Physical Sciences

New UCI facility will fuel major multidisciplinary research and innovation

Commencement speaker Sylvia Mendez was the focus of a pivotal school desegregation lawsuit

Earth system scientist is honored for climate change studies

Substances could revolutionize electronic and computing devices

UCI, CoalSwarm: Hundreds of new dirty power plants aren’t needed

UCI’s Rowland Hall was officially designated a National Historic Chemical Landmark by the American Chemical Society in a campus ceremony Tuesday. The building is named after F. Sherwood “Sherry” Rowland, a founding faculty member whose groundbreaking research in the 1970s demonstrated the potentially catastrophic effect of chlorofluorocarbons on the Earth’s ozone layer, which protects against the sun’s […]

EVENT:  UCI will host a two-day symposium on air quality research and a ceremony in honor of Rowland Hall’s designation as a National Historic Chemical Landmark by the American Chemical Society. The building was the site of groundbreaking research on chlorofluorocarbons and stratospheric ozone loss by Nobel laureates F. Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina in 1974 […]

For the 30th anniversary of Women’s History Month, we take a look at some current UCI trailblazers

A South China Sea atoll lost nearly half its living coral in one summer due to spiking ocean temperatures and stagnant weather, according to new research by Kristen Davis, UCI assistant professor of Earth system science and civil & environmental engineering, and colleagues. The findings, published in Scientific Reports, describe how a 2-degree-Celsius rise in surface temperatures in the South China […]

Molecular gel could save millions globally from death or disfigurement