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Congratulations to UCI Recipients of the University of California Early Career Faculty Research Excellence Awards
Congratulations to UCI Recipients of the University of California Early Career Faculty Research Excellence Awards
RSVP for the Newkirk Faculty Fellows Symposium
RSVP for the Newkirk Faculty Fellows Symposium
Newkirk Faculty Fellows Symposium "Voices of Impact: Faculty Stories of Research for the Public Good" Friday, May 1st, 2026 9 am to 1:30 pm Beckman Center, Huntington Room 100 E Academy Way Irvine, CA 92617 The symposium will highlight the important research of the Newkirk Faculty Fellows ending with world cafe style discussion with guests. Continental breakfast will be served at 8:30am and lunch will be served at 12 pm. Seats are limited. Please RSVP by April 27th, 2026. If you have any other questions or concerns, please email alexanom@uci.edu
Engineering+ Sustainability Institute to Focus on Critical Materials
Engineering+ Sustainability Institute to Focus on Critical Materials
Xeno-nucleic acids support formation of Ag(I)-mediated duplexes and silver nanoclusters
Xeno-nucleic acids support formation of Ag(I)-mediated duplexes and silver nanoclusters
UC CAMEO: Stacy Copp on AI + Chemical and Material Innovations
UC CAMEO: Stacy Copp on AI + Chemical and Material Innovations
Unlocking Two‐Photon Chiral Signatures in DNA‐Stabilized Silver Nanoclusters: Two‐Photon Circular Dichroism and Circularly Polarized Luminescence
Unlocking Two‐Photon Chiral Signatures in DNA‐Stabilized Silver Nanoclusters: Two‐Photon Circular Dichroism and Circularly Polarized Luminescence
Listen to the power of light and color | The Lab Beat ft. Professor Stacy Copp
Listen to the power of light and color | The Lab Beat ft. Professor Stacy Copp
Diran Apelian Upcycles Scrap Metal for Cars and Aerospace | Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine
Diran Apelian Upcycles Scrap Metal for Cars and Aerospace | Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine
UC Irvine Materials Science and Engineering Program Climbs to Top 30 in U.S. News Rankings
UC Irvine Materials Science and Engineering Program Climbs to Top 30 in U.S. News Rankings
The Lab Beat Podcast - From Flush to Future | Free Listening on Podbean App
The Lab Beat Podcast - From Flush to Future | Free Listening on Podbean App
UC Irvine Researchers Receive $2 million grant for Next-Generation Propulsion Systems
UC Irvine Researchers Receive $2 million grant for Next-Generation Propulsion Systems
Esther Hessong recognized by DTEI for excellence in teaching
Esther Hessong recognized by DTEI for excellence in teaching
UC Irvine Scientist Takes a Lesson from Ultrahard, Wear-resistant Mollusk Teeth | Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine
UC Irvine Scientist Takes a Lesson from Ultrahard, Wear-resistant Mollusk Teeth | Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine
Three Engineering Graduate Students Named NSF Research Fellows | Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine
Three Engineering Graduate Students Named NSF Research Fellows | Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine
Researchers Create Method for Converting Urine into High-Value Bio-Implant Material | Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine
Researchers Create Method for Converting Urine into High-Value Bio-Implant Material | Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine
Professor Elizabeth Lee Receives NSF CAREER Award
Professor Elizabeth Lee Receives NSF CAREER Award
Find award details and explore award abstracts and publications.
UC Irvine Researchers Challenge Model Governing Deformation of Materials Under Stress
UC Irvine Researchers Challenge Model Governing Deformation of Materials Under Stress
Esther Hessong selected to attend Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
Esther Hessong selected to attend Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
The University of California today (April 24) announced the 2025 cohort of UC President’s Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings Fellows, 42 outstanding young scientists and economists from across the UC system who will join Nobel laureates from around the world at two renowned scholarly gatherings in Lindau, Germany.
