Science & Technology

Wendell Brase

Power player

Vice Chancellor Wendell Brase is widely credited with curbing campus’s energy consumption and costs

The spooky side of science

In the spirit of Halloween, we offer a witches’ brew of peculiar probes and freaky findings by UCI researchers

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN

Scientists celebrate their roles in physics Nobel

Eight UCI physics & astronomy professors are involved in Higgs boson data analysis

On track for clean energy

UCI will host – and compete in – the California Challenge, which pits alternative-fuel race cars against each other

Frank LaFerla

Committed to memory

UCI MIND will host the 24th annual Southern California Alzheimer’s Disease Research Conference on Sept. 20.

Walking Dead MOOC professors

Academics take on zombies

Offered through Instructure, the free, eight-week MOOC will explore subjects related to math, public health, social science and physics

Associate Professor Gillian Hayes

Tech support

Gillian Hayes develops apps and other tools to help those affected by autism

Sowing the seeds of sustainability

First-of-its-kind summer institute cultivates environmental activism – and leadership skills – among incoming students

Yingyi Bu and Bart Knijnenburg

Grad students get leg up from Google

Two in ICS’s doctoral program win fellowships recognizing world’s ‘most promising young academics’

On the cutting edge of the cosmos

Recent astronomical discoveries confirm UCI researchers’ role as galactic groundbreakers