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Herdeline Ann “Digs” Ardoña (left), assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, and Seunghyun Sim, assistant professor of chemistry, are among 126 early-career scientists to be named 2026 Sloan Research Fellows by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Names 2 UC...

March 2, 2026

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has named two University of California, Irvine faculty members as 2026 Sloan Research Fellows. Herdeline Ann “Digs” Ardoña, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, and Seunghyun Sim, assistant professor of chemistry, are among 126 early-career researchers to be recognized by the foundation this year.

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Critical elements

Engineering + Sustainability Institute...

March 2, 2026

UCI Samueli School of Engineering Interim Dean Faryar Jabarri has announced that the new Engineering+ Sustainability Institute will focus on the sustainable processing of critical materials. The institute will reinvent the materials supply chain, closing the loop between sourcing, production, utilization and recycling.

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Distinguished Professor of electrical engineering and computer science Jean-Luc Gaudiot

Jean-Luc Gaudiot Honored with the IEEE...

February 23, 2026

Jean-Luc Gaudiot, UC Irvine Distinguished Professor of electrical engineering and computer science, was honored with the Richard E. Merwin Award for Distinguished Service from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society. Named after Merwin, a pioneer in the field of digital computer engineering, the service award recognizes those who contribute outstanding service to the profession, the IEEE and the IEEE Computer Society.

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a heart

Can Wearable Tech Finally Get Blood...

February 19, 2026

Blood pressure is one of the most important measurements in healthcare. Yet how we track it hasn’t changed much in more than a century.

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Is This the Breakthrough Drug Development...

February 18, 2026

Modern drug discovery is better than it’s ever been. We can sequence genomes in hours, predict how proteins behave, and design molecules with increasing precision.

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NSF CAREER Institute workshop participants at UC Irvine

From Concept to CAREER Award

February 17, 2026

Funding from the National Science Foundation plays an essential role at UC Irvine in advancing critical research spanning topics from brain health and AI to wildfire mitigation, water quality and shifting social dynamics. Securing this highly competitive funding, however, requires navigating a complex pathway – one that can be daunting for early career faculty members working to bring new research ideas from concept to award.

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UCI professor of biomedical engineering Anya Grosberg

Grosberg Creates Way to Research Sex-based...

February 13, 2026

Anna Grosberg, UCI professor of biomedical engineering, and Ph.D. student Mary Tran have made the first characterization of the difference between male and female neonatal rat ventricular myocytes (NRVMs) in vitro tissues. Their work was just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) and offers a way to study sex-based variations in cardiac tissues and function.

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