40 -0700 tmvasich@uci.edu http://www.zotwire.uci.edu/?story=2736 http://www.zotwire.uci.edu/?story=2735 UCI's Thesaurus Linguae Graecae is celebrating its 37th anniversary and honoring the memory of founding director Theodore F. Brunner with a two-day conference Oct. 29-30. TLG is the world's... Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:47:22 -0700 lrico@uci.edu http://www.zotwire.uci.edu/?story=2735 http://www.zotwire.uci.edu/?story=2734 Chemotherapy is one of the most effective ways to fight cancer, but the toxic medicine can cause collateral damage to healthy tissue. UC Irvine's Kenneth Longmuir, physiology & biophysics... Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:44:34 -0700 tmvasich@uci.edu http://www.zotwire.uci.edu/?story=2734