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A Smartphone App Could Change How Stroke...

February 12, 2026

In assessing stroke patient rehabilitation, clinicians have largely relied on their eyes to measure how well a stroke patient can move, grasp and let go. But what if a pocket-sized tool could capture every motion, quantify progress and provide new insight — all in the time it takes to open an app?

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Computer science graduate students Ziqiang

A Smartphone App Could Change How Stroke...

February 12, 2026

In assessing stroke patient rehabilitation, clinicians have largely relied on their eyes to measure how well a stroke patient can move, grasp and let go. But what if a pocket-sized tool could capture every motion, quantify progress and provide new insight — all in the time it takes to open an app?

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Md Hedayatullah Maktoomi (center) accepts his award for second best student paper at the IEEE RWS from the contest co-chairs Kenneth Kolodziej (left), MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and Davi V.Q. Rodriguez (right), University of Texas, El Paso.

Aghasi’s Team Wins a Student Paper...

February 9, 2026

Electrical engineering and computer science graduate student Md Hedayatullah Maktoomi received second place for his research paper in the 2026 IEEE MTT-S Student Paper Competition. The award was announced at the IEEE Radio Wireless Symposium (RWS) in January 2026 in Hollywood.

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A bird’s eye view of San Clemente State Beach in Southern California shows Pacific Ocean waves lapping onto shore, a cluster of umbrellas and, to the far right, a rail corridor that serves passenger and freight trains. UC Irvine’s Brett Sanders says San Clemente is one of many examples of beaches in California that demonstrate their value in multiple ways. UC Irvine Flood Lab

Widening Beaches Make California 500...

February 5, 2026

Southern California's beaches have grown more than 500 acres over the past four decades despite being one of the most heavily urbanized and dammed coastal regions in the world, according to a new study conducted by researchers at the University of California, Irvine, the U.S. Geological Survey and other institutions. The conventional wisdom-challenging revelation about coastal erosion and replenishment is the subject of a study published recently in Nature Communications.

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UC Irvine assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science Rahim Esfandyar-pour

UC Irvine Researchers Develop an ML-powered,...

January 29, 2026

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have developed a multimodal, bioelectronic wrist-worn device for objective, continuous, real-time monitoring of stress. Outlined in a paper published in Nature Communications, the Smart Quantitative and Comprehensive Stress Assessor and Sub-Classifier simultaneously tracks molecular stress biomarkers alongside physiological stress indicators, providing a complete and precise picture of how stress is experienced by humans.

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Xian Shi was selected as an ARPA-E IGNIITE 2025 Awardee

Xian Shi Named ARPA-E IGNIITE 2025 Awardee...

January 28, 2026

Xian Shi, UCI assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, has been selected as an awardee of the 2025 Inspiring Generations of New Innovators to Impact Technologies in Energy (IGNIITE) program from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E). The program supports early-career scientists and engineers with ideas that have the potential to transform the nation’s energy landscape.

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Chiyelum Ashley Nwagboso is the president of the National Society of Black Engineers @UCI.

NSBE@UCI President and Honeywell Intern...

January 25, 2026

Chiyelum Ashley Nwagboso is the president of the National Society of Black Engineers @UCI and has interned at Honeywell and Chevron. An electrical engineering senior who will graduate this spring, she helped NSBE grow from eight members to over 30.

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