The Weekly Anteater
Dear Friends of UCI,
Welcome to the Weekly Anteater report for what’s new and trending at UCI!
We’ve curated a collection of top news items and trending social topics. If you’re active on social media, please share this news with your friends and colleagues. We’ve attached social links and summaries for easy sharing!
On to this week’s big news…
How coronavirus can spread
Anteaters, let’s do our part to stop the spread of COVID-19. Wear a mask, maintain 6 feet of physical distance from others, and limit your interactions to those within your household.
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Cartographers of the brain
Thanks to Xiangmin Xu and his team at the Center for Neural Circuit Mapping, lazy eye, Alzheimer’s and other neurological diseases could become a thing of the past.
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Can children play sports safely during a pandemic?
Dr. Susan Huang, medical director for epidemiology and infection prevention at UCI Health, explains what parents should consider regarding sports for their kids.
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Celebrating Native American Heritage Month
As part of #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth, UCI’s School of Physical Sciences is highlighting the contributions of Native American faculty and students. Earth System Science Prof. Kathleen Johnson is a member of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians.
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Campus wildlife
Can you name this bird spotted in Aldrich Park?
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Countdown to Thanksgiving
Take the weekend to discuss with your Thanksgiving crew the best options to keep crowds small, maintain physical distance & safely serve meals.
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UCI in the News
Now the primary area of focus is how more of us can make it to such advanced ages with memory and thinking intact — of critical importance given that the study’s lead investigator, Dr. Claudia Kawas of the University California Irvine, tells Stahl, “Half of all children born today in the United States and Europe are going to reach their 103rd or 104th birthday.”
Young adults were also the most affected age group in an unusual, real-time study that tracked the rapid rise in “acute distress” and depression at three points between mid-March and mid-April. “We expected the opposite because it was already clear that older individuals were at greater risk” from the virus, says senior author Roxane Cohen Silver, a psychologist at the University of California, Irvine.
The overall international award went to 23-year-old postgraduate student Judit Giró Benet for her Blue Box, which offers a simple home-based alternative to routine mammogram screening. Benet, from Tarragona, Spain, and now studying at the University of California, Irvine, was inspired by her mother’s diagnosis of breast cancer and — with 40% of women failing to attend their mammograms — the need for a less invasive and more accessible alternative.
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