Research

Study findings will help improve predictions about global sea level rise

­The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has granted UCI materials engineer Alon Gorodetsky a Young Faculty Award in support of his work to create smart fabrics for soldiers. The assistant professor of chemical engineering & materials science is one of 27 researchers nationwide to receive the prestigious award. Gorodetsky studies the adaptive properties of squid skin. He […]

A UCI team led by Padhraic Smyth, professor of computer science and director of the UCI Data Science Initiative, is one of 16 interdisciplinary groups to share $47 million awarded as part of the National Science Foundation Research Traineeship program. UCI will receive $2.9 million, primarily in the form of graduate student fellowships, to develop “team science […]

Traditional keyboard sounds can be decoded, UCI and Italian researchers find

Large-scale study co-authored by UCI sociologist is first of its kind

The latest quarterly report issued through the School of Social Ecology’s Metropolitan Futures Initiative explores the concept of demographic “mixing,” its prevalence in Southern California neighborhoods and its relationship to “economic dynamism.” Researchers identified seven factors that directly affect a community’s vitality and well-being, each with a four- or five-category range: population age, household income, […]

Consortium will help recruit million-person cohort at center of federal program

UCI researchers also find that shared reading of books, print or digital, boosts literacy

UCI MIND takes multipronged approach to finding preventions, cures in effort to avert baby-boom crisis

Life-changing undergraduate opportunity lets students explore, invent and experiment with everything from robotic coats to a video game of the human digestive tract