News and Updates

We are thrilled to celebrate the outstanding achievements of our Seed PI, Prof. Maxx Arguilla: Selected as a 2025 IUPAC Young Observer. Maxx has been chosen by the U.S. National Committee as one of ten 2025 International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC)...

We are pleased to share that Héctor Pascual Herrero, a MRSEC Ph.D. student co-supervised by Regina Ragan and Ruqian Wu, has been awarded the Henry Samueli Endowed Fellowship. This prestigious fellowship recognizes his exceptional research contributions and academic...

We are proud to announce that Prof. Wilson Ho, CCAM Seed PI, has been awarded the Fourth Heinrich Rohrer Medal – Grand Medal. This prestigious honor recognizes researchers who have made distinguished contributions to nanoscience and nanotechnology through advancements...

We are delighted to announce that Seed PI Prof. Judit Romhanyi has been recognized as the Physical Sciences Dean’s Honoree for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education. This prestigious honor is awarded to faculty members who have demonstrated exceptional...

Stacy Copp Receives U.S. Department of EnergyEarly-Career Recognition On September 10, 2024, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the selection of 91 early-career scientists from across the country who will receive a combined $138 million in funding for...

Prestigious NSF PREM Grant Awarded On August 29, 2024, Cal State LA and UC Irvine's Samueli School of Engineering received a $1 million PREM grant from the NSF to enhance research and education in materials science. This three-year grant will fund the establishment of...

ollaborations and partnerships enable CCAM to enhance student career development and research innovations. ACRC Consortium and interactions with 35 corporate entities Pratt & Whitney Center of Excellence CCAM – National Laboratory collaborations UCI-LANL...

CCAM Graduate Student Received 2024 Microscopy & Microanalysis Student Scholar Award Huiming Guo, IRG-1 graduate student researcher in Prof. Will Bowman’s group, was recently awarded a 2024 Microscopy & Microanalysis (M&M) Student Scholar Award, for her...

CCAM Graduate Student Received 2024 NSF GRFP Award Kaitlyn Dold, a second year graduate student in the Arguilla group (MRSEC SEED 2024), received the prestigious 2024 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Award. As part of this fellowship, Kaitlyn will...

CCAM Faculty Member Received WPI Presidential Medal Award We are thrilled to share that CCAM Faculty Member, Diran Apelian, received Worcester Polytechnic Institute's (WPI) Presidential Medal Award on Friday, March 22, 2024. He was recognized for his incredible...

CCAM Investigator Elected to 2024 Class Fellow of Microscopy Society of America CCAM IRG-1 investigator Huolin Xin, Professor of Physics, has been recently elected to 2024 Class of Fellow, Microscopy Society of America (MSA), in recognition of “his original...

CCAM Investigator Recognized with TMS 2024 Bruce Chalmers Award On March 6, 2024, Professor Enrique J. Lavernia, CCAM IRG-1 investigator, was recognized with the 2024 Bruce Chalmers Award from the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) at the TMS 2024 Annual...

CCAM Investigator Awarded a Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Grant CCAM investigator, Stacy Copp, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, has received a Chan Zuckerberg Initiative grant and will lead a $1.85-million, four-year program to develop...

On January 23, 2024, UCI Center for Complex and Active Materials (CCAM), an NSF MRSEC, had an external scientific advisory board (ESAB) meeting at UCI.  The ESAB members attended the meeting in person and virtually via Zoom.  Prof. Xiaoqing Pan, CCAM’s...

Former CCAM postdoc appointed assistant professor Former CCAM IRG-1 postdoc, Dr. Xin Wang, has been newly appointed and started her position as an assistant professor in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at the University of Alabama. During her postdoctoral year...

JRF awarded for outstanding contributions to CCAM CCAM is committed to making breakthrough discoveries of new complex and active materials with novel functionalities to address urgent needs for applications in advanced manufacturing and biotechnologies and building a...

CCAM Faculty Honored As AAAS Fellow Professor Julie Schoenung, CCAM faculty and chair of materials science & engineering department at UCI, is honored as fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The American Association for the...

CCAM Faculty from UCI Chemistry Received NSF Career Awards The two CCAM faculty participants, Joe Patterson and Seu Sim, who are professors of UCI chemistry have received NSF Career Awards. Prof. Patterson’s CAREER Award application, entitled "Ring-Opening...

CCAM Student Attended Conference Across MRSEC-PREM Schools Conference Across MRSEC-PREM Schools (CAMPS), a student-led initiative sponsored by University of California-Santa Barbara and The Ohio State University MRSECs was held on October 13th and 14th at The...

CCAM Graduate Student Received a MRS Presentation Award Peter Mastracco, a graduate student working in Prof. Stacy Copp’s lab at UCI and a junior research fellow at CCAM, has received Best Student Presentation Award for Symposium DS01 (Simulation and Machine Learning...