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Susan and Henry Samueli give $50 million to UCI’s engineering school
Irvine, Calif., June 5, 2023 — The creation of three new multidisciplinary research institutes in The Henry Samueli School of Engineering is being made possible by a $50 million gift from Susan and...
View ArticleNursing home dementia residents’ care linked to majority presence, UC...
Irvine, Calif., June 6, 2023 — The quality of care for nursing home residents with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias is best when they are in the majority, but most facilities also accommodate...
View ArticleUC Irvine engineers invent a way to 3D print optical-grade glass at the...
A research team led by scientists at the University of California, Irvine has developed a new low-temperature method for 3D printing optical-grade glass, opening the door for microelectronic systems...
View ArticleBilingual, digital health tool helps reduce alcohol use, UC Irvine-led study...
Irvine, Calif., June 7, 2023 –– An automated, bilingual, computerized alcohol screening and intervention health tool is effective in reducing alcohol use among Latino emergency department patients in...
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46 percent of UCI graduates receiving bachelor’s degrees are first-generation...
Irvine, Calif., June 7, 2023 —More than 8,200 students and their families will attend University of California, Irvine commencement ceremonies between Friday, June 16, and Tuesday, June 20, in the...
View ArticleUCI Podcast: What’s next in the School of Social Sciences?
Bill Maurer is busy. When the professor of anthropology and director of UCI’s Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion isn’t researching the latest forms of transactions, discussing...
View ArticleHe teaches another kind of string theory
Tropical fish helped turn Dennis Kim into a violin virtuoso. “That’s why I practiced,” he says, recalling how his father rewarded progress on the instrument with finned additions to the young...
View ArticleBringing emotional intelligence to artificial intelligence
Karishma and Pratyush Muthukumar play to each other’s strengths. Over the years, the siblings, UCI alumni, have tag-teamed many projects together, employing their respective expertise in cognitive...
View ArticleHuman-caused climate change to blame for increase in California’s wildfires
Irvine, Calif., June 12, 2023 – In the quarter century between 1996 and 2020, wildfires in California consumed five times more area than they did from 1971 to 1995. Researchers at the University of...
View ArticleUCI commencement ceremonies to take place June 16-20
EVENT: UCI will host commencement services for its 58th graduating class over four days in the Bren Events Center. Between Friday, June 16, and Tuesday, June 20, 11 ceremonies will take place – with...
View ArticleUC Irvine neuroscientists develop ‘meta-cell’ to move Alzheimer’s fight forward
Irvine, Calif., June 13, 2023 –University of California, Irvine neuroscientists probing the gene changes behind Alzheimer’s disease have developed a process of making a “meta-cell” that overcomes the...
View ArticleDark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument early data release holds nearly 2...
Irvine, Calif., June 13, 2023 – The universe is big, and it’s getting bigger at a faster rate every day, but astronomers don’t understand why. To study the mysterious force known as dark energy behind...
View ArticleQuinton Smith named 2023 Pew Scholar in the Biological Sciences
Quinton Smith, UC Irvine assistant professor in chemical and biomolecular engineering, has been named a 2023 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences. The Pew Charitable Trusts supports outstanding...
View ArticleAnai Campos Contreras named 2023 Pew Latin American Fellow in the Biomedical...
The Pew Charitable Trusts has named Anai Campos Contreras, incoming UC Irvine postdoctoral fellow in pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences, a 2023 Pew Latin American Fellow in the Biomedical Sciences....
View ArticleUC Irvine scientists create long-lasting, cobalt-free, lithium-ion batteries
Irvine, Calif., June 14, 2023 – In a discovery that could reduce or even eliminate the use of cobalt – which is often mined using child labor – in the batteries that power electric cars and other...
View ArticleUC Irvine receives grant to study lead exposure effects on children’s...
Irvine, Calif., June 14, 2023 –The Program in Public Health at the University of California, Irvine has received a five-year, $2.7 million grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health...
View ArticleUCI celebrates 2023-24 scholarship recipients
The Scholarship Opportunities Program at UCI is pleased to announce record placements in prestigious, national merit scholarship competitions. The honorees include: five Fulbright recipients, two...
View ArticleStudy reveals potential breakthrough in grapevine disease resistance
Irvine, Calif., June 15, 2023 — A team of scientists – including UC Irvine’s Distinguished Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Brandon Gaut and UC Davis’ Professors of Viticulture &...
View ArticleUC Irvine joins Unizin consortium to enhance student success
Irvine, Calif., and Austin, Texas, June 15, 2023 – The University of California, Irvine has joined Unizin, a consortium of leading academic and research institutions committed to optimizing digital...
View ArticleUC Irvine to lead multi-institutional study of single-cell vulnerabilities to...
Irvine, Calif., June 15, 2023 — The University of California, Irvine has received a five-year, $10 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to lead a multi-institutional study of specific...
View ArticleUC Irvine-led researchers reveal new molecular mechanism for stimulating hair...
Irvine, Calif., June 21, 2023 — The process by which aged, or senescent, pigment-making cells in the skin cause significant growth of hair inside skin moles, called nevi, has been identified by a...
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Tassel time!
More than 8,200 students and their families participated in 11 festive commencement ceremonies between Friday, June 16, and Tuesday, June 20, in the campus’s Bren Events Center. Overall, UCI granted...
View ArticleUCI receives 5-star rating from Money
Irvine, Calif., June 22, 2023 — For its 2023-24 Best Colleges in America list, Money has again ranked UCI near the very top. Instead of numbering universities, the magazine has assigned UCI a...
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A beloved incubator for business innovators
A lot of ambitious alumni tend to rush into their careers and, over the years, may view their time on campus as a fond yet distant memory. But to many UCI graduates, campus is where their...
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UC Irvine-led study links ice sheet retreat with autumnal monsoons in central...
Irvine, Calif., June 26, 2023 — Rising sea levels from melting land ice caused an abrupt transition from dry to wet conditions in a subregion of mainland Southeast Asia some 14,000 years ago,...
View ArticleUC Irvine scientists develop freely available risk model for hurricanes,...
Irvine, Calif., June 27, 2023 — As human-driven climate change amplifies natural disasters, hurricanes and typhoons stand to increase in intensity. Until now, there existed very few freely available...
View ArticleDOE awards $3.75 Million to engineering for research in clean energy...
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded $3.75 million to UCI engineers for research in clean energy. The award is one of 22 issued by the DOE to advance critical technologies for producing, storing,...
View ArticleCarnegie Corporation recognizes Kyriacos Athanasiou as a ‘Great Immigrant’
Irvine, Calif., June 28, 2023 — Kyriacos Athanasiou, University of California, Irvine Distinguished Professor of biomedical engineering, has been named a “Great Immigrant” by the Carnegie Corporation...
View ArticleTown hall recap
Before an online audience of nearly 1,500, Chancellor Howard Gillman and other UCI leaders hosted a town hall Wednesday, sharing information on the university’s newly refreshed strategic plan, the...
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