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Four early career faculty receive UC research awards, clockwise from top left, Ty Christoff-Tempesta, Matthew Dean, Christopher Ignacio Olivares Martinez and Fei Xia.

Four Engineers Recognized with UC Early...

June 24, 2026

The University of California has selected six UC Irvine faculty as recipients of the inaugural Early Career Faculty Research Excellence Awards; four are from the UCI Samueli School of Engineering. The competitive program recognizes outstanding early career scholars whose innovative research demonstrates exceptional promise and impact.

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Team BrickCycle wins first place in the Social Enterprise/Sustainability Category.

Engineering Students Win Big at 2026...

June 22, 2026

Engineering students served on many of the winning teams at the annual Stella Zhang New Venture Competition, which is hosted by the UC Irvine Paul Merage School of Business's Beall Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. The event highlights UCI students' creativity and business skills as they are asked to launch a startup and build a team in just seven months.

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Anteater engineers gather at the Bren Event Center on June 15 to celebrate their commencement.

UC Irvine Engineering Class of 2026...

June 22, 2026

UC Irvine Samueli School of Engineering hosted its commencement ceremony on June 15 at the Bren Events Center, which was packed with family and supporters ready to celebrate the recent graduates. The school expects to award 73 doctorates, 294 master's degrees and 934 bachelor's degrees for the 2026 academic year.

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Ph.D. graduate Jad Al Aaraj (right) demonstrates technology he created that enables people to opt out of visual tracking by public cameras.

UC Irvine Schools of Engineering and...

June 15, 2026

In a world where phones and smart glasses can capture anyone's image, students at the Engineering+ Society Institute on AI are creating ways to protect personal privacy. These inventions and the risks of AI were on display at an exhibit hosted by the Samueli School of Engineering and Claire Trevor School of the Arts at UC Irvine.

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UCI biomedical engineering graduate Christopher Tan

Q&A: Chancellor’s Award Winner Christopher...

June 15, 2026

Christopher Tan just graduated summa cum laude with a degree in biomedical engineering-premed from UC Irvine. He was president of the award-winning student chapter of the Biomedical Engineering Society, a researcher in four labs and founder of the Neovi Medical startup, which won awards in the BioEngine and Beall Butterworth Competitions for its invention NeoFusion.

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UCI graduate student Manulya Gunasekera presents her proposal to San Clemente city officials at Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens.

UC Irvine Students Present Wastewater...

June 10, 2026

UC Irvine graduate students presented adaptation alternatives for San Clemente's wastewater conveyance system to San Clemente Mayor Rick Loeffler and other city officials at an event last month held at the city's Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens. A wastewater pipeline running along the coast could be impacted by cliff failures and coastal erosion in future decades, especially as sea level rises and the shoreline retreats.

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Faculty Honored at Spring Awards

Engineering Faculty Honored at Spring...

June 5, 2026

UC Irvine Samueli School of Engineering Interim Dean Faryar Jabbari bestowed awards to outstanding faculty at the school's annual awards for the 2025-2026 academic year. The following faculty were honored for their distinguished research, teaching and service to the school.

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