With a $50-million gift from the couple [Henry and Susan Samueli] that UC Irvine’s engineering school was named for, three new multidisciplinary research institutes will be established under its roof to better foster collaboration across engineering and three other sectors: public health, society and the environment. These institutes will run under the banner of Engineering+ and will be within the Henry Samueli School of Engineering …. Magnus Egerstedt, the Stacey Nicholas dean of engineering, said Engineering+ at UCI will be “a model for universities worldwide on how this can be structured.” Read More