Faculty

UCI law professor and firearm activist Michele Goodwin

Taking aim at gun violence

Law professor launches national effort to study firearm mayhem, police shootings and survivor trauma

Richard Schoen wins 2017 Wolf Prize in mathematics

Richard Schoen has been awarded the 2017 Wolf Prize in mathematics for his contributions to geometric analysis and the understanding of the interconnectedness of partial differential equations and differential geometry. The UCI professor of mathematics, who holds the department’s Excellence in Teaching Chair, is among eight Wolf Prize laureates this year from the United States, […]

Andrew Highsmith

Revisiting the Flint, Michigan, lead-in-water crisis a year after its state of emergency

“We’ve only scratched the surface,” says UCI historian Andrew Highsmith

Six junior faculty awarded Hellman Fellowships

Six UCI assistant professors have been awarded Hellman Fellowships, created to help promising junior faculty realize their full scientific and academic potential. Forty Hellman Fellowships have been bestowed at UCI since 2013, when the campus program was established with a gift of $1.25 million from the Hellman Family Foundation. “These worthy recipients represent some of […]

Phu Nguyen, Soroosh Sorooshian and Kuo-lin Hsu

UCI introduces iRain smartphone app

Data used by agencies worldwide is now freely available

UCI-Penn study in Science reveals natural process for scar-free wound healing

Targeting body’s skin regeneration responses could also have anti-aging applications

Jack Brouwer

Greening the grid

UCI tests integration of renewable hydrogen into existing natural gas systems

Houri Berberian installed as Meghrouni Family Presidential Chair in Armenian Studies

The University of California, Irvine School of Humanities celebrated the installation of Houri Berberian as the Meghrouni Family Presidential Chair in Armenian Studies in the Department of History. She will work closely with the school’s faculty and lecturers in Middle East and Near East studies as well as Russian and Soviet studies to develop a […]

Chapter and Verse

UCI’s renowned M.F.A. program in creative writing continues to churn out heavyweight talent

Fountain of Youth

Anthropologist explores how avatars create a Second Life free from Parkinson’s and other impairments