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Campus is also top choice for first-generation, low-income and minority students

UCI’s club sports archery team hit the bull’s-eye at a recent regional competition. The squad won first place in the 2020 Fivics SoCal Indoor Archery Collegiate Championship, in which nine schools competed, including UCLA and USC. The SIACC qualifiers were held in November at UC San Diego, Cal State Long Beach, UCLA and USC. UCI […]

Student Health Center medical director addresses coronavirus issues and misconceptions, and offers advice

Partnership provides critical link with Social Science Research Council to support research, collaboration and scholarship

UCI Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Enrique Lavernia has been elected a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Lavernia was recognized for his distinguished contributions to materials science and engineering and for his promotion of Chinese-American exchanges and cooperation in the field. He will be inducted in June 2020, during the academy’s annual […]

Machine learning Earth system model projects growth in lower latitudes by 2100

Community involvement, high-resolution maps lead to improved risk management

In a discovery that has implications for our understanding of the air we breathe, UCI chemists report that they’ve found nanoscale fragments of fungal cells in the atmosphere. The pieces are extremely small, measuring about 30 nanometers in diameter, and much more abundant than previously thought, the researchers say in a study published this week […]

UCI astronomer Paul Robertson recently celebrated “first light” for NEID, a new exoplanet hunting instrument he helped develop. Installed at the 3.5-meter WIYN telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona’s Sonoran Desert, NEID is an extremely precise radial velocity spectrometer. Its initial observations were of 51 Pegasi, a sunlike star that, in 1995, was […]

Perception of high status is linked to easier transition to adulthood, UCI-led study finds