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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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UC Irvine’s Arash Kheradvar (left) and Gregg Pressman of Jefferson Health and their teams collaborated on a project to underscore differences in two prevalent forms of mitral valve stenosis in the heart. The research will help improve the diagnosis and treatment of the heart condition that impacts as much as 15 percent of the population. Arash Kheradvar / UC Irvine

UC Irvine Researchers Find Differences...

January 22, 2026

University of California, Irvine and Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health researchers have identified fundamental structural and functional differences between two major causes of mitral valve stenosis. This narrowing restricts blood flow through the heart.

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Graphic illustration of a connected city representing high-speed wireless data transmission

UC Irvine Engineers Invent Wireless...

January 22, 2026

A new transceiver invented by electrical engineers at the University of California, Irvine boosts radio frequencies into 140-gigahertz territory, unlocking data speeds that rival those of physical fiber-optic cables and laying the groundwork for a transition to 6G and FutureG data transmission protocols. To create the transceiver, researchers in UC Irvine's Samueli School of Engineering devised a unique architecture that blends digital and analog processing.

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Athina Markopoulou is named ACM Fellow.

Association for Computing Machinery...

January 21, 2026

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named Athina Markopoulou as one of 71 ACM Fellows for 2025. The fellows program recognizes the top 1% of ACM members for their outstanding accomplishments.

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