Cunxiang (Nicole) Mi wins WTS Orange County Scholarship

Cunxiang (Nicole) Mi, an undergraduate student in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), was awarded a Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS) Orange County Scholarship at the Annual Awards Gala on Tuesday, December 6, 2011.

Mi, one of 14 women to receive a WTS Scholarship from the Orange County chapter, will graduate in June 2012 with a B.S. in civil engineering with a minor in management. She plans on continuing at UC Irvine to earn her Master’s degree in transportation systems engineering and has been interning with the Santa Ana Traffic Management Center since June 2011.


Funds to create a live cell genomics laboratory

The Henry Samueli Endowed Chair H. Kumar Wickramasinghe, Ph.D., has been awarded a $1 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to develop new equipment for analysis of messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) levels in space and time within a living cell.

Wickramasinghe’s project entitled “Platform for Targeting and Quantifying Gene Expression Levels in Living Systems” describes the three-year plan to create the Single-Cell Analyzer (SCA) which will have applications in areas ranging from developmental and systems biology to personalized medicine, cancer diagnosis and stem cell research.


Payam Heydari spoke about millimeter-wave imaging systems in silicon

Professor Payam Heydari, Ph.D., Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), presented an “Invited Speech” at the 2011 TowerJazz Global Symposium, the sixth annual technology conference held by TowerJazz in Newport Beach, Calif., last November. The Symposium is a two-day event with presentations on the advanced process technologies and design enablement capabilities for many business applications; and for academic researchers to present important studies that use TowerJazz’s silicon-germanium(SiGe) technology.


Stanley B. Grant article featured on cover

Professor Stanley B. Grant, Ph.D., Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, had his article entitled “Crossing Turbulent Boundaries: Interfacial Flux in Environmental Flows” featured on the cover of the September 1, 2011 issue of Environmental Science & Technology.

In the article, Grant looks at the current understanding of turbulent boundary layer flows, with particular focus on coherent turbulence and its impact on mass transport across the sediment-water interface in marine and freshwater systems.


Students recognized for academic achievement in science and engineering

The Orange County Chapter of the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation, Inc. has named four students from The Henry Samueli School of Engineering as ARCS Scholars for the 2011-2012 academic year.

The ARCS® Foundation, Inc. is a national volunteer organization of women philanthropists who are dedicated to “Advancing Science in America.” It is a not-for-profit corporation founded in 1958 dedicated to helping outstanding U.S. graduate and undergraduate students by providing scholarship awards in natural sciences, medicine, engineering and information and computer science. 


Project is hailed for successful application of design-build approach

The team behind construction of UC Irvine’s Engineering Hall has won the esteemed 2011 Design-Build Institute of America award for design excellence in educational facilities, which honors projects in which all services are provided under one contract with a single point of responsibility.

“This was truly a team effort,” said campus architect Rebekah Gladson, associate vice chancellor for design & construction services. “UCI took the lead in the strategic vision and architectural utilization of the plan from inception to completion. The design-build concept brought huge savings in both cost and energy usage."

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