News Briefs

Jun 22, 2021
Desert plants — famous for tolerance of torrid landscapes — are dying at an alarming rate due to the twin threats of even hotter temperatures and less rain, according to new research published this week.
Jun 21, 2021
Loss of vegetation cover is most stark in desert ecosystems already on edge of habitability.
Jun 18, 2021
Jun 17, 2021
The fellowship aims to bolster diversity in universities, and will support Long’s research on galaxies.
Jun 2, 2021
A chat between three different scientists on the similar methods they each use. 
Jun 2, 2021
Led by Professor Bob Pelayo, the grant will help instructors merge concepts from math and biology.  
May 31, 2021
The Physics & Astronomy grad student will use the support to study lithium-ion batteries.
May 26, 2021
The fellowship provides an annual stipend of $34,000 as well as tuition support.  
May 25, 2021
The UCI chemistry professor won a AAAS fellowship to advise the federal government on science policy.
May 18, 2021
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument collaboration launched a new era in cosmology today with a five-year endeavor to construct the largest three-dimensional map of the universe.
May 18, 2021
In 2018, astronomers announced that they had discovered an exoplanet orbiting Barnard’s star, our solar system’s second-closest stellar neighbor, but further analysis by an international group of researchers headed by a graduate student at the University of California, Irvine has cast doubt on the finding.
May 18, 2021
This month, climate research from the Randerson group made the headlines.