UCI one of America's top-10 ‘Coolest Schools'

Praised for its green initiatives, Sierra magazine ranks the campus sixth for the second year in a row.

Waste not, want not

UCI invents way to turn sewage into hydrogen power.

Bill Maurer

Embarking on a new adventure

Anthropology professor Bill Maurer takes the reins as associate dean in School of Social Sciences.

Sewage-to-hydrogen fuel station opens

UCI’s fuel cell center technology powers new sewage-to-hydrogen fuel station.

Stem cells restore cognitive abilities impaired by brain cancer treatment

UCI study by radiology oncologist Charles Limoli suggests transplantation of human neural stem cells can alleviate side effects of radiotherapy.

UCI's efforts to reduce carbon recognized

Honor rewards operations, curriculum and research designed to mitigate climate change.

Building better lives

When four members of the UC Irvine student chapter of Engineers Without Borders headed to Endana, Kenya, last August to see how they could best help the rural community, it proved to be a real-life pass/fail test in leadership. “We didn’t know what we were getting into,” recalls Morgan Bailey, EWB chapter president and a doctoral candidate […]

$10 million gift to support UCI research

Donation will support the campus’s top scientists and their transformational research, as well as help with construction of a new building in The Paul Merage School of Business.

Mikael Nilsson

Taking the ‘waste' out of nuclear waste

While spent nuclear fuel continues to pile up by the ton across the United States, engineering professor Mikael Nilsson says the solution is clear: recycle it at the commercial nuclear power plants that create it.

From Plato to behind the plate

UCI philosophy grad and baseball star Francis Larson leaves prestigious London school to reconnect with his first love – baseball.