August 2021
Meet Magnus
Magnus Egerstedt took up his post as the new Stacey Nicholas Dean of Engineering at the UCI Samueli School in July. He comes to Irvine from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, where he had served as the Steve W. Chaddick Chair of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

New cell technology promising for battling disease
UC Irvine biomedical engineering researchers have developed a microfluidic device platform that could dramatically advance the way scientists separate single cells from tissue, helping them make progress in disease diagnosis and drug development.
Watershed moment for largescale wetlands construction
Wetlands constructed along waterways are the most cost-effective way to reduce nitrate and sediment loads in large streams and rivers, according to scientists at UC Irvine, University of Kansas, the University of Minnesota and other institutions.

Alum helps next generation take flight 
There are two very different types of jobs at Coca-Cola, Victoria Alegria Tracy told her son, John, as they visited the bottling plant in Los Angeles when he was a child: In one, you watch the bottles go past on an assembly line and verify the level of liquid in them – and get paid near-minimum wages.

CEE participates in Black Thriving Initiative 
The Samueli School’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) is part of the multidisciplinary team that won funding under the UCI Black Thriving Initiative Faculty Cluster Hiring Program.

National Academies selects MSE graduate student 
UC Irvine doctoral student Komal Syed has been selected as a 2021 Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellow by the National Academies.

NSF supports heart development research and student outreach 
Biomedical engineers from UC Irvine and Oregon Health and Science University are collaborating on research to better understand how blood flow and genetic processes influence early heart development.

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