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August 2020

NSF grants $18 million to UCI for materials 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.

NSF awards UCI-led team $3 million for epigenetics research A team led by Tim Downing has won a $3 million National Science Foundation grant for research that seeks to better understand the dynamic nature of the epigenome.

Chen wins NIH grant to develop intravascular imaging system The NIH National Heart Lung and Blood Institute has awarded Zhongping Chen a four-year $2.9 million grant to continue the development of a new imaging technology.

AghaKouchak awarded research prize Amir AghaKouchak will receive the 2020 Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize from the American Society of Civil Engineers for his notable contributions to the science of compound and inter-connected extreme weather events.

Olabisi selected for 2020 NAE symposium Ronke Olabisi, Samueli School assistant professor of biomedical engineering, is one of 85 of the nation’s brightest early career engineers selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) 26th annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering symposium.

Civil Engineering Grad Student Named NASA Future Investigator Vesta Afzali Gorooh has been awarded a Future Investigator in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology grant ($135,000) for her proposal to develop efficient near-real-time models to characterize cloud types and their behaviors.

Andres Adam receives AIAA award Andres Adam, mechanical and aerospace engineering graduate student and 2016 Balsells fellow, will be granted the 2020 Gordon C. Oates Air Breathing Propulsion Graduate Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Foundation.

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