Transforming human health
The COSI labs are home to up-and-coming laser technology that can be used to fight disease and illness
February 16, 2021
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physical sciences
Roy Eddleman gives $1 million to establish new UCI graduate fellowship
Funds will support student learning and research in quantum science
January 14, 2021
Making methane on Mars
How UCI physicists are making a return trip from the Red Planet a possibility
January 04, 2021
Arianna's long path to the stars
UCI astrophysicist faces the universe’s darkness with help from those around her and from the stars above her
December 17, 2020
UCI astronomers analyze second-most distant quasar
Using three observatories on Maunakea in Hawaiʻi, astronomers at the University of Arizona have discovered the second-most distant quasar ever found. As part of an international effort to confirm and study the newly discovered object, a team at UCI and UC Santa Barbara used the Keck II 10-meter telescope to perform a spectroscopic analysis. The […]
June 25, 2020
UCI receives $1.5 million from philanthropist Roy Eddleman
Gift will fund research institute devoted to quantum science
May 14, 2020
UCI astronomers help implement new sky surveying tool to shed light on dark energy
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument aimed its robotic array of 5,000 fiber-optic eyes at the night sky for the first time recently to capture images showing its unique view of galaxy light. Mounted on a telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona, DESI was designed to explore the mystery of dark energy, which […]
October 28, 2019
The UCI Podcast: A conversation with Dean James Bullock, School of Physical Sciences
UCI has posted a new podcast episode featuring an interview with the recently appointed dean of the School of Physical Sciences, James Bullock. Arriving at UCI in 2004, Bullock established a reputation as a leading researcher in astronomy and cosmology. He served as chair of the Department of Physics & Astronomy prior to being named […]
October 25, 2019
Astronomers from UCI and Texas A&M peer into distant black hole's ‘sphere of influence'
Astronomers at UCI and Texas A&M University have obtained the most detailed view yet of an inner cold gas disk around a distant supermassive black hole. Studying the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 3258 with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array – a powerful radio telescope array in the high desert of northern Chile – the scientists […]
August 07, 2019
In honor of the Beall family's support, the campus's entrepreneurial and innovation platform to be renamed UCI Beall Applied Innovation
Irvine, Calif., May 23, 2019 — The University of California, Irvine has received a multimillion-dollar gift from The Beall Family Foundation, led by Donald R. and Joan F. Beall. The largest portion of the gift will go to the campus’s entrepreneurial and innovation platform, UCI Applied Innovation, which will be renamed UCI Beall Applied Innovation. […]
May 23, 2019