Engineering

To walk again

UCI brain-computer interface enables paraplegic man to take historic steps

Building a dream

UCI graduate student manages unique construction challenge: the Team Orange County entry in the 2015 Solar Decathlon

UCI biomedical engineer wins NIH Director’s New Innovator Award

Grant supports Chang Liu’s work to engineer a synthetic genetic system

UCI to co-lead $50 million water-energy research consortium

US-China collaboration also will include 4 other UC campuses, university lab

UCI brain-computer interface enables paralyzed man to walk

Proof-of-concept study shows possibilities for mind-controlled technology

Heat waves

UCI study finds dramatic increase in concurrent droughts, heat waves

Researchers use unique statistical analysis to identify dual climate threat

Amir AghaKouchak

Hydrological hat trick

UCI water and drought expert Amir AghaKouchak gets work published in three major journals within two weeks

Jay Vitella, 12, Claire Ke, 11, and Alex Tomov, 13

Teens tackle world dilemmas in UCI’s summer APPcamp

Middle school students develop mobile apps to address challenges posed by National Academy of Engineering

Women chemists

UCI ranks third for return on investment among public universities

Of the dozens of college surveys that rank thousands of universities across the nation, Money magazine’s recent poll has come the closest to cracking the code that answers the question: Which institutions of higher learning provide the best return on investment. And UCI scores well. It ranked third among public universities, fourth in the “value-added” […]

6 junior faculty members named 2015-16 UCI Hellman Fellows

Six University of California, Irvine assistant professors have been chosen from a highly competitive cohort to receive 2015-16 UCI Hellman Fellowships, which support research by junior faculty members who show great promise. Their projects focus on self-driving cars, economic instability at the U.S.-Mexico border and the production of carbon-neutral fuels, among other topics.