Feature Stories

Jun 29, 2021
A home experiment when Nowick was 8 helped catalyze the UCI chemistry professor’s career.
Jun 10, 2021
Ph.D. graduate Sierra Williams harnessing lightning bug light to illuminate diseases like cancer.
Jun 9, 2021
The ESS undergrad, who just graduated, is working to help native California plants come back from the edge.
May 19, 2021
LePort once built a particle detector from scratch. Now he’s developing gene therapies for age-related diseases.
May 19, 2021
Undergraduate writes book to show kids what’s possible when you learn something new.
May 18, 2021
Evolutionary theory, according to the UCI mathematician, emerges everywhere in the natural world.
May 17, 2021
From desert to gold mine — Frederick Reines was a larger-than-life physicist who did larger-than-life experiments.
Apr 30, 2021
Physical Sciences AISIESS program helped Native American students connect with their tribal lands on a new level.
Apr 21, 2021
When the pandemic struck, Youssefpour pivoted his teaching abruptly — and successfully — to the online realm.
Mar 31, 2021
W.M. Keck Carbon Cycle Accelerator Mass Spectrometer at UCI is helping the La Brea Tar Pits make sense of its fossils.
Mar 31, 2021
Department of Earth System Science helped spearhead NASA’s Operation IceBridge — the largest-ever airborne polar science mission, which ended in 2020 after 11 years.
Mar 2, 2021
An interview with UCI’s Professor Huolin Xin, who envisions a future where airplanes are completely electric.