News and Updates

On June 26, we were honored to host Professor David Srolovitz, Dean of Engineering and Chair of Materials Theory at the University of Hong Kong, as the distinguished speaker for our 2025 Distinguished Lecture on Materials Research. Prof. Srolovitz delivered an...

We’re proud to share that our graduate student I-Hsin Lin has been selected to receive the NSF Student and Postdoc Travel Award to attend the 22nd Annual Conference of Foundations of Nanoscience (FNANO) in 2025. This prestigious award supports outstanding early-career...

Penghui has received the Samueli School of Engineering’s Annual Award for Research Excellence in the Mid-Career category. This prestigious award honors faculty who have conducted exceptional fundamental or applied research or made a unique contribution to engineering...

Elizabeth M. Y. Lee, who is part of IRG-1 and SEED of CCAM, has received the National Science Foundation’s CAREER Award, one of the most prestigious honors for early-career faculty. The NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program supports early-career faculty with...

We’re thrilled to celebrate our graduate student Joni Spencer for receiving the Silver Award in the ACS Energy & Fuels Division Student Flash Talk Competition at the 2025 ACS Spring Meeting! This prestigious award honors outstanding student research in energy and...

We’re proud to share that our CCAM graduate and former JRF, Anna González Rosell, has been named a Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow, an esteemed recognition of her outstanding contributions to science and engineering. Director’s...

Wyeth has been honored with the Edward K.C. Lee Award, the highest distinction granted by UCI’s Department of Chemistry for graduate students. The award, which carries a $2,000 honorarium, recognizes exceptional productivity and impactful scientific breakthroughs....

CCAM Junior Research Fellows and Faculty have had continuous engagement with Alliance middle school students and tracked the effect on academic performance. Through sustained interactions we have been able to measure the impact of activities on California Science Test...

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...

Our MRSEC Shared Facilities house two state-of-the-art chromatography platforms that are enabling new insights into active soft matter systems: Waters UPLC H-Class Plus Binary SystemThis ultra-performance liquid chromatography (UPLC) system provides high-resolution...

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...

Developing future STEM leaders to translate fundamental research outcomes into high impact applications! A collaborative effort between CCAM Education and IAB To Develop JRF critical thinking and communication skills to  effectively translate scientific discoveries to...

Collaborations and partnerships enable CCAM to enhance student career development and research innovations. Annual meetings of CCAM Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) bring together CCAM JRFs, PI’s, and IAB members to discuss CCAM research achievements, future plans, and...

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...