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UC Irvine has long been committed to gender equity in science, technology, engineering and math

Graduate school rankings released today by U.S. News & World Report show UC Irvine programs consistently among the top 50 in the nation.

Year brings scientific advances, national accolades, international outreach, student achievement … and zombies

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

Irvine, Calif., Oct. 8, 2013 — The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences today awarded the Nobel Prize in physics to theorists Peter Higgs and Francois Englert to recognize their work in developing the theory of what is now known as the Higgs field, which gives elementary particles mass. U.S. scientists, including those at UC Irvine, played […]

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

Recent astronomical discoveries confirm UCI researchers’ role as galactic groundbreakers

The honor, considered one of the highest in scientific research, goes to a professor renowned for his development of a two- story-high, scanning, tunneling microscope to investigate single molecules.

Assistant professors Matt Law, Jeffrey Streets and Jing Xia represent early-career researchers that show great promise.

The W.M. Keck Foundation has granted $1 million to UC Irvine to build a campus laboratory in which researchers can explore the potential of using the deep ocean’s low-temperature and high-pressure conditions to generate carbon-free power from methane hydrates.