UC Irvine News Brief: Biophysicist named Royal Institute of Navigation fellow

Thorsten Ritz, UCI associate professor of physics & astronomy, receives the award from the Duke of Edinburgh for his work on animals’ “magnetic compass.”

UC Irvine News Brief: Physicist, grad student make a splash with work on quantum spin liquids

The June 3 “Science” magazine cover is an illustration of the groundbreaking identification of the material’s true ground state by UCI physics & astronomy professor Steven White and grad student Simeng Yan.

Zuzanna Siwy

‘Zapping’ viruses can speed identification, physicist finds

Physicist Zuzanna Siwy is working on faster identification of viruses to enable earlier treatment.

Roger McWilliams

Old-fashioned physicist invents futuristic tools

With his bow ties and seersucker suits, Roger McWilliams might appear to be old-fashioned, but the UCI physicist invents futuristic laser tools that have advanced everything from telecommunications to healthcare.

Physicist receives German research award

Zuzanna Siwy, physics & astronomy assistant professor at UC Irvine, has received a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the…

UC Irvine astronomers’ simulations support dark matter theory

The tests addressed the elusive matter’s existence despite it never having been observed

Medical physics residency program accredited

The medical physics residency program in UC Irvine’s Department of Radiation Oncology was recently accredited by the Commission on Accreditation…

The FASER particle detector that received CERN approval to be installed at the Large Hadron Collider in 2019 has recently been augmented with an instrument to detect neutrinos.

UC Irvine-led team is first to detect neutrinos made by a particle collider

Discovery promises to help physicists understand nature of universe’s most abundant particle

Tibor Juhasz

Grabbing the Golden Goose

Tibor Juhasz honored for discovery that led to laser eye surgery

Susan O’Brien, professor of hematology/oncology and associate director for clinical science at the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

2022 Year in Review – Phenomenal faculty

A year of groundbreaking growth and accomplishments