CERN approves UCI-initiated hunt for new particles at the Large Hadron Collider
FASER detector will seek clues pointing to hidden matter in the universe
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Confronting climate change
Interdisciplinary experts convened on campus for two-day public conference on looming existential threat
International panel of scientists, writers, academics and communicators to speak at two-day UCI conference on climate change
EVENT: The UCI Forum for the Academy and the Public presents, “Fire & Ice: The Shifting Narrative of Climate Change,” a two-day conference that will tackle the most serious threat to humanity today: climate change. It will feature an interdisciplinary and international panel of scientists, writers, academics and communicators – including Pulitzer Prize winner […]
UCI to celebrate Lunar New Year
EVENT: UCI will be celebrating the upcoming Lunar New Year – heralding the Year of the Pig – with an academic discussion, multicultural entertainment, lion and dragon parades, food, light and sound show and more. WHEN/WHERE: Monday, Jan. 28, with an academic discussion with the Richard Nixon Foundation regarding the Nixon Tapes, administration documents and historical artifacts […]
Global warming will have us crying in what's left of our beer
UCI, other scientists project sharp declines in barley yields due to climate change
UCI in the News
Inside Higher Ed, Sept. 10, 2024 (Opinion) Opinion: Tim Walz, China and Me The choice of a vice presidential candidate with deep ties to China prompts Jeffrey Wasserstrom to reflect on trips taken and not. Jeffrey Wasserstrom, UCI Chancellor’s Professor of history writes, “We live in an era of binary thinking and all-or-nothing stances, so […]
The American Dream Personified
From helping homeless youths to leading California’s community college system, UCI alumni are living out the American dream in myriad ways. Tenacious, intelligent and driven, they have overcome adversity to achieve their visions and make a difference in their communities and in the world. Below, we explore just a small sampling of the fascinating success stories created by UCI graduates.
UCI to host 2018 California-Shanghai Innovation Dialogue conference
EVENT: Scholars, policymakers and industry professionals from around the world will convene at the University of California, Irvine to explore the future of the “fintech” sector in the U.S. and China at the two-day California-Shanghai Innovation Dialogue conference. The focus will be the rise of China’s middle class, shifts in the U.S. labor market, and evolving […]
Skills-focused preschool programs better at boosting school readiness
Widely used ‘whole-child’ curricula do not yield superior benefits, UCI-led study finds
UCI physicist Jing Xia wins Macronix Prize
Jing Xia, UCI associate professor of physics & astronomy, has been awarded the 2017 Macronix Prize by the International Organization of Chinese Physicists and Astronomers. Also called the Outstanding Young Researcher Award, the honor is given to early-career faculty researchers of Chinese ethnicity who are working outside Asia. “I am very pleased to have been […]