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Founding faculty member and second chancellor at UCI never lost his interest in learning

Irvine, Calif., Jan. 23, 2015 – UC Irvine and Australian chemists have figured out how to unboil egg whites – an innovation that could dramatically reduce costs for cancer treatments, food production and other segments of the $160 billion global biotechnology industry, according to findings published today in the journal ChemBioChem. “Yes, we have invented […]

Dangerously high levels of air pollutants are being released in Mecca during the hajj, the annual holy pilgrimage in which millions of Muslims on foot and in vehicles converge on the Saudi Arabian city, according to findings reported today at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco.

Dry-weather ‘urban slobber’ runoff is a major pollution culprit, UCI finds

A comprehensive, 21-year analysis of the fastest-melting region of Antarctica has found that the melt rate of glaciers there has tripled during the last decade.

EVENT: The National Fuel Cell Symposium, hosted by UC Irvine, will bring together top energy and environmental policymakers, industry leaders and academics to discuss rapidly emerging fuel cell technology for power plants and cars, including construction of California’s “hydrogen highway.” WHEN/WHERE: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 27, at the Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences […]

EVENT:  U.S. Dept. of Energy Deputy Secretary Daniel Poneman will speak to UC Irvine students about the clean energy revolution and announce the 20 college teams and location for the 2015 Solar Decathlon.  Students from “Team Orange,” comprising UC Irvine, Chapman University, Irvine Valley College and Saddleback Valley College, will learn if they are selected. […]

Etel Solingen, Chancellor’s Professor of political science, has been named the Thomas T. & Elizabeth C. Tierney Chair in Global Peace & Conflict Studies.

UCI faculty and staff share their summer book selections

Basketball player turns heads on and off court – and not just because of his hair