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

Earth

Global Climate Change and Solutions that Scale

The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a report in March 2023 warning of the dire consequences to come if annual global mean temperature increases by 1.5 degrees Celsius over preindustrial levels, which could happen in the first half of the 2030s. Humanity is expected to face crippling heat waves, flooding, drought, mass […]

Study shows how to prevent a high-fat diet from throwing metabolism out of whack

UCI biologists discover removing a protein inhibitor restores metabolic balance

UCI’s Shining Stars

Lethal cancer cells buddy up to survive

UCI-led team’s finding could help improve treatments for pancreatic cancer

Solving algorithm ‘amnesia’ reveals clues to how we learn

Finding by UCI biologists could help combat cognitive impairments

UCI team gets $970,000 NIH grant to launch interdisciplinary skin biology training effort

A team from the UCI Skin Biology Resource Center has been awarded a five-year, $970,000 grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases to launch an interdisciplinary skin biology training program. Designed to develop the next generation of interdisciplinary research physicians and scientist leaders in academia and industry, the program takes advantage […]

Ian Smith

UCI has skin in the lab-grown meat game

Neurobiologist Ian Smith will lead campus effort to create new cell lines for research

Crimson Frankum

Crimson Frankum finds magic in science

Second year biochemistry student finds many inspirations to pursue a career in STEM

Ali Mortazavi

How life works is his life’s work

UCI professor of developmental and cell biology seeks answers to how genes are regulated