July 2021
Class of 2021 graduates with resounding resilience
UC Irvine held remote commencement ceremonies Saturday, June 12, with nearly 7,500 students and their families participating.
2021 Hall of Fame inductees honored for contributions to profession and alma mater
The Samueli School of Engineering has inducted three engineering alumni into the 2021 Hall of Fame.
Liu’s immune system research to benefit wound healing
The key to unlocking the mystery of how the immune system helps heal wounds appears to be in understanding the role of a protein called Piezo1, according to research by UC Irvine’s Wendy Liu.
NIH awards Lopour $1.8 million for research to improve epilepsy surgery
UC Irvine’s Beth Lopour, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, recently won a $1.8 million five-year R01 grant from the NIH National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke to develop and validate computerized tools to more accurately and objectively identify regions in the brain where epileptic seizures originate.
Two Samueli School of Engineering scientists win DOE Early Career Awards
The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science has awarded funding to two UC Irvine scientists under its DOE Early Career Research Program.
Elmalaki awarded NSF CRII grant for research on personalized and fair computing
Salma Elmalaki, UC Irvine electrical engineering and computer science assistant professor of teaching, has been awarded the National Science Foundation Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) grant.
UCI Chem-E-Car team Is only one in western region to cross finish line
In a true test of resilience, determination and ingenuity, Samueli School students navigated through adverse conditions this past year to design and build two entries for the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Chem-E-Car competition.

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