Physical Sciences

A gamble of global proportions

UCI’s Michael Prather is a lead author on the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report.

Jenny Yang and Charlene Tsay

Stamping out STEM stereotypes

UC Irvine has long been committed to gender equity in science, technology, engineering and math

Rachel Martin

Venus flytraps, venom and vision

Rachel Martin’s offbeat interests have led to a potentially eyesight-saving discovery

Highlights of 2013 at UCI

Year brings scientific advances, national accolades, international outreach, student achievement … and zombies

The spooky side of science

In the spirit of Halloween, we offer a witches’ brew of peculiar probes and freaky findings by UCI researchers

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN

Scientists celebrate their roles in physics Nobel

Eight UCI physics & astronomy professors are involved in Higgs boson data analysis

Dr. Tallie Z. Baram

Getting inside the child mind

With a major neurology award and $10 million in funding, Dr. Tallie Z. Baram strives to understand early-life brain development

Walking Dead MOOC professors

Academics take on zombies

Offered through Instructure, the free, eight-week MOOC will explore subjects related to math, public health, social science and physics

Sowing the seeds of sustainability

First-of-its-kind summer institute cultivates environmental activism – and leadership skills – among incoming students

On the cutting edge of the cosmos

Recent astronomical discoveries confirm UCI researchers’ role as galactic groundbreakers