UCI makes sustainability ‘honor roll’ for 5th time

UCI has been selected for The Princeton Review’s 2018 Green College Honor Roll, the fifth time it has made the list, which salutes universities earning a perfect score of 99 in The Princeton Review’s sustainability rating system. This year, 24 U.S. schools were listed, out of 629 evaluated, and UCI was the only UC campus included. […]

UCI part of NSF-funded study of big data ethics

From mobile phone applications to website search engines, wearable technology to social platforms, consumer data has become highly obtainable and trackable. The result is an ethically questionable free-for-all in research and marketing, but consumers aren’t the only ones concerned about how their personal information is being collected and utilized. UCI is one of six institutions […]

Forbes ranks UCI 8th in nation for ‘best value’

Survey analyzed school quality, job earnings and student debt

UCI’s new 2-D materials conduct electricity near the speed of light

Substances could revolutionize electronic and computing devices

Concurrent heat waves, air pollution exacerbate negative health effects of each

Future may bring more overlap of synergistic weather factors, UCI researchers warn

Spiritual science

Physics professor’s book aims to bridge the divide between faith and reason

Our daily discards

Eye-popping Earth Week exhibit shows how far campus is from zero-waste goal

Visiting Distinguished Professor Simon Levin to receive National Medal of Science

Simon Levin, a Visiting Distinguished Professor in ecology & evolutionary biology, will receive the National Medal of Science – the nation’s highest scientific honor – at a White House ceremony during the spring. Levin, the George M. Moffett Professor of Biology at Princeton University, studies complex patterns in nature and how they came to be. At […]

Charles Anthony Smith

Political science study co-authored by UCI debunks idea of public opinion backlash

Does putting same-sex marriage in the public spotlight impede future policy gains for gay and lesbian couples? A new study says no, contrary to previous research on the topic. The findings, which appear in the American Journal of Political Science, should bring hope to marginalized groups that may otherwise be dissuaded from pursuing public change, said Charles Anthony Smith, UCI associate professor of political science and study co-author.

Christina Rodriguez

Fostering freshmen

Summer Bridge experience eases transition to UCI for first-generation, low-income or disabled students