Andre Mouchard

On one level, experts see the arrival of 372 beds at three new or expanding hospitals in Irvine as a welcome addition to Orange County’s effective but strained health care system.Simply put, more beds – even when clustered in a slice of the county that, h... See more

Like any self-respecting trial lawyer turned nonprofit leader, Jennifer Friend, chief executive of Project Hope Alliance , is better with words than she is with numbers.But that doesn’t stop her from using a few choice numbers to explain how Project Hope ... See more

Kathryn Kanjo wants to tell the story — ok, one story — of Orange County.That she wants to do that as part of her new job, as director of the UC Irvine Langson Orange County Museum of Art, means she’ll be telling the story mostly via pictures and objects.... See more

Trinity Audioplayer ready... Dr. Joshua Grill, executive director at UCI MIND – the organization at UC Irvine that’s technically known as the Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders and is widely regarded as one of the nation’s most im... See more

Helping others is good for you.That’s not cliche, that’s science.Two years ago, Harvard researchers published a study about the “Helper’s High,” showing how your brain churns up a burst of the feel-good chemical dopamine when you give something to somebod... See more