Day: June 20, 2011

UC Irvine News Brief: Wilson Ho wins award for two-story-high tunneling microscope

The Donald Bren Professor of physics & astronomy is honored by the American Vacuum Society.

Steven White

Quantum leaper

Acclaimed for a breakthrough algorithm, physicist Steven White is now first to model a new state of matter.

Building better lives

When four members of the UC Irvine student chapter of Engineers Without Borders headed to Endana, Kenya, last August to see how they could best help the rural community, it proved to be a real-life pass/fail test in leadership. “We didn’t know what we were getting into,” recalls Morgan Bailey, EWB chapter president and a doctoral candidate […]

UC Irvine News Brief: Sassone-Corsi made external member of Max Planck Society

The Donald Bren Professor and chair of pharmacology has been appointed to the Institute for Immunobiology & Epigenetics in Freiburg, Germany.