When entomologists first told Jesus Rivera that a nondescript black beetle could survive being run over by a car, he was skeptical. Then he tried it, and the insect walked away unscathed (as you can see for yourself in the video below). Now, this newly minted Ph.D. at the University of California, Irvine, has discovered the secret to this bug’s success. Read More

Most recently, we covered a prototype battery-free wearable that measures vital signs in real-time developed by researchers at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). Read More

We’d like to introduce to a pretty impressive young man. He graduated high school in May, and college in June, at the age of 15. Tjah'Mari DuCloux ... attended Riverside City College and just graduated with three ... associate degrees. He says he owes a lot of his success to mom. ... Up next, UC Irvine, to major in mechanical engineering. Tjah'Mari tells us, what he really wants to do is be an entrepreneur.

Karina Khadarian, founder and CEO of Engineer Armenia, was just two years into college as a chemical engineering undergraduate when she decided that she had to do something to impact change in the homeland. … She developed a team at the University of California, Irvine, starting with 19 volunteers, most of whom were not of Armenian descent and had no relationship with Armenia. As a student volunteer in other engineering organizations on campus, she began by networking with and recruiting UCI students.