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The car in your garage can power your...

September 17, 2026

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?

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The Secret to Affordable Biomanufacturing:...

September 16, 2026

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.

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Graphic with headshot of UC Irvine researcher Maxim Shcherbakov

Lighting the Way: Where Photonics Fits...

September 15, 2026

As AI becomes embedded in modern life, the hardware powering it is running up against its physical limits. Meanwhile, its energy consumption is straining energy grids and increasing scrutiny over AI's environmental footprint.

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Initiative led by Khargonekar receives...

September 14, 2026

Pramod Khargonekar, UC Irvine Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, will serve as principal investigator on a landmark new five-year cooperative agreement awarded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Directorate to support the Engineering Research Visioning Alliance (ERVA). The award provides nearly $8 million in projected funding through August 2031, positioning UCI at the forefront of efforts to shape the nation's future engineering research agenda.

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Fangyuan Ding

New Grant Supports Research on RNA-Protein...

September 9, 2026

The brain's ability to form memories and process information depends on proteins that bind to RNA molecules inside neurons. With support from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), Fangyuan Ding's lab at UC Irvine is developing a new tool to observe these interactions.

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Athina Markopoulou

People of ACM - Athina Markopoulou

September 8, 2026

Athina Markopoulou is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). She is also the director of UCI’s California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), and of the Samueli School of Engineering’s e+Society Institute on AI (ProperAI).

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UCI Biomedical Engineering Professor Naomi Chesler

Naomi Chesler: Researching How Female...

September 4, 2026

Naomi Chesler on why women display symptoms may be different than those of men when they have heart attacks

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