Twelve Senior Projects Win Dean's Choice Awards at Annual Design Review
Twelve Senior Projects Win Dean's Choice Awards at Annual Design Review
UC Irvine and Pratt & Whitney Establish Materials Science Center of Excellence
UC Irvine and Pratt & Whitney Establish Materials Science Center of Excellence
10 Qs for Apple Intern Ana Diaz-Santos | Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine
10 Qs for Apple Intern Ana Diaz-Santos | Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine
Q&A: Top Green Tech Entrepreneur Diran Apelian | Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine
Q&A: Top Green Tech Entrepreneur Diran Apelian | Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine
UC Irvine Researchers Discover Atomic-level Mechanism in Polycrystalline Materials | Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine
UC Irvine Researchers Discover Atomic-level Mechanism in Polycrystalline Materials | Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine
Copp Named NIH Director’s New Innovator for Advances in Nanomaterials Research | Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine
Copp Named NIH Director’s New Innovator for Advances in Nanomaterials Research | Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine
DEVCOM ARL HBCU/MI Early Career Program – DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory
DEVCOM ARL HBCU/MI Early Career Program – DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory
U.S. Department of Energy Awards $138 Million to 91 Early Career Scientists
U.S. Department of Energy Awards $138 Million to 91 Early Career Scientists
Cal State LA and UC Irvine Awarded Prestigious NSF PREM Grant | Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine
Cal State LA and UC Irvine Awarded Prestigious NSF PREM Grant | Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine
TikTok - Make Your Day https://www.tiktok.com/@materia.../video/7405793427641683230 #gradstudent #uciengineering #mse@uci #science #lipgloss #sciencemagic #massspectrometry
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Faculty Lauded for Teaching, Research, Innovation and Service Excellence | Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine
Faculty Lauded for Teaching, Research, Innovation and Service Excellence | Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine
This Alloy is Kinky
This Alloy is Kinky
CCAM Graduate Student Received 2024 Microscopy & Microanalysis Student Scholar Award – CCAM
CCAM Graduate Student Received 2024 Microscopy & Microanalysis Student Scholar Award – CCAM
Apelian Recognized with Presidential Medal from Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Apelian Recognized with Presidential Medal from Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Stacy Copp: Frontiers of Scientific Imaging Technology Projects
Stacy Copp: Frontiers of Scientific Imaging Technology Projects
Copp Lab Engineers Stronger Programmable DNA Nanostructures | Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine
Copp Lab Engineers Stronger Programmable DNA Nanostructures | Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine
Huiming Guo: Designing nanostructure exsolution-self-assembly in a complex concentrated oxide
Huiming Guo: Designing nanostructure exsolution-self-assembly in a complex concentrated oxide
Designing nanostructure exsolution-self-assembly in a complex concentrated oxide
Designing nanostructure exsolution-self-assembly in a complex concentrated oxide
Exploring Metamaterials for Aircraft Surface Advances
Exploring Metamaterials for Aircraft Surface Advances
Three Engineering Faculty Named Highly Cited Researchers | Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine
Three Engineering Faculty Named Highly Cited Researchers | Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine
Chemical Science Feature: Electron count and ligand composition influence the optical and chiroptical signatures of far-red and NIR-emissive DNA-stabilized silver nanoclusters
Chemical Science Feature: Electron count and ligand composition influence the optical and chiroptical signatures of far-red and NIR-emissive DNA-stabilized silver nanoclusters
Four UCI Engineering Graduate Students Receive Fellowships with Los Alamos National Laboratory | The Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine
Four UCI Engineering Graduate Students Receive Fellowships with Los Alamos National Laboratory | The Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine
35+1 challenges in materials science being tackled by PIs under 35(ish) in 2023
35+1 challenges in materials science being tackled by PIs under 35(ish) in 2023
MSE Grad Student Awarded Postgraduate Abroad Fellowship | The Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine
MSE Grad Student Awarded Postgraduate Abroad Fellowship | The Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine
Discovery Through Mentorship
Discovery Through Mentorship
Stacy Copp Selected to Participate in NAE Symposium | The Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine
Stacy Copp Selected to Participate in NAE Symposium | The Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine
Egerstedt Presents 2023 Faculty Awards
Egerstedt Presents 2023 Faculty Awards
Cultivating excellence in Armenian studies
Cultivating excellence in Armenian studies
Residual stress mitigation in directed energy deposition
Residual stress mitigation in directed energy deposition
‘Global importance’ of UCI researchers honored
‘Global importance’ of UCI researchers honored
ASM Los Angeles Chapter: March 2023 Event RSVP
ASM Los Angeles Chapter: March 2023 Event RSVP
Highlighting Women in Engineering
Highlighting Women in Engineering
Ceramics processing—are we using the correct sintering and creep models?
Ceramics processing—are we using the correct sintering and creep models?
