February 2021
UCI researchers: climate change will alter the position of the Earth’s tropical rain belt
Future climate change will cause a regionally uneven shifting of the tropical rain belt – a narrow band of heavy precipitation near the equator – according to researchers at UC Irvine and other institutions.
UCI joins national manufacturing cybersecurity collaboration
The California Institute for Telecommunications & Information Technology is joining the Cybersecurity Manufacturing Innovation Institute, a national organization focused on improving cybersecurity and energy efficiency in American manufacturing.
UCI scientists measure local vibrational modes at individual crystalline faults
Often admired for their flawless appearance to the naked eye, crystals can have defects at the nanometer scale, and these imperfections may affect the thermal and heat transport properties of crystalline materials used in a variety of high-technology devices.
Naeim wins Housner Medal
The Earthquake Engineering Research institute (EERI) has awarded its 2021 George Housner Medal to Farzad Naeim, UC Irvine adjunct professor of civil and environmental engineering.
IEEE recognizes Jafarkhani with 2020 award
The Samueli School’s Hamid Jafarkhani has received the 2020 IEEE Wireless Communications Technical Committee Recognition Award.
Watershed research attracts national notice
In 2017, UC Irvine graduate student Matthew Brand was working toward his doctorate in civil and environmental engineering when he attended the California Water Boards’ Water Data Science Symposium in Sacramento. 
MSE grad student takes first in elevator pitch contest
Komal Syed, a doctoral student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, won first place in the sixth annual elevator pitch competition sponsored by UC Irvine’s Graduate Professional Success in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (GPS-STEM) program.

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