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Team DUBS demonstrates its Dynamic Ultralight Beam Synth, which uses light to create sound, during yesterday’s E-SONIC 2: Engineering-Symphonic Orchestra New Instrument Competition. (Photo by Steve Zylius/UC Irvine) |
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Students take National Collegiate Cyber Defense Championship |
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A team of UC Irvine students won first place in the recent National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition, defeating opponents from the University of Virginia (a three-time national champion) and Dakota State University in the tournament finals. The NCCDC is the largest college-level cyber defense contest in the U.S., which featured several weeks of regional matches among cybersecurity student teams from nearly 200 colleges and universities. With this year’s success, UC Irvine is the first UC campus to win top national honors and take home the Alamo Cup. |
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Women’s track & field win first Big West title |
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The UC Irvine women's track & field team made history on Saturday, winning the program's first Big West Championship. The ’Eaters finished with 150.5 points to edge Cal Poly Pomona, who took second with 149 points. “It was a collective team effort for us from the coaching staff to the student-athletes to our administration,” said head coach Jeff Perkins. “This was our goal from the beginning of the year, and it came to fruition, so we’re obviously super excited.” |
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UCI Health CMIO discusses AI in healthcare |
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Dr. Deepti Pandita, chief medical information officer at UCI Health, recently spoke with the Becker’s Healthcare Podcast about the challenges and rewards of investing in artificial intelligence tools to improve patient care and clinical efficiency. While recognizing the value of digitizing healthcare, Pandita emphasized the importance of placing people at the center of new technology solutions. “I am a big, big proponent of keeping the human in the room,” she said. “Full automation is not the right solution. Keeping people cognizant of that is very important, in my view.” |
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Treating inflammatory diseases |
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A study from the lab of assistant professor Reginald McNulty at the Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences offers hope for those living with inflammatory diseases. Published in Trends in Pharmacological Sciences, the research focuses on developing a drug targeting the NLRP3 inflammasome – a protein complex which triggers inflammation in response to infection or tissue damage – which could pave the way for a new generation of anti-inflammatory therapies that are more precise and safer for long-term use. |
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UC awards $18 million to advance AI in science |
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In partnership with UC-managed national laboratories, the University of California has awarded $18 million in multicampus research grants to advance the frontiers of artificial intelligence in areas of technological innovation. Mohammad Qomi, UC Irvine associate professor of civil & environmental engineering and materials science & engineering, serves as principal investigator of one of the winning projects – “Geophysicist.AI: A Foundation Model to Address Multiphysics Challenges in Coupled Subsurface Processes.” The project will develop an AI model that could lead to safer, more efficient geothermal energy. |
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Will Bermudez, a redshirt-senior second baseman for the UC Irvine baseball team and psychological science major, is the recipient of the inaugural CalHOPE Courage Award. CalHOPE has co-presented Courage Awards monthly since February 2022 to student-athletes at California colleges and universities who have overcome stress, anxiety and mental trauma associated with personal hardships and adversity. “Everyone has different battles. Mine was epilepsy,” Bermudez said. “I want everyone to know that whatever they are going through will get better if they take it one day at a time and don’t let anything stop them from achieving their dreams.” |
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Kai Wehmeier named Fulbright-Tocqueville Distinguished Chair |
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Kai Wehmeier, professor of logic & philosophy of science, has been awarded a 2025 Fulbright-Tocqueville Distinguished Chair by the Franco-American Fulbright Commission and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. The honor includes a one-semester appointment at a French university and is awarded to up to two scholars each year in a competition that is open to all disciplines. Funded by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research and Fulbright, the program aims to reinforce collaborative research between France and the U.S. on topics of major significance for the future of both societies. |
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Los Angeles Times, May 17 Cited: Andrej Lupták, Chancellor’s Fellow and professor of pharmaceutical sciences, and Jennifer Prescher, professor of chemistry |
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Nikkei Asia, May 19 (Opinion) Author: Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Chancellor’s Professor of history |
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Phys.org, May 20 Cited: Franklin Dollar, professor of physics & astronomy |
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