Science & Technology

UC Irvine’s 2024 Hellman Fellows are (clockwise from upper left): Abigail Lapin Dardashti, Javier Sanchez-Yamagishi, Fangyaun Ding, Pablo Lara-Gonzalez, Katherine Trieste Rhodes, Alejandra Rodriguez Verdugo, Irene Vega, Xian Shi, Ji Seon Song and Travis Wiles.

10 UC Irvine faculty members named Hellman Fellows for 2024-25

Program supports research by promising assistant professors

Mimi Ito

Generating the Future with AI

Three questions with cultural anthropologist Mimi Ito

Sam Hansen

#IamUCI – Sam Hansen

B.S., computer science | Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences

Christopher Arauzo

#IamUCI – Christopher Arauzo

B.S., mechanical engineering | The Henry Samueli School of Engineering

New crystal production method could enhance quantum computers and electronics

UC Irvine researchers make ultra-thin bismuth material for flexible technologies

Aerial views of San Juan Capistrano in 1990 and current day that shows increased coastal erosion.

California’s Beaches Are Eroding: Here’s How to Save Them

UC Irvine beach dynamics expert Brett Sanders offers solutions

UC Irvine-led team uncovers ‘vigorous melting’ at Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier

Satellite radar data show kilometer-scale seawater intrusion, causing ice to rise and fall

Two male scientists in a research laboratory.

UC Irvine-led research team discovers new property of light

Photon momentum discovery unlocks novel, silicon-based optoelectronic capabilities

Jack Brouwer lecturing in front of a diagram.

Clean energy for ‘everyone and for everything’

An Earth Day talk with Clean Energy Institute director Jack Brouwer

From left, Jenny Yang, Daniel Guillen, Tim Tait and Filipp Furche.

4 UC Irvine researchers are elected AAAS fellows

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