Feature Stories

Professor Shane Ardo’s lab is helping UCI Chemistry alumnus CX Xiang develop field-defining carbon capture technology.

Professor Prescher recalls her time as a Ph.D. student in the lab of Nobel Prize winner Professor Carolyn Bertozzi.

How a free pizza played a pivotal role in the life of a Native American physicist.

Cal-Bridge offers funding and mentors to promising undergrads seeking Ph.Ds in science.

Tavares recently applied for and won the prestigious American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellowship.

On Wednesday, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine announced the inaugural recipients of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communication, given by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in partnership with Schmidt Futures

Three questions with UCI astrophysicist James Bullock, recent chair of the James Webb Space Telescope Users Committee

Nobel laureate David MacMillan, Ph.D. ’96, (right) visits UCI in May, enabling a reunion with his Ph.D. advisor Larry Overman, UCI Distinguished Professor emeritus, and Vy Dong, UCI professor of chemistry, who was advised by MacMillan at UC Berkeley and the California Institute of Technology.

Astrophysics graduate student José Flores-Velázquez had a brilliant future ahead of him.

Mechanical thinning of California’s forests can reduce the severity of wildfires by eliminating built-up vegetation that fuels blazes.

Rather than an industrial solution to excess atmospheric carbon dioxide, a retired UCI physicist looks to nature.  

The Nowick Research Group in the UCI Department of Chemistry is working on new antibiotics that will help combat the growing antibiotic resistance crisis.