Gregg Macey (left), director of the Center for Land, Environment and Natural Resources at UCI Law, and Alejandro Camacho, a Chancellor’s Professor of law and faculty director of CLEANR.

Bridging state, local climate action

UCI Law launches groundbreaking program to integrate city land-use plans with California objectives

Clockwise from left: Assistant professor of education Symone Gyles, Professor of Civil & Environmental Enginnering Brett Sanders, Sara Ludovise with the OCDE, Associate professor of education Hosun Kang, and professor of education Rossella Santagata. The National Science Foundation has awarded an interdisciplinary team from the University of California, Irvine a three-year, $1.6 million grant focused on creating an accessible and equity-centered model for high school environmental engineering education intended to inspire and properly prepare students for careers in this field.

NSF funds UC Irvine project to improve climate science learning in high schools

Biological sciences, education and engineering schools team up to create curriculum

NASA funds UC Irvine-led mission to record changes in Antarctica’s ice sheet

Researchers will use data from upcoming and existing international satellite missions

Pramod Khargonekar (left), UCI vice chancellor for research and UCI’s Chief Innovation Officer Errol Arkilic (right).

UCI launches climate action innovation hub with $1 million state grant

Program will leverage regional strengths to help California reach its climate goals

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

Students staffing the Hillel at UCI table at the fall 2022 Anteater Involvement Fair are (from left) Shahar Broner, Shani Kirson, Isabella Fuiks, Daniel Stepanov, Jacob Schreiber, Sandra Ossman and Yoav Weber.

UC Irvine to participate in Hillel International’s Campus Climate Initiative

Campus is first in UC system, third in state to join cohort addressing antisemitism

Steven Davis

UC Irvine Earth system scientists plot pathways for climate-conscious air travel

Net-zero-emissions flying is possible by 2050 with new technologies and habits

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

UCI School of Social Ecology welcomes Andrew Yang for “Leading the Change Distinguished Speaker Series”

EVENT:  The School of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine, welcomes Andrew Yang for its “Leading the Change Distinguished Speaker Series.” The businessman, attorney, lobbyist, political candidate and co-founder of the Forward Party will speak on “Technology, Democracy and the Future.” Event is free and open to the public, but registration is required […]

UCI undergrad advocates for equitable climate solutions before the New Zealand Parliament

Jonpaul Cohen, a native New Zealander who has family on the Pacific islands of Samoa and Tuvalu, is passionate about protecting Polynesian culture, lives and livelihoods from the ravages of climate change. In a presentation to an environmental committee of the New Zealand Parliament on Aug. 4, the UCI undergraduate majoring in psychology advocated for […]