UC Irvine Researchers Create E. Coli-based Water Monitoring Technology
UC Irvine Researchers Create E. Coli-based Water Monitoring Technology
American Association for the Advancement of Science Honors Six UC Irvine Researchers | The Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine
American Association for the Advancement of Science Honors Six UC Irvine Researchers | The Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine
MSE Anti-Racism Work Group | The Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine
MSE Anti-Racism Work Group | The Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine
Deformation behavior of cell walls in an additively manufactured hybrid metallic foam
Deformation behavior of cell walls in an additively manufactured hybrid metallic foam
Microbial Miners Could Help Humans Colonize the Moon and Mars | The Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine
Microbial Miners Could Help Humans Colonize the Moon and Mars | The Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine
Local hardening and asymmetric twin growth by twin-twin interactions in a Mg alloy
Local hardening and asymmetric twin growth by twin-twin interactions in a Mg alloy
Influence of co-deposition strategy on the mechanical behavior of additively manufactured functionally integrated materials
Influence of co-deposition strategy on the mechanical behavior of additively manufactured functionally integrated materials
Pan’s Research Demonstrates Exceptional Influence | The Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine
Pan’s Research Demonstrates Exceptional Influence | The Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine
UCI Samueli School Becomes Member of U.S. Army Automotive Research Center | The Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine
UCI Samueli School Becomes Member of U.S. Army Automotive Research Center | The Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine
Dr. Xin Wang: High entropy oxide exhibits grain size dependent room temperature deformation
Dr. Xin Wang: High entropy oxide exhibits grain size dependent room temperature deformation
Nucleation and growth behavior of multicomponent secondary phases in entropy-stabilized oxides - Journal of Materials Research
Nucleation and growth behavior of multicomponent secondary phases in entropy-stabilized oxides - Journal of Materials Research
UCI Faculty Partner with Peers in Mexico on Collaborative Research Projects | The Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine
UCI Faculty Partner with Peers in Mexico on Collaborative Research Projects | The Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine
Lavernia and Apelian Recognized with 2021 ASM Awards | The Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine
Lavernia and Apelian Recognized with 2021 ASM Awards | The Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine
EPD Symposium in Honor of Diran Apelian
EPD Symposium in Honor of Diran Apelian
Morphological evolution in nanostructured secondary phases in entropy stabilized oxides
Morphological evolution in nanostructured secondary phases in entropy stabilized oxides
2nd Place Winners of the 2022 Spectroscopy Application Challenge: Spectroscopy Used for Advances in Biomedical Imaging
2nd Place Winners of the 2022 Spectroscopy Application Challenge: Spectroscopy Used for Advances in Biomedical Imaging
Chemistry-Informed Machine Learning Enables Discovery of DNA-Stabilized Silver Nanoclusters with Near-Infrared Fluorescence
Chemistry-Informed Machine Learning Enables Discovery of DNA-Stabilized Silver Nanoclusters with Near-Infrared Fluorescence
Biobased Materials for Sustainable Printed Circuit Boards
Biobased Materials for Sustainable Printed Circuit Boards
A Treasure Hunt for Microbes in Chile’s Atacama Desert
A Treasure Hunt for Microbes in Chile’s Atacama Desert
DNA Stabilizes Eight-Electron Superatom Silver Nanoclusters with Broadband Downconversion and Microsecond-Lived Luminescence
DNA Stabilizes Eight-Electron Superatom Silver Nanoclusters with Broadband Downconversion and Microsecond-Lived Luminescence
UCI Engineers Push Nanostructure Properties to New Extremes
UCI Engineers Push Nanostructure Properties to New Extremes
Reduction of Calcified Plaque Volume in Ex Vivo Pericardial Tissue with Nanobubbles
Reduction of Calcified Plaque Volume in Ex Vivo Pericardial Tissue with Nanobubbles
Advancing chemical hazard assessment with decision analysis: A case study on lithium-ion and redox flow batteries used for energy storage
Advancing chemical hazard assessment with decision analysis: A case study on lithium-ion and redox flow batteries used for energy storage
Four Undergraduate Engineering Students Win Writing Contest
Four Undergraduate Engineering Students Win Writing Contest
ACRC in Modern Casting
ACRC in Modern Casting
Professor Schoenung is elected to the National Academy of Engineering
Professor Schoenung is elected to the National Academy of Engineering
Ultrahard Chiton Teeth Discovery Offers Clues to Next-generation Advanced Materials
Ultrahard Chiton Teeth Discovery Offers Clues to Next-generation Advanced Materials
Complex pH-Dependent Interactions between Weak Polyelectrolyte Block Copolymer Micelles and Molecular Fluorophores
Complex pH-Dependent Interactions between Weak Polyelectrolyte Block Copolymer Micelles and Molecular Fluorophores
Samueli Endowed Fellowship Awarded to Six Graduate Students
Samueli Endowed Fellowship Awarded to Six Graduate Students
Research on Imperfections and Exsolution
Research on Imperfections and Exsolution
Saphores and Schoenung Receive REMADE Awards for Circular Economy Research
Saphores and Schoenung Receive REMADE Awards for Circular Economy Research
"Growth of nanoporous high-entropy oxide thin films by pulsed laser deposition'"
"Growth of nanoporous high-entropy oxide thin films by pulsed laser deposition'"
"Visualization and validation of twin nucleation and early-stage growth in magnesium"
"Visualization and validation of twin nucleation and early-stage growth in magnesium"
Watch Enrique Lavernia's Oral History Series
Watch Enrique Lavernia's Oral History Series
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