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Double duty

Nov 6, 2024 | news.uci.edu | Roy Rivenburg |UC Irvine

The most intriguing title on Dr. Daniel Chow’s resume probably isn’t neuroradiology chief or co-director of UC Irvine’s Center for Artificial Intelligence in Diagnostic Medicine. It’s major in the U.S. Army Reserves. Earlier this year, the associate professor-in-residence at the School of Medicine spent several months in Kuwait as a radiologist treating American soldiers.
Exploring tragedy’s aftereffects

Jun 14, 2024 | news.uci.edu | Roy Rivenburg |UC Irvine

A fatal brain tumor, a Japanese sportscar and a Holocaust survivor dishing up coleslaw in an Illinois deli helped inspire Roxane Cohen Silver’s pioneering research. “It was a constellation of things falling together,” says the UC Irvine Distinguished Professor of psychological science, medicine and public health, who studies how people are affected by major tragedies such as 9/11, the Boston Marathon bombings and the COVID-19 pandemic.
A literal gut check

May 31, 2024 | news.uci.edu | Roy Rivenburg |UC Irvine

Be careful rummaging for Popsicles or other frozen treats in Katrine Whiteson’s home refrigerator. You might end up with an icy block of saliva, shark innards, urine – or worse. Such hazards come with the territory of microbiome research, which explores the networks of bacteria, fungi and viruses that live in, on and around us.
Bringing ancient Egypt to life

Apr 15, 2024 | news.uci.edu | Roy Rivenburg

SummaryLuiza Osorio G. Silva, who grew up entranced by mummy movies, is the Department of Art History’s first Egyptologist. Her classes cover everything from tomb artwork to royal power, and she’s involved with three archaeological excavations in the Middle East. She haunts ancient Egyptian graveyards, co-hosts a Portuguese podcast called “Three Egyptologists Walk Into a Bar” and keeps a miniature mummy in her office. Last fall, Luiza Osorio G.
‘Our Father, who art in Yosemite …’

Feb 27, 2024 | news.uci.edu | Roy Rivenburg

SummaryThe “Spiritual Geographies” exhibition at UCI’s Jack and Shanaz Langson Institute and Museum of California Art explores how Sierra Club co-founder John Muir, Protestant ministers, theosophists and various painters used landscape art to transmit theological ideas. Plenty of people see God in nature. But what about in paintings of nature?
Music as medicine

Feb 26, 2024 | news.uci.edu | Roy Rivenburg

Summary A collaboration among UCI Health, the Claire Trevor School of the Arts and the Philharmonic Society of Orange County brought the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s Strokestra program to UCI. The decade-old “music medicine” program helps stroke patients with their rehabilitation. Conga drums thump, tambourines rattle and a trombone moans as Tim Steiner – wearing a black shirt emblazoned with cats and strawberries – conducts an unusual symphony inside a UCI hospital library.
Surgeon leads overseas medical missions to poor villages

Feb 16, 2024 | news.uci.edu | Roy Rivenburg

Summary Joined by an ex-NASA contractor, a high school robotics team and assorted Anteaters, Dr. Cristobal Barrios Jr.’s nonprofit treated 3,750 people last summer. Patients and medical personnel both say the experience was moving. In the shadow of a snow-capped volcano, hundreds of impoverished villagers stood in line last July, hoping to receive much-needed medical care.
How UCI and AI go waaay back

Nov 27, 2023 | news.uci.edu | Roy Rivenburg

Decades before ChatGPT, Tesla autopilot and Siri, there was Julian Feldman and a monstrous mainframe. It was 1968, and UCI’s interdisciplinary program in information and communication science had just become a pioneering, standalone computer science department. At the helm was Feldman, who had co-edited a groundbreaking anthology of AI research a few years earlier.
Revisiting ‘Cabaret’

Nov 6, 2023 | news.uci.edu | Roy Rivenburg

Dressed in a sleeveless fishnet shirt, striped pants and a crop-top suit jacket, Robert Zelaya will slink onto the stage Nov. 11 to begin a one-week run of “Cabaret,” a carnivalesque musical adapted from a 1951 play based on a 1939 book and better known as a 1972 Academy Award-winning film. Channeling a seedy Berlin nightclub emcee, Zelaya will interact with audience members drinking mocktails at tables set up near the front of UCI’s Claire Trevor Theatre as the show gets underway.
Early 1900s influencer anchors new museum show

Sep 25, 2023 | news.uci.edu | Roy Rivenburg

After running a Nevada gold mine, cattle ranch and book bindery in the late 1800s, Idah Meacham Strobridge moved to a bohemian hamlet near Pasadena and helped put a burgeoning California art movement on the map.