Holmes Endowed Fellowship
Holmes Endowed Fellowship
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How science will suffer as US pulls out of Iran nuclear deal
“We were all full of enthusiasm when the agreement was signed, but unfortunately things went in the opposite direction,” says Soroosh Sorooshian, an Iranian–American hydrologist at the University of California, Irvine. He was one of hundreds of scientists who participated in the NASEM workshops. “God knows what happens next.”
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Human urine can turn into this useful material. See what is it and how do scientists make this science wonder happen
According to co-author David Kisailus from the University of California, Irvine, the process solves two problems. It removes urine from wastewater, helping the environment. It also creates a useful material. Hydroxyapatite made this way can be used in bone and dental implants. It may also serve other industries. These include archaeological restoration, biodegradable plastic alternatives, and construction materials.
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How to Steal DNA With Sound
Engineers at the University of California say they have demonstrated how easy it would be to snoop on biotech companies making synthetic DNA…. The researchers demonstrated their spying technique on the Applied Biosystems 3400 DNA Synthesizer, a widely used older model….
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Hotter summer highs means cities face increasingly deadly risks
“There are more than a billion people living in extreme poverty, with many of them living in megacities and large urban centres. These are people struggling to survive,” said Simon Michael Papalexiou, … [UCI] environmental engineer and the lead author of the study. … Amir AghaKouchak, a civil engineer and co-author of the study, said growing urban heat risk will require city authorities to think about new measures save lives - something some are already putting in place.
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How to Tell If Your Home Is in a Flood Zone
“Sometimes we like to look at these lines on maps and think that they are very strong determinants—like flooding won't happen here because I'm on the other side of this line, but that's not necessarily true,” says Brett Sanders, professor of civil and environmental engineering and urban planning and public policy at the University of California, Irvine. … “The reality is that there's a variety of gradual variation in risk across the land surface.” In fact, insurance claim data shows that many flood loss claims that are made to insurance companies often fall outside of map hazard zones, says
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How Living in Space Will Change the Way We Age
Indeed, cosmic radiation is perhaps the biggest worry for the body in space.
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Hyperloop competition
A group of MIT student engineers have won a competition to transform Space X co-founder Elon Musk’s transportation idea into reality. The group competed against 160 different universities from 16 countries to design a pod that would transport people ... speeds close to 700 miles per hour. The University of California, Irvine finished fifth in that competition. The top teams will build their pods and they’ll test them at the world's first Hyperloop test track being built adjacent to Space X headquarters in Hawthorne.
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Hyperloop U: At SpaceX, Elon Musk’s high-tech transportation competition may be launching loads of careers
“Every engineering student should do a project like this,” said Adora Tadros, an engineering student from UC Irvine working with about 60 teammates on the HyperXite team. … “What we’re doing is really pushing ourselves,” Tadros said. “To be as competitive as we are just proves how much you can accomplish when you organize and set your minds to something.”
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Homeless Intervention Services of Orange County ADU Expansion Project Grand Opening
After two years, Homeless Intervention Services of Orange County is breaking ground on its expansion program in Placentia. The units will house 8 to 10 additional youth ages 18 to 24 experiencing homelessness. UCI [Samueli School of Engineering, teamMADE] gifted and designed the units to fit in the nonprofit's backyard. Watch More
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How to build a Hyperloop
On a recent Saturday afternoon, a young aerospace engineer from Cairo University named Samar Abdel Fatta sat at the end of a long hallway of a Texas football stadium trying hard to contain her excitement. Amid a sea of matching university-branded T-shirts and cowboy boots, she was a bit of an anomaly: smart glasses, a neat black blazer, hijab.
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How to decarbonize California transportation by 2045
A team of transportation and policy experts from the University of California released a report today to the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) outlining policy options to significantly reduce transportation-related fossil fuel demand and emissions.
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Hydrology and Water Resources Systems
The Hydrology and Water Resources graduate program focuses on processes that control the transport and distribution of water in the environment and their influen -
Harvesting usable fuel from nuclear waste - and dealing with the last chemical troublemakers
My research at UC Irvine, as well as that of other labs around the world, focuses on new ways to deal with the last few troublemakers in the used nuclear fuel. We’re working on how to remove the remaining long-lived trans-uranic actinides with an efficiency high enough that the remaining nuclear waste’s isolation time would be decreased to 1,000 years or less. … Mikael Nilsson; associate professor of chemical engineering and materials science at University of California, Irvine.
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Human-caused climate change to blame for increase in California's wildfires, says study
"The 10 largest fires in California history have all occurred in the past two decades, and five of those have happened since 2020," said co-author Amir AghaKouchak, UCI professor of civil and environmental engineering. "Through our study, it has become clear that anthropogenic climate change is the major driver of this increase in wildfire damage." Read More