California environmental justice advocates lead the way
Environmental justice advocates in California have fought for years against landfills, refineries and other polluting facilities in their neighborhoods. They insist that a progressive environmental ag...
13 Apr 202120min
How drought and climate change threaten California’s water
Rain is scarce in much of California, and most of California’s people live in water-starved regions. And yet the state is, by some measures, the fifth largest economy in the world. How? Because during...
25 Mars 202125min
We're tired of COVID, let's go to Thailand!
Tired of talking about COVID-19? We are, so as we approach the one-year anniversary of California’s shutdown, we are taking a break. On this special episode of the UCI Podcast, Infectious Disease Spe...
12 Mars 202134min
The lasting neurological damages for COVID-19 long haulers
Half a million people have died of COVID-19 in the U.S. and countless millions have contracted the virus. Doctors have been concerned, first, with preventing death. But another threat is becoming clea...
23 Feb 202122min
Why low-income children suffer the most during remote learning
Many students in California have barely seen the inside of a classroom in person since the COVID-19 pandemic began nearly a year ago. In that time, low-income students and families in low-income schoo...
16 Feb 202120min
UCI’s new in-prison bachelor’s degree to transform lives
For people who are incarcerated, college can change their life: The likelihood that they will wind up back in prison after they’re released drops dramatically when they earn their degree. This lower r...
3 Feb 202121min
Solving climate change with clean hydrogen fuel
Wind and solar energy, necessary as they are to reversing climate change, won’t be enough for society to completely wean itself from fossil fuels. Something else is needed for particularly energy-inte...
26 Jan 202123min
Running for city council as a 24-year-old UCI PhD student
It takes gumption to run for political office — especially when you’re just 24 years old. But that’s exactly what UCI PhD student Dylan Green did last year when he registered his candidacy for Irvine ...
12 Jan 202122min
