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Campus is first in Sierra magazine’s green schools ranking for second year in a row

Campus is first in Sierra magazine’s green schools ranking for second year in a row

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

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

Using sophisticated satellite technology, Isabella Velicogna documents the ice sheet melt in Greenland and Antarctica. The assistant professor of Earth system science has shown that glaciers are losing mass at an increasing rate — a trend with dire implications for the planet.

Isabella Velicogna‘s office in UC Irvine’s Croul Hall looks like it belongs to an artist instead of a university scientist. Her paintings and drawings — including charming sketches of mice — adorn the walls, and colorful, handcrafted mobiles dangle from the ceiling. “In my next life, I will be a children’s book illustrator,” says Velicogna, […]

New student sustainable science team makes its mark in Western Riverside.

David Kniffin ’03, men’s volleyball assistant coach, helps bring groundbreaking international tournament to UCI.

There may be a few more empty parking spaces, but life at UCI doesn’t slow that much in summer.

Can the U.S. cure its addiction to oil? To help wean the country from its petroleum habit, UC Irvine researchers have been working to find viable sources of alternative energy – from deep in the earth to the sun. Here, researchers Scott Samuelsen, Reg Penner and Derek Dunn-Rankin discuss their work on transforming solar power, […]