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Community-facing project, funded by SSRC, will focus on accuracy, use and impacts of AI on residents’ civic understanding, engagement and inclusion

UCI-led Team Developing Evaluation Protocols,...

June 5, 2026

From Ask Sammy in Santa Clarita to Rivy, the City of Riverside's online chatbot, AI is increasingly being tapped to deliver public service information to residents across Southern California cities. But what happens when deployment of this technology outpaces evaluations of its accuracy, use and impacts?

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Three Engineering Faculty and a Student Project

Engineering Research Featured on Lab...

June 2, 2026

Fabrics that change transparency like squid skin, methalox rockets, mini gyroscopes and neuroelectronics for the brain are the latest topics featured in UC Irvine Samueli School of Engineering's podcast The Lab Beat. This captivating podcast takes you right into the labs of engineering researchers as award-winning audio journalist Natalie Tso offers 5-8 minute audio portraits.

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Clockwise, from top left, are Malak Gamal El-Din, Elias Heanue, Scott Duy Kiehn, Cameron Schmitt, Madeleine Marston and Lanie Le.

Six Engineering Graduate Students Named...

June 2, 2026

Six UC Irvine Samueli School students have received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) award this year. The NSF GRFP recognizes graduate students who are continuing research-based master's and doctoral degrees in STEM fields, and who have shown potential to make impactful contributions to the field.

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The 2026 Beall Butterworth Competition featured UC Irvine students from Engineering and the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences working in teams to find innovative solutions to real-world problems.

Students Showcase Innovation at 2026...

June 1, 2026

Innovation and entrepreneurship were on display at the 2026 Beall Butterworth Competition, a six-month contest that culminated in an on-campus Demo Day and awards ceremony on May 15. While the competition is open to all UC Irvine students, teams must be composed of at least one student from the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS) in the Butterworth Product Development category and one engineering student in the Beall Student Design category.

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The 2026 UC Irvine Blue Skies team from left: mechanical engineering junior Jerry Chen, mechanical and aerospace engineering Ph.D. student Vanessa Chung, mechanical engineering senior Addison Rushing, and aerospace engineering senior Bryce Mankovsky.

UC Irvine Students Win NASA Blue Skies...

June 1, 2026

A team of UC Irvine students won honors from NASA for creating an innovative system for aircraft maintenance in the NASA’s Gateway to Blue Skies Competition. The team won the Best Infographic Award for their excellent presentation and were one of eight national finalists who received $9,000 to research their solution for aircraft maintenance.

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Mechanical and aerospace engineering senior Sunny Lin in front of Engineering Hall at UC Irvine.

“Leave Your Comfort Zone,” Says...

May 30, 2026

“I used to be a really quiet person,” said UCI mechanical and aerospace engineering senior Sunny Lin. “I couldn't even order food by myself because I was nervous.”

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The study made the April 30, 2026 issue of Science

Researchers Uncover Hidden Rules Governing...

May 28, 2026

River deltas are among the most vital, densely populated, and severely threatened landscapes on Earth. An international team of scientists, including many affiliated with UC Irvine, has published a breakthrough study in the journal Science decoding the mathematical rules underlying the structure of delta channel networks and their ability to build land.

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