Science & Technology

Creating video games at UCI in the 1970s

I had already received a bachelor’s degree and secondary credential in math from UCLA and had been teaching for a few years when I got hooked on programming personal computers to create simulations for the classroom. Personal computing was an exciting new concept in the 1970s, and I decided to go to UC Irvine to […]

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.

ICS dean will help lead national effort to improve criminal evidence analysis, cut wrongful convictions

Hal Stern, dean of the Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences and professor of statistics, will help lead a new national Forensic Science Center of Excellence.

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.

The day Irwin Rose won the Nobel Prize

On the morning the 2004 Nobel Prize in chemistry was to be announced, I rushed to check the website to see who had won. Still bleary-eyed from having just awoken, I read “Aaron Ciechanover, Avram Hershko and Irwin Rose ‘for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation.’” Irwin? Then it dawned on me: That’s Ernie! Ernie […]

Shaking up the future

UCI grad students are investigating ways to make earthquakes less destructive

Weian Zhao

UCI receives up to $5 million to advance bloodstream infection detection technology

A UC Irvine research team will receive up to $5 million over five years in federal support to further develop a bloodstream infection detection system that speeds up diagnosis times with unprecedented accuracy – allowing physicians to treat patients with potentially deadly ailments more promptly and effectively.

Alums Malone, Kashani nominated for Tony Awards

Alums Beth Malone and Tim Kashani have been nominated for Tony Awards.