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Clockwise from left: Assistant professor of education Symone Gyles, Professor of Civil & Environmental Enginnering Brett Sanders, Sara Ludovise with the OCDE, Associate professor of education Hosun Kang, and professor of education Rossella Santagata. The National Science Foundation has awarded an interdisciplinary team from the University of California, Irvine a three-year, $1.6 million grant focused on creating an accessible and equity-centered model for high school environmental engineering education intended to inspire and properly prepare students for careers in this field.

NSF funds UC Irvine project to improve climate science learning in high schools

Biological sciences, education and engineering schools team up to create curriculum

October 30, 2023
The blended wing body aircraft that the U.S. Air Force has tasked JetZero to build and fly in four years.

A revolutionary plane coming soon

Robert Liebeck co-designed the blended wing body aircraft set to fly in 4 years

October 30, 2023

NASA funds UC Irvine-led mission to record changes in Antarctica’s ice sheet

Researchers will use data from upcoming and existing international satellite missions

October 26, 2023
UCI College Corps cohort 2 at the campus’s recent launch party.

UC Irvine welcomes second class of College Corps fellows

State program helps students pay for higher education by serving community

October 23, 2023
Greenland is dotted with frozen meltwater lakes such as the one above, photographed during a NASA expedition in 2012.

Ice sheet surface melt is accelerating in Greenland and slowing in Antarctica

UC Irvine-led researchers identify contributions of downslope winds and ozone layer

October 16, 2023

UC Irvine alum receives 2023 MacArthur “genius grant”

A. Park Williams to use funding to study climate change and its connection to droughts, wildfires

October 04, 2023

UC Irvine scientists reveal what fuels wildfires in Sierra Nevada Mountains

The work could help improve California’s wildfire management efforts

September 25, 2023
Researchers in field.

UC Irvine leads regional project to reduce climate change risks in California

$5.5 million effort will prioritize community engagement, environmental justice

September 06, 2023
UCI researchers (from left) Alejandro Camacho, Isabella Velicogna and Steven Allison.

3 UC Irvine professors garner $8.7 million in state support for climate action projects

UC awards total of more than $80 million for progress toward California’s climate goals

August 23, 2023
Snow field with the ITEX snow fence at Toolik Field Station in Alaska.

UC Irvine scientists say deepening Arctic snowpack drives greenhouse gas emissions

Insulating effect of deeper snow is thawing ancient carbon permafrost reserves

August 16, 2023