Month: February 2020

State-of-the-art 9-acre campus will be national showcase for integrative health

A University of California, Irvine-led team has received $3.6 million over three years for a project that uses science and engineering to help California fight wildfires. The funding comes from the University of California Laboratory Fees Research Program competition, a contest designed to promote the development of multicampus projects and collaborations that advance the missions […]

In the latest UCI Podcast, Douglas Haynes, vice chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion, shares a message with the UCI community about inclusivity during challenging times. The World Health Organization has declared the coronavirus, now called COVID-19, a global health emergency. This pandemic has far-reaching effects on physical as well as mental health. Fear, stress […]

UCI undergrads partner with faculty in projects promoting sustainability

Donation will establish program’s first endowment for student scholarships

EVENT: The UCI Forum for the Academy and the Public will host a two-day conference on “The Future of the Future: The Ethics and Implications of AI.” Keynote speaker Bruce Sterling, an award-winning science fiction author, and an interdisciplinary and international panel of writers, academics and communicators will tackle an advance in technology that touches […]

Gift will aid recruitment, retention, graduation of underrepresented STEM students

Feb. 28 conference will explore what-if scenarios that could undermine public acceptance of November vote results

EVENT:  The “2019 Novel Coronavirus: Current State of Knowledge and Public Health Response” seminar will feature a panel of experts from UCI, as well as Dr. Matt Zahn, medical director for the Orange County Health Care Agency’s Division of Epidemiology & Assessment. WHEN/WHERE:  6-8 p.m. Monday, Feb. 10, in the Doheny Beach meeting rooms at […]

An international team of astronomers, including a researcher from UCI’s Department of Physics & Astronomy, has found an ultramassive galaxy as it existed more than 12 billion years ago. Galaxy XMM-2599 was extremely productive early on – hatching more than 300 billion suns by the time the universe had its 1 billionth birthday (it’s now […]