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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 ArticleCurbing waste improves global food security but has limited environmental...
Irvine, Calif., July 24, 2023 – Reducing waste is one way to help combat hunger around the world, but stricter control over food loss and waste does not lead to better environmental outcomes,...
View ArticleUC Irvine scientists say deepening Arctic snowpack drives greenhouse gas...
Irvine, Calif., Aug. 16, 2023 — Human-caused climate change is shortening the snow cover period in the Arctic. But according to new research led by Earth system scientists at the University of...
View Article3 UC Irvine professors garner $8.7 million in state support for climate...
Irvine, Calif., Aug. 23, 2023— Three University of California, Irvine researchers will receive more than $8 million in climate action grants to support projects that will help advance progress toward...
View ArticleUC Irvine scientists reveal what fuels wildfires in Sierra Nevada Mountains
Irvine, Calif., Sept. 25, 2023 — Wildfires in California, exacerbated by human-driven climate change, are getting more severe. To better manage them, there’s a growing need to know exactly what fuels...
View ArticleUC Irvine astronomers offer tips for safe observation of upcoming partial...
On Saturday, Oct. 14, a partial solar eclipse will be viewable across the continental U.S. The event will be an annular eclipse for viewers located along a narrow path extending from Oregon to...
View ArticleUC Irvine alum receives 2023 MacArthur “genius grant”
UC Irvine alumnus A. Park Williams has been named a 2023 MacArthur Fellow by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Williams will receive a what is known as a “genius grant” for his...
View ArticleLos Alamos National Laboratory awards prestigious fellowship to UCI physicist
Yu-Dai Tsai, UCI postdoctoral scholar in physics & astronomy, has been awarded a Director’s Fellowship at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. While continuing his work at UCI on a...
View ArticleIce sheet surface melt is accelerating in Greenland and slowing in Antarctica
Irvine, Calif., Oct. 16, 2023 — Surface ice in Greenland has been melting at an increasing rate in recent decades, while the trend in Antarctica has moved in the opposite direction, according to...
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NASA funds UC Irvine-led mission to record changes in Antarctica’s ice sheet
Irvine, Calif., Oct. 26, 2023 – NASA has awarded a $2.8 million grant to researchers at the University of California, Irvine for a five-year project to survey Antarctica’s ice sheet. Led by Eric...
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UC Irvine-led science team shows how to eat our way out of the climate crisis
Irvine, Calif., Nov. 6, 2023 — Agriculture is one of the hardest human activities to decarbonize; people must eat, but the land-use practices associated with growing crops account for roughly a...
View ArticleUC Irvine professor to help design the most powerful laser in the world
Irvine, Calif., Nov. 7, 2023 — The National Science Foundation recently awarded an $18-million grant to a team of scientists to design the most powerful laser in the world. The team includes Franklin...
View ArticleMathematician awarded Barry Prize for Distinguished Intellectual Achievement
Svetlana Jitomirskaya, UCI adjunct professor of mathematics, has received a 2023 Barry Prize from the American Academy of Sciences and Letters in recognition of intellectual excellence and courage....
View Article13 UCI faculty members make prestigious list of highly cited researchers
13 UCI faculty members have qualified for Clarivate’s 2023 list of the most influential researchers – as “demonstrated by the production of multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1 percent...
View ArticleResearchers find exoplanet that appears to be too big for its sun
A research team including UCI astronomers has discovered an exoplanet that is far too massive for its sun, casting doubt on what was previously understood about the formation of planets and their...
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UC Irvine-led team unravels mysteries of planet formation, evolution in...
Irvine, Calif., Jan. 29, 2024 – A recently discovered solar system with six confirmed exoplanets and a possible seventh is boosting astronomers’ knowledge of planet formation and evolution. Relying on...
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UC Irvine scientists make breakthrough in quantum materials research
Irvine, Calif., Jan. 31, 2024 — Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and Los Alamos National Laboratory, publishing in the latest issue of Nature Communications, describe the discovery...
View ArticleUC Irvine researchers awarded grants by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Irvine, Calif., Feb. 21, 2024 – Three University of California, Irvine researchers are on teams that have won Chan Zuckerberg Initiative grants to pursue the development of advanced medical and...
View ArticleReines Lecture at UC Irvine: UCLA astronomer and Nobel laureate Andrea Ghez
EVENT: 2024 Reines Lecture: “From the possibility to the certainty of a supermassive black hole” WHEN/WHERE: 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 12, Irvine Barclay Theater, UC Irvine campus. INFORMATION: Media...
View ArticleUC Irvine study: vehicle brakes produce charged particles that may harm...
Irvine, Calif., March 12, 2024 — Scientists know relatively little about particles released into the air when a vehicle driver brakes, though evidence suggests those particles may be more harmful to...
View ArticleGrounding zone discovery explains accelerated melting under Greenland’s glaciers
Irvine, Calif., March 13, 2024 – Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have conducted the first large-scale observation and modeling study of...
View ArticleUC Irvine scientist helps link climate change to Madagascar’s megadrought
Irvine, Calif., April 9, 2024 — A University of California, Irvine-led team reveals a clear link between human-driven climate change and the years-long drought currently gripping southern Madagascar....
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UC Irvine researchers shine light on rapid changes in Arctic and boreal...
Irvine, Calif., April 16, 2024 — Arctic and boreal latitudes are warming faster than any other region on Earth. In three new studies, Earth system scientists at the University of California, Irvine...
View Article4 UC Irvine researchers are elected AAAS fellows
Irvine, Calif., April 18, 2024 — Four University of California, Irvine researchers – working in fields as diverse as computational chemistry, statistical methods, particle physics and inorganic...
