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Medical physics residency program accredited

The medical physics residency program in UC Irvine’s Department of Radiation Oncology was recently accredited by the Commission on Accreditation…

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UCI welcomes international Fulbright Scholars

The five scholars are from Ukraine, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, and India

Researchers find exoplanet that appears to be too big for its sun

UCI astronomer says the discovery scrambles solar system models

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UCI’s Center for Educational Partnerships announces collaboration with OC World

The UCI Center for Educational Partnerships’ leader, Stephanie Reyes-Tuccio, and Manuel Gomez, co-founder of OC World, have agreed to initiate a special program that will provide professional-level internships to UCI students interested in pursuing careers in media and communications. OC World is a nonprofit multimedia company that produces Orange County public affairs news and feature […]

UCI’s highly cited researchers, as determined by Clarivate, are (from left, top row) Amir AghaKouchak, James S. Bullock, Steven J. Davis and Candice Odgers; (middle row) Greg J. Duncan, Susan M. O’Brien, James T. Randerson, Sai-Hong Ignatius Ou and Nosratola D. Vaziri; (bottom row) Xiaoqing Pan, Vojislav Stamenkovic, Julian F. Thayer and Huolin Xin.

13 UCI faculty members make prestigious list of highly cited researchers

Clarivate designation includes those who have ‘demonstrated significant and broad influence in their field’

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UCI is No. 9 on 2024 Princeton Review ranking of green schools

UCI also receives Honor Roll distinction

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UCI-led study links cholera epidemic in Yemen to conflict-related air raid severity

A study led by UCI has discovered a significant link between conflict, as measured by air raid severity, and the incidence of cholera in Yemen between 2016 and 2019. During that time, Yemen was facing recorded history’s largest cholera outbreak. The findings, published online today in The Lancet Global Health, show that after adjusting for […]

Group of five researchers funded by NSF to examine wildfire management while incorporating voices from Indigenous communities.

NSF funds UCI-led team connecting Indigenous communities with key decision-makers in wildfire management

Project will bring diverse voices to forefront of mitigation and research

Mathematician awarded Barry Prize for Distinguished Intellectual Achievement

Svetlana Jitomirskaya, UCI adjunct professor of mathematics, has received a 2023 Barry Prize from the American Academy of Sciences and Letters in recognition of intellectual excellence and courage. The prize was awarded recently by academy President Donald W. Landry of Columbia University and Chairman of the Board Sanjeev R. Kulkarni of Princeton University in a […]

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Paul Merage School of Business launches digital twin ‘metaversity’

Students will learn in an interactive virtual reality environment