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.

UCI wins three CASE Circle of Excellence Awards

UC Irvine’s innovative alumni program, advertising campaign and school-based annual report received international top honors in three categories at the 2015 Council for Advancement & Support of Education Circle of Excellence Awards.

6 undergrads win scholarships to study overseas

The Institute of International Education has granted scholarships to six UC Irvine students who will study abroad this summer and fall.

Silvia Gonzalez and Andrew Mehring

Drought advice from Down Under

California could learn a thing or two from Melbourne, Australia, which halved water use during a decade-plus dry spell with no new rate hikes

11 of UCI's 14 first graduating students

UC Irvine announces 2015 commencement schedule

This year’s commencement for UCI’s 50th graduating class will stretch over four days in the Bren Events Center, and 7,057 Anteaters will participate. Ten school-based events will be held, featuring addresses by renowned leaders in business, technology, athletics and law.

A dried-up pond at the San Joaquin Marsh Reserve near UC Irvine

Blueprint for a thirsty world from Down Under

The Millennium Drought in southeastern Australia forced Greater Melbourne, a city of 4.3 million people, to successfully implement innovations that hold critical lessons for water-stressed regions around the world, according to findings by UC Irvine and Australian researchers.

Peter Burke

Measuring ‘brainstorms'

UCI researchers pioneer technique permitting unprecedented peek inside neurons at activity of ion channels

Engineering professor awarded prestigious Early Career Research grant from Department of Energy

Timothy Rupert, assistant professor of mechanical & aerospace engineering, has been awarded an Early Career Research grant from the U.S. Department of Energy.

Shaking up the future

UCI grad students are investigating ways to make earthquakes less destructive