College of Health Sciences Spotlights

In search of super food

In search of super food

UC Irvine research Xiaolin Zi is studying compounds in natural foods that hold promise in the fight against urological cancer.

Oladele Ogunseitan

Oladele Ogunseitan

UC Irvine's Program in Public Health blossoms with a new department and a master's program.

Nursing the mind and memory

Nursing the mind and memory

Ruth Mulnard's passion for the workings of the human brain has spurred the nurse scientist's research efforts to help combat Alzheimer's disease and dementia.

Ellen Olshansky

Ellen Olshansky

In a few short years, UC Irvine’s Program in Nursing Science has launched the area’s first baccalaureate nursing program in decades, won speedy national certification and sent its first wave of graduates to help to ease the state’s acute shortage of nurses.

Michael Montoya, Ph.D.

Michael Montoya, Ph.D.

Anthropologist and public health scientist Michael Montoya

Frank L. Meyskens Jr., M.D., Ph.D.

Frank L. Meyskens Jr., M.D., Ph.D.

Award-winning oncologist and researcher Dr. Frank L. Meyskens Jr. has been a force behind the College of Health Sciences since it was but a gleam in the eyes of UC Irvine faculty and administrators in June 2003.

Inspiring excellence

Inspiring excellence

Nursing Science professor Ellen Lewis describes her passion for patient care