Science & Technology

O.C. firm with UCI roots makes strides toward fusion energy production

Ecologically rich mountain cloud forests impacted by drying climate

Machine sounds enable reverse engineering of source code

Mobile measurements pinpoint greenhouse gas hot spots

President Barack Obama has named UCI’s Alon Gorodetsky as one of 105 new recipients of the prestigious Presidential Early Career Award, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their careers. Recognition of the assistant professor of chemical engineering & materials science comes with a […]

Study correlates tiredness, bad mood, distractibility and social media browsing

UCI’s HyperXite team beat out nearly 100 others to finish fifth in the international Hyperloop Pod Design competition Jan. 29-30 at Texas A&M University. The Hyperloop is a concept first proposed by Elon Musk and SpaceX to design and build extreme high speed, energy-efficient transportation. University students and independent engineering teams competed in event, vying for the chance to […]

Simon Levin, a Visiting Distinguished Professor in ecology & evolutionary biology, will receive the National Medal of Science – the nation’s highest scientific honor – at a White House ceremony during the spring. Levin, the George M. Moffett Professor of Biology at Princeton University, studies complex patterns in nature and how they came to be. At […]

UCI seeks to balance electronic surveillance with privacy of people being monitored

Bored working in the software industry, UCI alumnus Sanjay Manaktala ’05 found his true calling on India’s fledgling stand-up circuit