Research

Award will fund research on privacy decisions by users of connected household devices

Alfred Kobsa, UCI professor of informatics, is part of an international team that recently received $882,000 from the National Science Foundation and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. The award will fund research to improve users’ privacy decisions within the “Internet of Things,” which is the network connectivity among household items that enable them to collect […]

Presidential Early Career Award goes to Jenny Yang

Jenny Yang, UCI assistant professor of chemistry, has received a 2017 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists & Engineers, the U.S. government’s highest honor for science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers. The president bestows the grants each year to encourage federally funded researchers to help advance the nation’s technological […]

Chemist gets Presidential Early Career Award

Aaron Esser-Kahn, UCI assistant professor of chemistry, has won a 2017 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists & Engineers, the U.S. government’s highest honor for science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers. The grants are bestowed each year by the president as encouragement to federally funded researchers to help advance the […]

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

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

Fountain of Youth

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

A matter of life or death

What drives decisions by autonomous vehicles in dire situations?

With NSF funding, UCI economist conducts lab experiments on outcomes of monetary policies

John Duffy, professor of economics and co-director of the Experimental Social Sciences Laboratory, has received a $79,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study the impact of different monetary policies on economic activity and inflation. The study relies on a model of economic interactions that he’ll run over the computer network in the ESSL, using UCI […]