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UCI Engineering’s OAI Expands Summer...
From watching dolphins in the ocean to building robots and rockets, aspiring scientists and engineers explored STEM through a robust summer of programming led by the Stacey Nicholas Office of Outreach, Access and Inclusion (OAI) at UC Irvine’s Samueli School of Engineering. This summer marked a significant expansion of OAI’s programming.
UCI scientists tackle the hidden workforce...
UC Irvine researchers are playing a key role in a new $1 million collaborative project aimed at expanding the future energy workforce, an overlooked vulnerability of the nation's electric grid. The project, "Bridging the Canyons: Exploring Workforce Transitions in Power Generation for Energy Resilience," was recently awarded $1 million by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
The car in your garage can power your...
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?
The Secret to Affordable Biomanufacturing:...
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.
Lighting the Way: Where Photonics Fits...
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.
Initiative led by Khargonekar receives...
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.
New Grant Supports Research on RNA-Protein...
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.