UCI Podcast: How UCI built a research powerhouse with a record funding year
Researchers pull in campus-best $529 million in grants and contracts
July 19, 2020
Research
Inventive medicine
Optics innovator Thomas Milner is back at UCI as director of the Beckman Laser Institute & Medical Clinic
July 17, 2020
NSF grants $18 million to UCI for materials science and engineering center
Researchers will develop new substances for manufacturing, defense and health
July 14, 2020
UCI researchers use campus as test bed for coronavirus contact tracing system
Wi-Fi-based application expected to be transferable to other universities and beyond
July 08, 2020
UCI Podcast: Professor Davin Phoenix on the political impact of the Black Lives Matter movement
The protests over George Floyd’s death and the wider activism seeking to end police brutality and fight anti-Black racism are swiftly reshaping political discourse. With the elections in November, the question is whether the energy and anger of this moment will lead to lasting political change. Davin Phoenix, an associate professor of political science at […]
July 07, 2020
High-Speed Research, High-Impact Application
While all but essential research shut down, studies connected to COVID-19 ramped up as UCI’s scientific community mobilized in a quest to serve the public good. Researchers harnessed their intellectual resources to investigate how the coronavirus behaves and mutates. They created diagnostic tools to help doctors predict which patients aremore likely to be admitted to […]
July 06, 2020
UCI researchers: carbon in Earth's soil older than previously thought
Analyzing radiocarbon dating on a massive database of soil samples from around the world, University of California, Irvine researchers have determined that globally, the average age of the carbon in the ground is about 5,000 years old. In a study published today in Nature Geoscience, a team led by Zheng Shi, UCI postdoctoral scholar in […]
June 29, 2020
Five UCI junior faculty named Hellman Fellows for 2020-21
Assistant professors in chemistry, computer science, dance and psychological science awarded grants to support research, scholarly work
June 25, 2020
UCI astronomers analyze second-most distant quasar
Using three observatories on Maunakea in Hawaiʻi, astronomers at the University of Arizona have discovered the second-most distant quasar ever found. As part of an international effort to confirm and study the newly discovered object, a team at UCI and UC Santa Barbara used the Keck II 10-meter telescope to perform a spectroscopic analysis. The […]
June 25, 2020
Huolin Xin receives early career award from DOE Office of Science
The U.S. Department of Energy has chosen Houlin Xin, UCI assistant professor of physics & astronomy, as an awardee in its DOE Office of Science Early Career Research Program. Xin will receive $150,000 per year for five years to support his project to develop transmission electron microscopy imaging technologies for making lithium-ion battery electrodes more […]
June 24, 2020