Highlights of 2013 at UCI
Year brings scientific advances, national accolades, international outreach, student achievement … and zombies
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UC Irvine receives California's highest environmental honor - again
Irvine, Calif., Dec. 10, 2013 – UC Irvine’s Smart Labs program has earned California’s highest environmental honor, the Governor’s Environmental & Economic Leadership Award. Announced Tuesday in Sacramento, the award acknowledges individuals, organizations and businesses that demonstrate exceptional leadership and make notable, voluntary contributions toward conserving California’s precious resources, protecting and enhancing the environment, building […]
Power player
Vice Chancellor Wendell Brase is widely credited with curbing campus’s energy consumption and costs
UCI engineering school gets grant from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Irvine, Calif., Nov. 20, 2013 – The Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine will receive a $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for developing a solar stove that enables carbon emissions-free cooking. The Grand Challenges Explorations initiative is intended to foster outside-the-box solutions to persistent global health […]
UCI engineering school gets grant from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Irvine, Calif., Nov. 20, 2013 – The Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine will receive a $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for developing a solar stove that enables carbon emissions-free cooking. The Grand Challenges Explorations initiative is intended to foster outside-the-box solutions to persistent global health and […]
UCI vice chancellor addresses congressional subcommittee about 'innovation deficit'
John Hemminger, vice chancellor for research at UC Irvine, today addressed the congressional Subcommittee on Energy and called for increased support of fundamental science research to address an emerging innovation deficit in the U.S. “The strong support from Congress and the American people for fundamental scientific research and higher education has been responsible for the […]
U.S. scientists celebrate Nobel Prize for Higgs field discovery
Irvine, Calif., Oct. 8, 2013 — The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences today awarded the Nobel Prize in physics to theorists Peter Higgs and Francois Englert to recognize their work in developing the theory of what is now known as the Higgs field, which gives elementary particles mass. U.S. scientists, including those at UC Irvine, played […]
Scientists celebrate their roles in physics Nobel
Eight UCI physics & astronomy professors are involved in Higgs boson data analysis
Seeing and believing
With the opening of the Gavin Herbert Eye Institute’s new home, UC Irvine builds on its reputation as a major clinical and research center
EPA deputy administrator joins UCI students for Earth-friendly lunch
Bob Perciasepe, the Environmental Protection Agency’s deputy administrator, joined the cafeteria line today at the University of California, Irvine, where he shared a zero-waste lunch with students and commended the campus on its zero-waste and food recovery achievements. UC Irvine’s zero-waste program diverts from landfills 83 percent of the campus’s total waste materials by recycling, reusing and composting. In addition, the university has increased its food waste diversion from 90 tons in 2010 to 500 tons in 2012, when it joined the EPA’s Food Recovery Challenge.