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UCI engineering Dean Magnus Egerstedt (second from right) with his research team at the UCI Robot Ecology Lab

Inspirations from Nature: UCI Robot...

December 2, 2025

If you visit the UCI Robot Ecology Lab, you’ll see swarm robots being kind to one another and environmental robots modeled after cute animals like the RaccoonBot and SlothBot. These are all the brainchild of Magnus Egerstedt, a top roboticist, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, and the dean of the UCI Samueli School of Engineering.

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Experiments in the lab of Professor Farhat Beg at UC San Diego. Professor Beg is co-leading one of two teams of UC researchers awarded $4 million grants to accelerate progress toward a future powered by abundant, stable, zero-carbon fusion energy. Credit: David Baillot / UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering

UC Awards $8 Million to Solve Next Big...

November 20, 2025

The University of California has awarded $8 million in multicampus research grants, in partnership with UC-managed national laboratories, to accelerate progress toward a future powered by abundant, stable, zero-carbon fusion energy. The UC Initiative for Fusion Energy provides two grants of $4 million over three years.

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UCI MESA students who attended the Student Leadership Conference in San Francisco included (top row, from left) Vanessa Salyer, An Bui, Kenzo Fraser and Warren Fekeith; (bottom row, from left) MESA Director Dayana Rivas, Vianny Cuevas, Ruby Flores and Marlen Leyva Arellano.

UCI Students Network with Peers, Industry...

November 20, 2025

Seven UC Irvine undergraduate STEM students attended MESA’s Student Leadership Conference this month in San Francisco for a weekend of networking with industry professionals and leadership training. The MESA (Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement) program guides diverse students from underrepresented backgrounds into STEM education and careers.

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Stacy Copp looks at tubes of nanoclusters at her UCI lab. (Photo: Natalie Tso/UCI)

Stacy Copp Using Light and Color for...

November 18, 2025

Stacy Copp, UC Irvine associate professor of materials science and engineering, has always been fascinated with light and color. “As a kid, I played with flashlights in the closet and watched rainbows when the sun would set,” she said.

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Amir AghaKouchak

European Geosciences Union Recognizes...

November 12, 2025
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UCI National Fuel Cell Research Center Director Iryna Zenyuk began playing chess in national tournaments in Ukraine at age 7 (left).

Zenyuk Uses Mastermind to Create Clean...

November 5, 2025
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UCI engineering alumni Theophil (TJ) Oros (left) and Nick Cecchi developed a headgear test method specific to water polo and conducted the first ever study on the efficacy of water polo headgears.

First-of-its-Kind Water Polo Headgear...

November 5, 2025
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