Rising waters
UCI students help coastal communities brace for climate change
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Dr. Roger Steinert named interim dean of UCI School of Medicine
Renowned eye surgeon Dr. Roger Steinert has been named interim dean of the UC Irvine School of Medicine.
Community conference
TEDxUCIrvine, set for May 31, will explore ‘The Adventure of Discovery’
Prominent materials science physicist to join UCI faculty
Xiaoqing Pan, an internationally recognized researcher in the physics of materials, will join the UC Irvine faculty and lead a $20 million initiative to establish a world-class electron microscopy and materials science research facility.
Lauds & Laurels to salute 18 campus heroes
Entrepreneur, philanthropist and community leader Thomas Yuen to receive UC Irvine Alumni Association’s premier honor.
UCI exceeds energy reduction goal of federal Better Buildings Challenge
The U.S. Department of Energy has recognized UC Irvine for surpassing its Better Buildings Challenge goal of improving campus energy efficiency by 20 percent by 2020. UC Irvine is the first educational institution in the nation to meet or exceed this objective, and it did so seven years early.
Encouraging cross-campus collaboration
Multidisciplinary projects focused on data science, medical humanities and water will be funded under new Interschool Academic Initiative program
Time travelers
Scientists use radiocarbon dating to analyze everything from the world’s oldest shoe to sediment samples that shed light on global climate change.
With 37 recipients this year, UCI is ninth in nation for NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
UC Irvine graduate students won 37 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships this year, putting the campus ninth in the nation and tied for second within the University of California system for the prestigious awards. The fellowships recognize and support outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based […]
UCI-led NSF center will leverage industry partnerships to improve development of microfluidic devices
Thirteen industry partners gathered recently at UC Irvine’s Henry Samueli School of Engineering for the inaugural meeting of participants in a new National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center. The Center for Advanced Design & Manufacturing of Integrated Microfluidics will create design tools and manufacturing technologies for integrated microfluidics, also known as labs-on-a-chip. The tiny devices can be used for cost-effective, quick and easy diagnosis of problems in the environment, agriculture and human health.