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Student Team Excels in Business Contest

Written on April 26, 2017.

April 26, 2017 – A multidisciplinary team of UC Irvine undergraduate students from the schools of engineering and arts took fourth place in an international business competition with their bicycle-powered, sustainable, closed-loop 3-D printing process. The ambitious prototype, originally developed as a research endeavor, recently took a “serious turn toward entrepreneurship,” according to Jesse Colin Jackson, arts assistant professor and the team’s adviser. Closed Loop Plastics...

UCI Named as Partner in New Clean Manufacturing Institute

Written on February 6, 2017.

$140 million consortium aims to improve competitiveness of US industryFeb. 6, 2017 – The University of California, Irvine, in collaboration with the Rochester Institute of Technology’s Golisano Institute for Sustainability, has launched the Reducing Embodied-Energy & Decreasing Emissions Institute to improve the efficiency and competitiveness of U.S. manufacturing. The Department of Energy is providing up to $70 million to fund the REMADE Institute through its Manufacturing...

Undergrad Wins Brower Youth Award

Written on September 6, 2016.

Sept. 6, 2016 – Samueli School undergraduate Will Amos has been named one of six national winners of the 2016 Brower Youth Award recognizing outstanding youth leaders making a difference in the environmental movement. Amos, an environmental engineering major, leads a UC Irvine team of art and engineering students creating a bicycle-powered, closed-loop 3-D printer/print recycling station. The project, partially funded by the Calit2/UROP-sponsored Multidisciplinary Design Program,...

Hydrological hat trick

Written on August 31, 2015.

UCI water and drought expert Amir AghaKouchak gets work published in three major journals within two weeks Brian Bell / UCI Here in drought-stricken California, lots of families have dinnertime discussions about water, but rarely do they have the same depth and insight as those happening in the AghaKouchak household. Amir AghaKouchak, assistant professor of civil & environmental engineering at the University of California, Irvine, is an expert on drought and water issues; and his wife,...

National Conference Opens Flow of Ideas on Drought

Written on April 22, 2015.

Top researchers, public officials and policymakers converge at UCI to discuss extreme water shortages and how to handle them Each year, California growers bet a good part of the farm that there’ll be enough water to produce a profitable harvest. Costly crop failure insurance can help hedge their bets, but must be purchased by strict deadlines – before it’s clear whether the state will face another year of withering drought. UCI engineers and others hope to reduce that age-old risk by helping...

Wastewater Recycling Actually Increases Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Written on September 29, 2011.

ClickGreen Staff, Click Green Wastewater recycling processes may generate more greenhouse gases than traditional water-treatment processes, a new study has found. Despite this finding, the report suggests there are good reasons to continue keep wastewater recycling among the water-resource tools for urban areas. Author Amy Townsend-Small, assistant professor of geology and geography at the University of Cincinnati, and a team of researchers from the University of California,...

Building an eco-friendly Empire

Written on May 12, 2011.

New student sustainable science team makes its mark in Western Riverside. Janet Wilson, University Communications Breakneck growth followed by a realestate crash just over the mountains from Orange Countyis giving UC Irvine doctoral students a chance to grapple with issues liketraffic, open space and energy consumption. Those elements are closely linked inthe Inland Empire, as Riverside and San Bernardino countiesare called. Almost half the 860,000 homes there are now worth less than...

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