engineering

UCI researchers pioneer technique permitting unprecedented peek inside neurons at activity of ion channels

Timothy Rupert, assistant professor of mechanical & aerospace engineering, has been awarded an Early Career Research grant from the U.S. Department of Energy.

Beckman Laser Institute & Medical Clinic director Bruce Tromberg has received the Michael S. Feld Biophotonics Award from The Optical Society. One of 15 prestigious awards bestowed by the society in 2015, it recognizes individuals for their innovative and influential contributions to the field of biophotonics. A UCI professor of surgery and biomedical engineering who runs […]

Joyce Keyak, professor in residence of radiological sciences at UCI’s School of Medicine, had been inducted into the American Institute for Medical & Biological Engineering‘s College of Fellows for outstanding contributions in the area of imaging and skeletal biomechanics. The College of Fellows comprises the top 2 percent of medical and biological engineers in the […]

Squid are the ultimate camouflage artists, blending almost flawlessly into the background so that unsuspecting prey can’t detect them. Using a protein key to this process, UCI researchers have designed “invisibility stickers” that could one day help soldiers disguise themselves, even when sought by enemies with tough-to-fool infrared cameras. Assistant professor of chemical engineering & materials […]

Researchers urge greater control of resultant erosion in future scenarios

Professor James Hicks, director of UCI’s Exercise Medicine & Sport Sciences Initiative, leads novel probe of impact injuries in water polo

The W.M. Keck Foundation has awarded $2 million to UC Irvine to develop a photonic “magnetic nanoprobe,” a microscope able to amplify, detect and possibly manipulate the extremely weak optical-frequency magnetic fields in matter.

Interdisciplinary Center on Family Violence brings together community partners, faculty from 20 UCI departments to address multifaceted issue

Dry-weather ‘urban slobber’ runoff is a major pollution culprit, UCI finds