Awards

Mar 25, 2021
Mercado’s award ceremony will also honor his slain friend and fellow astrophysicist, José Flores Velázquez.
Mar 19, 2021
Professor Sanchez-Yamagishi will use the award to explore materials at atomic scales — and to make room for surprises, too.
Feb 12, 2021
The award will give her and her collaborators $1.5 million dollars over three years to use “biological flashlights” to illuminate molecules.
Jan 25, 2021
The professors won awards for their work in research, teaching, and in making the world a better place.
Dec 7, 2020
UCI physicists have designed and built a new particle detector called FASER that could lift the veil on one of the universe’s most enduring mysteries.
Nov 25, 2020
Distinction honors careers crackling with trailblazing research.
Nov 25, 2020
They research everything from the unknown corners of the universe to fungi, and what they’ve discovered is in the top one percent of the world’s cited research.
Oct 21, 2020
The School of Physical Sciences is proud to launch a new program aimed at honoring students who have enabled the success of women in the natural sciences. The Women in Natural Sciences (WiNS)…
Aug 12, 2020
They’re alive, they’re inside you, and there are trillions of them. But what they are, exactly, is still very much a mystery. “They” are bacteria that have no genetic relation to you, but which call…
Jul 31, 2020
The awards honor efforts in research, teaching, and in making the world a better place to live.
Jul 28, 2020
On July 15, Professor Don Blake got a letter letting him know that the UC Irvine Academic Senate had awarded him their Better World Award, which recognizes the impact...
Jul 14, 2020
Irvine, Calif. – The National Science Foundation has awarded $18 million to the University of California, Irvine in support of a new materials research science and engineering center. UCI is one of three MRSECs newly funded by the NSF in 2020, joining 16 other existing centers at leading research institutions in the United States.