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UCI Ph.D. students Sofia Pilar Brown and Jared Ura

Two UCI Researchers Make Breakthroughs...

September 2, 2026

Using a kitchen microwave to synthesize battery materials and teaching a quantum computer to predict the behavior of materials are some of the key breakthroughs that two Ph.D. students at the UC Irvine Samueli School of Engineering have made during their fellowship with the Los Alamos National Lab (LANL) this past year. The UCI-LANL-SoCalHub Research Fellowship gives selected students who are working in areas of common interest with the national lab the opportunity to be mentored by a UCI professor and a LANL scientist.

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Students at the Materials Science and Engineering Camp at UC Irvine

New Summer Academy Immerses High School...

August 31, 2026

That week was the inaugural summer academy of M-SEA – the Self-Healing Ocean Infrastructure and Marine Science and Engineering Academy – a research and education program at the UC Irvine Samueli School of Engineering, in collaboration with the Ocean Institute and supported by the Nicholas Endowment.

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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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