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Irvine, Calif., April 22, 2021 California s wildfire problem, fueled by a concurrence of climate change and a heightened risk of human-caused ignitions in once uninhabited areas, has been getting worse with each passing year of the 21st century.
Researchers in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Irvine have conducted a thorough analysis of California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection wildfire statistics from 2000 to 2019, comparing them with data from 1920 to 1999. They learned that the annual burn season has lengthened in the past two decades and that the yearly peak has shifted from August to July. The team s findings are the subject of a study published today in the open-access journal
UC Irvine to open campus partially in July; full return slated for September
Megan Garcia-Curran can’t hide her smile at the UC Irvine School of Medicine class of 2020 drive-through commencement ceremony on May 30, 2020.
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It’s been more than a year since UC Irvine closed last March and both students and professors swiftly transitioned to online courses, but they’ll be able to return to the university as early as July in a phased back-to-campus plan.
“Our next chapter will focus on the needs of our community, utilizing innovative solutions to create a UCI experience that is more satisfying, productive and supportive,” said Chancellor Howard Gillman in a statement released Tuesday announcing the return.
UC Irvine appoints former dean as new provost and executive vice chancellor
Hal Stern, the former dean of the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences and founding chair of the department of statistics, is now the provost and executive vice chancellor of UC Irvine.
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UC Irvine found a new provost and executive vice chancellor in Hal Stern, a former dean of the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences and the founding chair of the department of statistics that has served as the interim provost since March.
Stern will replace Enrique Lavernia, who stepped down from his position last year after being put on administrative leave pending an external investigation into his academic and research activities.
Effective place-based policy can be model for future incentives, evidence shows April 15, 2021
“We evaluated the effects of one of a new generation of economic development programs, the California Competes Tax Credit, on local job creation. Our findings show that CCTC awards increased employment among workers residing in both high- and low-income communities and that the local multipliers are larger for nonmanufacturing job creation than for manufacturing,” says study co-author David Neumark, UCI Distinguished Professor of economics.
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Irvine, Calif., April 15, 2021 Finally, an economic development tax incentive program that works – that’s the conclusion of an analysis by researchers at the University of California, Irvine. They found that each job incentivized under the California Competes Tax Credit led to more than two additional people working in that location. The positive results indicate that the program, intended to a