News Briefs

Jul 22, 2022
Christ received her Ph.D. in Chemistry from UCI in 1994. But that was just the start.
Jul 21, 2022
Researchers used LANDSAT satellite data to document how tree-cover changed in California from 1985 to 2021, being shrunk by wildfires, logging, and droughts.
Jul 21, 2022
The finding could help the South American city design greener infrastructure in the future.
Jul 20, 2022
An increase in catastrophic wildfires has reduced California tree cover by 6.7% since 1985, and researchers fear the lost trees will never grow back.
Jul 18, 2022
California's forests are in rapid retreat, which bodes ill for the future.
Jul 14, 2022
Wildfires and climbing temperatures have caused a 6.7 percent decline since 1985.
Jul 13, 2022
Academia Sinica is a top academic institution based in Taiwan.
Jul 8, 2022
Program supports research by assistant professors.
Jul 6, 2022
Cal-Bridge Program brings together the three levels of the California higher education system to diversify the California public university faculty and tech workforce.
Jun 27, 2022
Dark matter, an invisible mass that makes up approximately 96% of the Universe, is a non luminous material that does not emit, absorb, or interact with light in any way. Dark matter exists in space and can take many different forms such as “cold dark matter” which are weakly interacting particles or “hot dark matter,” high energy, randomly moving particles that were created shortly after the Big Bang event nearly 13.8 billion years agoDark matter is distinguished by its…
Jun 23, 2022
The sheer acreage consumed by fire in California in recent years is numbing: more than 2.5 million acres last year, and 4.3 million acres the year before that.
Jun 13, 2022
Sutherland never thought getting a Ph.D. in math also meant he’d also become something else: a translator of foreign languages.