Feb. 24, 2025

Croul Hall receives a vivid reflection courtesy of recent rains. (Photo: Steve Zylius/UC Irvine)

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Virtual Town Hall tomorrow regarding federal funding impacts

There will be a Zoom webinar tomorrow from 3-4 p.m. to discuss the evolving landscape of federal research funding. Get updates, ask questions and share your insights as we navigate these changes together. No registration is required – submit your questions in advance at events@research.uci.edu. In addition to the UC Federal Updates site, the campus has launched a Federal Updates for the UC Irvine Community website at uci.edu/federal-updates with regularly updated guidance and contact information for direct support resources.

“90s Black Popular Culture” is a new class that explores how the era’s artists and creators responded to major policy shifts through film, music and television. Jointly offered by the Departments of Film & Media Studies and African American Studies, the course reveals how these creative works continue to resonate three decades later. “This is an American history course,” said Philana Payton, an assistant professor of film & media studies. “We’re using primary sources and peer-reviewed research to examine a critical period in our nation’s history.”

How heart attacks differ in women

For many years, what we knew about heart disease came from research that mainly studied men. As women have increasingly been included in heart disease research, it has been discovered that women and men experience heart attacks very differently. “Half of women who have heart attacks have symptoms different from the chest pain or pressure that men typically experience,” said UCI Health cardiologist Dr. Jin Kyung Kim, who specializes in women’s heart health. Those include heart palpitations and anxiety, or sometimes no symptoms at all.

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President Drake addresses anxiety over federal funding threats

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UCI Health was honored for Excellence in Health Systems, and nationally recognized infectious disease physician-scientist Dr. Susan Huang (above left) earned the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Greater Irvine Chamber Excellence in Healthcare & Innovation Awards this month. The honor for UCI Health, which was accepted by Chief Medical Officer Dr. Joseph Carmichael, caps a year of transformation and growth that has expanded access to care throughout the region. Huang is one of the nation’s leading clinicians and researchers in the field of infection prevention and combating multidrug-resistant organisms. She is responsible for developing infection prevention protocols that have been implemented locally and nationally to protect the lives of patients.

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