Physics & Astronomy
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Monday, June 30, 2025National Science Foundation awards five additional Graduate Research Fellows for School of Physical Sciences
The fellows include graduate students from the Departments of Chemistry and Physics and Astronomy. -
Monday, May 19, 2025Two UC Irvine graduate students selected as DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research Fellows
The fellowship will allow the students to finish their doctoral research while working at Los Alamos National Lab and the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. -
Wednesday, May 7, 2025CalTeach program prepares undergraduate students for careers in math and science education
The program blends majors within the School of Physical Sciences with California teaching credentials to empower the next generation of math and science educators. -
Friday, April 25, 2025UC Irvine Students Named 2025 Barry Goldwater Scholars
Students Luke Xia (Physics and Mathematics) and Amanda Fang (Neurobiology) have been named the 2025 Barry Goldwater Scholars. -
Friday, April 25, 2025UC Irvine scientists among winners of Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
$3 million award recognizes research achievements at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. -
Thursday, April 24, 2025Physics students shine at national conferences
Conferences provide students opportunities to present their research, learn new skills at workshops and build their professional networks. -
Friday, April 18, 2025Three students receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Awards
The fellows are changing their fields and lifting up those around them. -
Friday, April 18, 2025Scientists say they’ve found signs of life on one exoplanet. There could be more than 10 billion others
The findings suggest often overlooked dying stars could support life-sustaining exoplanets. -
Thursday, April 17, 202510 billion Milky Way stars might have habitable exoplanets after all
Study uses computer model to predict existence of habitable zones in white dwarf star systems. -
Tuesday, April 15, 2025Science’s golden oldies: the decades-old research papers still heavily cited today
An analysis for Nature reveals the studies that appear most in the reference lists of current publications. -
Tuesday, April 1, 2025How Science Olympiad Shaped One Student’s Path to UC Irvine
An interview with UC Irvine Science Olympian Antonio Velasco.


