2009 year in review
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Image 1: A therapy developed at UCI that made paralyzed rats walk again became the world's first embryonic stem cell treatment tested in humans. The FDA in January approved the therapy - based on work led by neuroscientist Hans Keirstead - for a clinical trial in patients with thoracic spinal cord injuries.
Image 2: In February, Dr. Emily Dow, center, and UCI health sciences students launched the free UC Irvine Outreach Clinic in Tustin to provide vital primary and preventive care services and referrals for people without adequate access to healthcare otherwise.
Image 3: A study authored by Ilona Yim, UCI psychology & social behavior assistant professor, found that women with higher levels of a certain hormone produced by the placenta midway through pregnancy were more likely to develop postpartum depression.
Image 4: One of the first four graduates of UCI's innovative Program in Medical Education for the Latino Community, Sarah Lopez exults on Match Day after learning she'll join USC's emergency medicine residency program.
Image 5: For the first time in its history, UCI baseball in April was voted No. 1 in the country in the Baseball America and Collegiate Baseball Division I polls.
Image 6: UCI cosmologists found two supernovae farther away than any previously detected by using a new technique that could help find other dying stars at the edge of the universe. Shown is Eta Carinae, a star in the Milky Way galaxy that will become a supernova similar to those discovered by Jeff Cooke and colleagues.
Image 7: Defensive specialist Will Thomas (top right) joins the celebration moments after the UCI men's volleyball team captured the 2009 NCAA championship. It was the Anteaters' second NCAA title in three years.
Image 8: UCI's Frank LaFerla (left), Mathew Blurton-Jones and colleagues showed for the first time that neural stem cells can rescue memory in mice with advanced Alzheimer's, raising hopes of a potential treatment for the devastating disease.
Image 9: Biologist Francisco Ayala and other UCI researchers identified the original source of malaria as a parasite found in chimpanzees in equatorial Africa.
Image 10: The Chemistry at the Space-Time Limit center at UCI, directed by professor V. Ara Apkarian, was awarded $20 million over five years from the National Science Foundation to record time-lapse images of single molecules.
Image 11: New coach Paula Weishoff, a Volleyball Hall of Famer, led the UCI women's team to its first top-25 national ranking since 1988.
Image 12: The new Humanities Gateway building, which features a 110-seat auditorium, film screening room and courtyard for events, was dedicated in October.
Image 13: UCI neuroscientist Dr. Steven Cramer published a study suggesting that bad driving may, in part, be due to a gene variant present in about 30 percent of Americans.
Image 14: In July, Jesse Cheng, a third-year Asian American studies major at UCI, will begin his one-year term as UC student regent. He is the second UCI student to hold the systemwide position.
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2009 a year of discovery, growth at UCI
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