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Two innovative researchers join UCI...
The UC Irvine Samueli School of Engineering — consistently ranked among the nation's top public engineering programs and home to members of the National Academies of Engineering, Science, and Medicine — welcomes two faculty members to its ranks for the 2025-26 academic year.
Efi Foufoula-Georgiou elected to the...
Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, Distinguished Professor of civil and environmental engineering and Samueli Endowed Chair in engineering at the University of California, Irvine, has been elected an international fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
UC Irvine places eighth among nation's...
For the 12th year running, the University of California, Irvine has landed among the top 10 public universities in the country, placing eighth in U.S. News & World Report’s 2027 list of “Best Colleges” – its highest public-university ranking in over a decade.
UCI scientists tackle the hidden workforce...
UC Irvine researchers are playing a key role in a new $1 million collaborative project aimed at expanding the future energy workforce, an overlooked vulnerability of the nation's electric grid. The project, "Bridging the Canyons: Exploring Workforce Transitions in Power Generation for Energy Resilience," was recently awarded $1 million by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
UCI Engineering’s OAI Expands Summer...
From watching dolphins in the ocean to building robots and rockets, aspiring scientists and engineers explored STEM through a robust summer of programming led by the Stacey Nicholas Office of Outreach, Access and Inclusion (OAI) at UC Irvine’s Samueli School of Engineering. This summer marked a significant expansion of OAI’s programming.
The car in your garage can power your...
When there’s a power outage in your neighborhood, the usual response is to fumble around to find a flashlight or matches to light candles. What if you could keep the lights on and power your home merely by connecting your electric vehicle to a wall box in the garage?
The Secret to Affordable Biomanufacturing:...
Biomanufacturing helps us create everything from biodegradable plastics to life-saving vaccines, and enzymes are the catalyst for that process. “Think of enzymes as tiny biological machines inside every living cell,” says Han Li, PhD, an associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering in the UC Irvine Samueli School of Engineering.