UC Irvine welcomes Year of the Snake with 10th annual Lunar New Year celebration

EVENT: UC Irvine will honor a decade of tradition and celebrate the upcoming Lunar New Year – heralding the Year of the Snake – with cultural games, hands-on arts and crafts, food, musical and dance performances, a dragon parade, a lion dance, and more. WHEN/WHERE: 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 21, with activities and performances […]

UC Irvine-led policy brief presents approach for understanding prison violence

Project addresses its scale, sources and consequences

Hamid Jafarkhani (left), Chancellor’s Professor of electrical engineering & computer science, and Jianhua Yu, professor of medicine, hematology & oncology.

Two UC Irvine researchers named fellows by National Academy of Inventors

Hamid Jafarkhani and Jianhua Yu recognized for beneficial innovations

UC Irvine researchers reveal superconductivity secrets of an iron-based material

Findings could spur advancements in quantum computing and electronics

Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk, UC Irvine associate professor of physiology and biophysics.

UC Irvine-co-led study finds DNA damage is key factor in age-related macular degeneration

Targeting specific retinal cell types could lead to treatments that slow or stop progression

Two people walking through burned trees in a forest landscape.

California wildfires have become more severe, killing more trees, UC Irvine researchers find

More state forests are vulnerable to wildfire due to climate change

Xiangmin Xu, UC Irvine Chancellor’s Professor of anatomy and neurobiology and director of the campus’s Center for Neural Circuit Mapping.

UC Irvine-led study reveals new insights into how we navigate space and store memories

UC Irvine-led study reveals new insights into how we navigate space and store memories

Students in front of the UC Irvine Student Center.

UC Irvine named Fulbright HSI Leader by US State Department for fourth year

Campus honored for its engagement with international academic exchange program

UC Irvine to host Día de los Muertos event featuring Grammy-winning Mariachi Divas

EVENT: UC Irvine’s School of Social Ecology will host its second annual Día de los Muertos event, complete with live music, dancing, a virtual and physical altar, customary foods, face painting and crafts. The free celebration will immerse attendees in the rich Mexican tradition of honoring and remembering deceased loved ones. WHEN/WHERE: 3:30-8 p.m. Monday, […]

composite photograph of three male scientists.

A trick of light: UC Irvine researchers turn silicon into direct bandgap semiconductor

Discovery enables manufacturing of ultrathin solar panels, advanced optoelectronics