Noted cosmologist will lead the school in their mission to discover scientific breakthroughs that provide solutions the most profound problems our age. Read more

Professors Eric Rignot, Tim Tait and Jenny Yang have been named recipients of the 2019 Academic Senate awards for research making the UCI School of Physical Sciences the only school on campus to win awards in the research category.

The FASER Collaboration, including UCI Professors David Casper and Jonathan Feng, postdocs, and students will look for new fundamental particles connected to dark matter. 

Glaciologists from the University of California, Irvine, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Netherlands’ Utrecht University additionally found that the accelerated melting caused global sea levels to rise more than half an inch during that time.

UCI physicist Huolin Xin worked with his colleagues at Brookhaven National Laboratory to come up with a new, more sustainable way of producing ammonia, which is also a key ingredient in crop fertilizers.