View ArticleUC Irvine astronomers’ simulations support dark matter theory
Irvine, Calif., April 29, 2024 — Computer simulations by astronomers support the idea that dark matter – matter that no one has yet directly detected but which many physicists think must be there to...
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UC Irvine-led research team discovers new property of light
Irvine, Calif., May 6, 2024 – A research team headed by chemists at the University of California, Irvine has discovered a previously unknown way in which light interacts with matter, a finding that...
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UC Irvine-led team uncovers ‘vigorous melting’ at Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier
Irvine, Calif., May 20, 2024 — A team of glaciologists led by researchers at the University of California, Irvine used high-resolution satellite radar data to find evidence of the intrusion of warm,...
View ArticleNew crystal production method could enhance quantum computers and electronics
Irvine, Calif., May 21, 2024 — In a study published in Nature Materials, scientists from the University of California, Irvine describe a new method to make very thin crystals of the element bismuth –...
View Article#IamUCI – Phoebe Roach
First-generation college student Phoebe Roach has always known that she wanted to work with the environment, but upon entering UC Irvine as an environmental engineering major, she found that...
View Article10 UC Irvine faculty members named Hellman Fellows for 2024-25
Irvine, Calif., June 5, 2024 —Ten assistant professors at the University of California, Irvine will receive Hellman Fellowships, which are bestowed annually to support research by junior faculty. They...
View ArticleExoplanet explorer
Terminator planet. Eyeball Earth. They may sound like science fiction film titles but in fact are theoretical constructs devised by astrobiologists to conjure up potentially habitable Earth-like...
View ArticleGlobally significant upwelling is driven by topographical features on seafloor
Irvine, Calif., July 9, 2024 – Exactly how the turbulent mixing of ocean water relates to global overturning circulation has been little understood by oceanographers, but an international research...
View ArticleUC Irvine Earth system scientists discover missing piece in climate models
Irvine, Calif., July 15, 2024 — As the planet continues to warm due to human-driven climate change, accurate computer climate models will be key in helping illuminate exactly how the climate will...
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Government, community and business leaders tour UC Irvine laboratories
A group of some 40 individuals — including elected officials, community leaders and business representatives — came to the Susan & Henry Samueli Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building...
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UC Irvine scientists create material that can take the temperature of...
Irvine, Calif., Aug. 14, 2024 — University of California, Irvine scientists recently discovered a one-dimensional nanoscale material whose color changes as temperature changes. The team’s results...
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UC Irvine receives record $668 million in research funding for fiscal 2023-24
Irvine, Calif., Sept. 9, 2024 — University of California, Irvine scholars, scientists and physicians continue to blaze new paths to help improve the world. In fiscal 2023-24, which ended June 30, UC...
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UC Irvine becomes host campus for Cal-Bridge program
Irvine, Calif., Sept. 25, 2024 – Cal-Bridge, a statewide program to promote participation by traditionally underrepresented groups in California’s higher education systems and technology workforce, is...
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Distinguished visitors
Dignitaries from Mexico’s Autonomous University of Hidalgo State came to UC Irvine recently to meet with campus leadership and representatives from several schools and units. The purpose of the visit,...
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UC Irvine scientists identify potential deep-ocean greenhouse gas storage...
Irvine, Calif., Oct. 17, 2024 — As the planet continues to warm and the ramifications of human-driven climate change continue to amplify, the need to find ways to mitigate climate change is growing....
View ArticleUC Irvine scientists uncovering link between gut E. coli and Parkinson’s disease
Irvine, Calif., Oct. 24, 2024 — A research team led by University of California, Irvine scientists is a step closer to uncovering the mysterious origins of Parkinson’s disease, finding that the...
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A trick of light: UC Irvine researchers turn silicon into direct bandgap...
Irvine, Calif., Oct. 31, 2024 — By creating a new way for light and matter to interact, researchers at the University of California, Irvine have enabled the manufacturing of ultrathin silicon solar...
View ArticleCalifornia wildfires have become more severe, killing more trees, UC Irvine...
Irvine, Calif., Nov. 18, 2024 — The severity of California’s wildfires has rapidly increased over the last several decades as a result of human-driven climate change, resulting in accelerated tree...
View ArticleUC Irvine researchers reveal superconductivity secrets of an iron-based material
Irvine, Calif., Dec. 5, 2024 — Scientists at the University of California, Irvine have uncovered the atomic-scale mechanics that enhance superconductivity in an iron-based material, a finding...
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UC Irvine scientists design bioluminescent RNA
Irvine, Calif., Jan. 9, 2025 — RNA is the molecule that reads the genetic information stored in DNA. It’s critical for the proper functioning of cells, and in a new study published in Nature...
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Climate change is overhauling marine nutrient cycles, UC Irvine scientists say
Irvine, Calif., Feb. 4, 2025 — Computer models reveal how human-driven climate change will dramatically overhaul critical nutrient cycles in the ocean. In the Proceedings of the National Academy of...
View ArticleTwo UC Irvine faculty members elected to National Academy of Engineering
Irvine, Calif., Feb. 12, 2025 — Two University of California, Irvine faculty members have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest professional distinctions accorded to...
View ArticleUC Irvine astronomers gauge livability of exoplanets orbiting white dwarf stars
Irvine, Calif., Feb. 13, 2025 — Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy, a greater number than previously expected could provide a stellar environment hospitable to...
View ArticleUC Irvine scientists invent new drug candidates to treat antibiotic-resistant...
Irvine, Calif., Feb. 24, 2025 — There’s an arms race in medicine – scientists design drugs to treat lethal bacterial infections, but bacteria can evolve defenses to those drugs, sending the...
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Profiles of excellence
In the past year, UC Irvine News has highlighted the research accomplishments of several exceptional women researchers on campus. In celebration of Women’s History Month, we are sharing their stories....
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