UC Irvine alum receives 2023 MacArthur “genius grant”

A. Park Williams to use funding to study climate change and its connection to droughts, wildfires

Researchers in field.

UC Irvine leads regional project to reduce climate change risks in California

$5.5 million effort will prioritize community engagement, environmental justice

UCI researchers (from left) Alejandro Camacho, Isabella Velicogna and Steven Allison.

3 UC Irvine professors garner $8.7 million in state support for climate action projects

UC awards total of more than $80 million for progress toward California’s climate goals

Brett Sanders, UCI engineering professor.

UCI shares $1.5 Million NSF award to address inequities in flood adaptation

Brett Sanders will collaborate on three-year project flood modeling in Miami-Dade County

UCI’s Henry Samueli School of Engineering

Susan and Henry Samueli give $50 million to UCI’s engineering school

Gift launches Engineering+ research institutes on health, society and the environment

UCI’s 2023-24 Hellman Fellows are (top row, from left) Diu-Huong Nguyen, Nicole Iturriaga, Cyrian Reed and Christopher Miles, as well as (bottom row, from left) Stacy Copp, Salvador Zárate, Herdeline Ardoña and Alexandra Voloshina.

8 UC Irvine faculty members named Hellman Fellows for 2023-24

Grant program supports research by promising assistant professors

UCI Podcast Indicator

UCI Podcast: Evaluating California’s flood risk

Brett Sanders, UCI professor of civil and environmental engineering, has been focusing his research efforts on understanding flood risk to Southern California’s communities. Over the years he has studied the impact of climate change-caused sea level rise along California’s coast. Lately he has been examining flood risk to regions further inland, in many cases affecting […]

Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering Brett Sanders

Flood Watchers

UCI researchers sound the alarm on future Southern California deluge

Scenic photo of UCI campus in foreground and city of Irvine in background

UC Irvine’s School of Social Ecology launches Climate and Urban Sustainability Program

Program goal is to solve complex environmental challenges

Disaster drill aims to aid the elderly

NSF-funded CareDEX project tests Internet of Things technologies in mock emergency