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Lopez studies low-dimensional van der Waals materials in the lab of Professor Maxx Arguilla.

Scholars are honored for their efforts to advance science or its applications.

Frankenthal is a particle physicist who studies dark matter. 

Two-year SPHEREx mission will map the universe and look for life-supporting molecules in the Milky Way.

Undergraduate math students compete to solve integrals in tournament-style competition.

Recipients were nominated by colleagues and peers for their impact and accomplishments in fostering an inclusive culture at UC Irvine through their words, values, actions, and attitudes.

Martiny’s research focuses on the impact of climate change on the oceans.

The honor recognizes Nowick’s seminal contributions to biochemistry and chemical biology, elucidating fundamental interactions that govern protein structure, stability, folding and mechanisms.

The $488-million mission is set to map the sky in 102 colors of light, probing cosmic inflation, galactic ices, and the history of the universe’s first light.

The new family of antibiotics may one day help save thousands of lives each year.

Scientists have long overlooked white dwarfs as hosts for habitable exoplanets, assuming their lack of fusion would make life impossible. 

For years, astronomers have searched for habitable exoplanets around main-sequence stars similar to the Sun.