sustainability

New towers add modern touch to student housing community inspired by Tolkien mythology

With unmatched 10 straight years in top 10, campus is higher ed sustainability leader

During April, UCI will battle other University of California institutions in the 2019 Cool Campus Challenge, a contest to see which location can do the most to reduce its carbon footprint and spread the word about the importance of going carbon neutral. The systemwide competition motivates campus communities to support the UC Carbon Neutrality Initiative, […]

Interdisciplinary experts convened on campus for two-day public conference on looming existential threat

The ammonia you use to clean and disinfect your kitchen floor starts off as nitrogen, a gas that makes up almost 80 percent of Earth’s atmosphere. But the conversion requires the breaking of a strong triple-chemical bond in a high-heat, high-pressure industrial process. UCI physicist Huolin Xin worked with his colleagues at Brookhaven National Laboratory […]

Campus network focuses on healthy culture for all Anteaters

UCI students create sustainability cookbook of delicious, no-guilt recipes for peers

With a $30,000 grant from the University of California Global Climate Leadership Council, Oladele Ogunseitan, chair and professor in UCI’s Program in Public Health, will host a workshop in the winter quarter of 2019 to train as many as 20 faculty members in the Susan and Henry Samueli College of Health Sciences to integrate the health […]

Research to focus on better connectivity between transportation and energy sectors

Campus nets No. 1 spot in Sierra’s ‘Cool Schools’ ranking, STARS Platinum rating