An academic first in Antarctica

UC Irvine Ph.D. student defends dissertation at South Pole after 24-day research expedition

Rocket on a launch pad on the California coast.

UC Irvine astronomers view launch of new NASA space telescope

Two-year SPHEREx mission will map the universe and look for life-supporting molecules in the Milky Way

Women's History Month collage featuring: (top left to right: Katrine Whiteson, Sunny Jiang; (bottom left to right) Karen Lincoln, Aomawa Shields, Luiza Osorio Silva and Roxane Cohen Silver.

Profiles of excellence

For Women’s History Month, UC Irvine salutes its influential researchers

Natalie Binczewski, a UC Irvine Ph.D. candidate in environmental health sciences.

UC Irvine-led study finds possible links between PFAS exposure and childhood cancers

Results underscore value of continued monitoring for drinking water contamination

Aomawa Shields standing with arms akimbo in front of dark space backdrop with stars and planets.

UC Irvine astronomers gauge livability of exoplanets orbiting white dwarf stars

Computer model comparison reveals rotational factors contributing to habitability

People on the outside deck of an ocean research vessel at sea.

Climate change is overhauling marine nutrient cycles, UC Irvine scientists say

The research is the first field-based confirmation of such climate impacts

Alec Glasser, here speaking with a few of the Glasser Scholars during a recent meeting at the Irvine Barclay Theatre.

Scaling social solutions

Alec Glasser Center for the Power of Music and Social Change empowers individuals and communities

Scientists urged to pull the plug on ‘bathtub modeling' of flood risk

UC Irvine and University of Bristol researchers recommend analysis of complex factors

UC Irvine scientists identify potential deep-ocean greenhouse gas storage solution

Marine bacteria could store carbon long-term as complex organic molecules

An experimental bonfire

UC Irvine scientists track and analyze lofted embers that cause spot fires

Live field experiments in Sierra Nevada mountains are first of their kind