Science & Technology

Five UC Irvine scholars have been newly elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (clockwise from top left): Kevork Abazajian, professor of physics and astronomy; Thomas Zimmermann, Chancellor’s Professor of informatics; Melinda Gormley, research and policy coordinator at the Center for Population, Inequality and Policy; Aaron Barth, professor of physics and astronomy; and Nalini Venkatasubramanian, professor of computer science.

AAAS names 5 UC Irvine researchers as 2025 fellows

Scholars are honored for their efforts to advance science or its applications

Candice Odgers (L) and Gillian Hayes

UC Irvine leads national survey of artificial intelligence's role in education

Results suggest adolescents appear to be earlier and more eager adopters of AI

Donation from SAP establishes new UC Irvine endowed chair in artificial intelligence

Funding will support education, research and industry collaboration around AI

Rocket on a launch pad on the California coast.

UC Irvine astronomers view launch of new NASA space telescope

Two-year SPHEREx mission will map the universe and look for life-supporting molecules in the Milky Way

Man wearing glasses holding a metallic sphere.

UC Irvine and Pratt & Whitney establish materials science center of excellence

Unit will tackle challenges in the manufacturing of critical jet engine components

Women's History Month collage featuring: (top left to right: Katrine Whiteson, Sunny Jiang; (bottom left to right) Karen Lincoln, Aomawa Shields, Luiza Osorio Silva and Roxane Cohen Silver.

Profiles of excellence

For Women’s History Month, UC Irvine salutes its influential researchers

UC Irvine study shines headlights on consumer driverless vehicle safety deficiencies

Project demonstrates the low cost and ease of carrying out ‘sticker attacks’

Diego Pizzagalli, head of UC Irvine’s Noel Drury, M.D. Institute for Translational Depression Discoveries.

Demystifying depression

Founding director of collaborative research institute is eager to make a difference

UC Irvine students’ winter-quarter 2024 rocket blasts off from the Mojave Desert testing site.

The sky's the limit

Members of the UC Irvine Rocket Project each year produce new entries for international competition

Henry Samueli awarded IEEE Medal of Honor, the organization's highest honor

Inventor, business leader and philanthropist has had significant impact on UC Irvine