UCI's stem cell research building earns top sustainability ranking

Campus’s second LEED Platinum citation in one month is added to eight gold awards.

UC Irvine News Brief: UCI water expert Bill Cooper is named an AAAS fellow

The civil & environmental engineering professor was honored by peers for his distinguished interdisciplinary contributions in environmental photochemistry and free-radical chemistry in nature systems and in water treatment.

Gunther Uhlmann

Famed math professor who researches invisibility joins UCI

Famed math professor who recently joined UCI says breakthrough equations could make invisibility a possibility.

UC Irvine News Brief: Engineering professor wins water prize from Saudi prince

Mathematical modeling tools developed by UCI’s Soroosh Sorooshian and his research team are used by hydrologic services worldwide for flood forecasting.

First-of-its-kind study finds alarming increase in flow of water into oceans

UCI-led team cites global warming, accelerated cycle of evaporation, precipitation as factors.

UCI neurobiologist Leslie M. Thompson

Promoting global stem cell research awareness

The international scientific community has declared Wednesday, Oct. 6, Stem Cell Awareness Day to celebrate both the advances already made in that area of research and the promise it holds for the future. As a nationally recognized leader in the field, UC Irvine will commemorate the day with two events.

UC Irvine News Brief: Kenyan dignitary talks sustainable agriculture with UCI researchers

Parliament member Peter Mwathi met with William Cooper, director of UCI’s Urban Water Research Center, and visited the Center for Hydrometeorology & Remote Sensing and the UC Center for Hydrologic Modeling.

California funds UCI basic research on stem cells

UCI’s Marian Waterman and Aileen Anderson will receive California Institute for Regenerative Medicine grants totaling more than $2.6 million to study the underlying biology of stem cells aimed at treating spinal cord injury, cancer and other disorders.

Transgenic Hydra expressing the green fluorescent protein.

UCI a historical hotbed of hydra research

UCI biologists’ groundbreaking work with the freshwater polyp hydra helped put a young campus on the map.

Jay Famiglietti

Documenting California's water woes

UCI hydrologist Jay Famiglietti calls much-needed attention to California’s dwindling groundwater supply.