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Ian Kuo (left) and Jasmine Chang (right) at the Oceanit office in Honolulu, Hawaii

UCI Engineering Students Develop Innovative...

August 27, 2026

From harvesting water from Hawaii’s mountain fog to sending swarms of autonomous drones across the ocean, two UC Irvine engineering students spent their summer developing innovative solutions to challenges facing their home state.

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UC Irvine Distinguished Professor Guann-Pyng (G.P.) Li

UC Irvine Researchers Awarded $3 Million...

August 24, 2026

Researchers from the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (CALIT2) at UC Irvine have been awarded $3 million in funding from the California Energy Commission (CEC) to lead a four-year research initiative to transform how the electrical grid harmonizes with privately owned energy assets, such as rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) systems, batteries, and electric vehicles (EVs).

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Iryna Zenyuk wearing a gray sweater at her UCI lab, poses with arms folded.

Iryna Zenyuk Wins International Society...

August 21, 2026

Iryna Zenyuk, UC Irvine professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, has won the Zhaowu Tian Prize for Energy Electrochemistry, an annual global award bestowed by the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) to researchers under the age of 40 for outstanding achievements in electrochemical energy science, storage and conversion.

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Mohammadreza Rostami

Mohammadreza Rostami awarded Graduate...

August 6, 2026

UC Irvine mechanical and aerospace engineering Ph.D. student Mohammadreza Rostami has received the Graduate Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship.

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UCI Professor Naomi Chesler in the lab.

Naomi Chesler Receives $4.9 Million...

July 16, 2026

UC Irvine Chancellor's Inclusive Excellence Professor Naomi Chesler has been awarded a $4.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue her research into RVF using a combination of experiments in rodent models of disease, human tissue, and computational multi-scale modeling.

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Professor Mo Li in her research lab.

Transforming Concrete for a More Sustainable...

July 14, 2026

For Mo Li, professor and chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Irvine, making concrete more sustainable is one of the most important engineering challenges of this century. Her research lab is developing technologies that make concrete more sustainable across its entire life cycle – from cleaner cement production and more efficient manufacturing to smarter, longer-lasting infrastructure and the recovering of materials for the next generation of construction.

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Professor Jonathan Posner Ph.D ’01, B.S.’95 at Lake Washington

Q&A: Creator of Safest Football Helmet...

July 10, 2026

Jonathan Posner Ph.D ’01, B.S.’95, designed the world’s safest football helmet and most efficient natural draft portable wood stove, which has helped millions enjoy safer cooking in East Africa. He is a professor of mechanical engineering and chemical engineering at University of Washington and an adjunct professor of medicine.

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