Congrats to the UCI Rocket Project for placing first at the 2025 International Rocket Engineering Competition for the 10,000 feet Student Researched And Designed (SRAD) category! They made every part of the winning rocket!🚀

Dion Khodagholy is working with the school of medicine to identify a potential new treatment for preventing epilepsy progression and preserving long-term memory. 👍

Congratulations to Pim Oomen and Xizheng Wang for being named Hellman Fellows! Oomen's research is on the impact of sex hormones on the heart while Wang is researching the accelerated discovery and electrified manufacturing of high entropy alloys (HEAs).

High School students learn about environmental robots and more at the UCI-Crystal Cove Environmental Engineering Summer Institute. 👍 @oai_uci.

Alon Gorodetsky's lab has discovered cell structures that squids use to change color which could be used to make adaptable camouflage, smart textiles and thermal-management skins. 👍

Congratulations to Quoc-Viet Dang for being selected as a Fulbright Scholar to teach and conduct research at Vietnam National University in Hanoi next year!

UCI researchers have seen successful preclinical tests of the Iris Valve, a replacement heart valve for young children with congenital cardiac defects that grows with the size of their hearts. 👍 More:

🎉 Read all about the Class of 2025 Commencement. Congratulations to all graduates! 🧑‍🎓👩‍🎓.

🏝️ Dean Magnus Egerstedt and Efrain Mendez Flores talk about the environmental robot RaccoonBot they are bringing to monitor the beach at Crystal Cove State Park. Christopher Olivares shares about the UCI-Crystal Cove Environmental Engineering Summer Institute. 👍

David Kisalius has engineered a yeast platform that converts urine into hydroxyapatite, a high-value, biocompatible substance for use in dental and bone implants. 👍

UC Irvine gave birth to First Element Fuel the world’s most extensive hydrogen fueling network. Read why that matters more now than ever: #hydrogen #fuelcell

UC Irvine-born startup Enevate is solving EVs’ biggest issues - faster charging and cold temperature charge acceptance👍

🎉In-flight entertainment technology and beach solutions were the big winners at the Master of Engineering awards. 18 student teams worked with industry to solve real-world problems. Read more:

🎉Congratulations to the faculty who have been honored for outstanding contributions to their fields at the school's faculty awards! More at

🎉Cheers to the Class of ’25!🧑‍🎓👏👏. 📸 Pencilbox Events/UC Irvine Student Affairs

It took 25 years for UCI biomedical engineering professor Tibor Juhaz to perfect and launch ViaLase, a company built around a femtosecond laser system that treats glaucoma. This new cutting-edge treatment will launch in Europe this summer! 👍

🎉Congratulations Class of 2025!🧑‍🎓🤘We're proud of you!💙💛 .(Photos: Pencilbox Events/UC Irvine Student Affairs)

Congratulations to Elizabeth Lee for winning the highly prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER award for her project to design a more sustainable process for chemical recycling of plastics.

Argentina honors UCI Distinguished Professor Emeritus Enrico Gratton with the 2024 LELOIR Award for his advancement of cutting-edge microscopy in Argentina. 👏 More at

Future winter storms will have more rain in less time and in more concentrated areas, UCI researchers have found. More at: