National Fuel Cell Research Center

Hydrogen Storage tanks

The goal of the NFCRC is to facilitate and accelerate the development and deployment of fuel cell technology and fuel cell systems; promote strategic alliances to address the market challenges associated with the installation and integration of fuel cell systems; and to educate and develop resources for the various stakeholders in the fuel cell community.

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Gavin Herbert Eye Institute

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At UC Irvine’s Gavin Herbert Eye Institute and Department of Ophthalmology, our faculty of internationally recognized physicians, surgeons and scientists provide highly specialized training to future ophthalmologists, access to leading-edge clinical trials as well as sight-saving treatments and therapies for virtually any eye disorder.

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Conte Center for Brain Programming in Adolescent Vulnerabilities

Young girl being berated

The Conte Center @ UCI addresses how early-life experiences, and especially early-life adversity, influence brain maturation and contribute to vulnerability to mental health problems throughout life. We have identified unpredictable, chaotic sensory signals from parents or environment as an important novel type of adversity- which is amenable to prevention. We employ cutting edge research tools…

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Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

H.H. Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center building

The Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center (CFCCC) of the University of California, Irvine is  the only NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center based in Orange County and one of 51 nationwide Comprehensive Cancer Centers. During the past three decades, the CFCCC has carried out its mission to develop new knowledge about the etiology, causes, prevention, diagnosis, and…

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Center for Complex and Active Materials (CCAM)

Images of research equipment used in the Center for Complex and Active Materials (CCAM)

The Center for Complex and Active Materials (CCAM)—a National Science Foundation-funded Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) at the University of California, Irvine (UCI)—builds on UCI’s strengths in multidisciplinary science and engineering research, experiential learning, world-class facilities, and a commitment to diversity. CCAM is committed to making breakthrough discoveries of new complex and active…

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University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI)

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Based at the UC Irvine campus, UCHRI serves all ten campuses in the UC system, interacting with UC campus humanities centers, other campus research centers, and with individual faculty and graduate students to promote collaborative, interdisciplinary humanities research and pedagogy throughout the University of California system and within the larger communities they inhabit. Through the…

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UCI Nature

Desert flowers

UCI Nature offers UC Irvine’s faculty and students opportunities to bring their research, scholarship, teaching, public service, and developing careers out into the natural environment in a wide diversity of settings characteristic of California. UC Irvine directly oversees four protected natural areas, two of which include lodging facilities and are about a three hour drive…

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Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG)

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Founded in 1972 the TLG represents the first effort in the Humanities to produce a large digital corpus of literary texts. Since its inception the project has collected and digitized most texts written in Greek from Homer (8 c. BCE) the 19th c. CE. The goal of the project is to create a comprehensive digital…

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New Swan Shakespeare Center

New Swan Shakespeare Center theater structure at UC Irvine

Shakespeare has been a part of UCI ever since the Drama Department produced A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the campus’s first class of drama students in 1965. In 2012, the Claire Trevor School of the Arts launched the New Swan Shakespeare Festival, which performs two plays in repertory each summer in an intimate outdoor theater…

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Institute for Clinical and Translational Science (ICTS)

UCI Hewitt Hall

The UC Irvine Institute for Clinical and Translational Science (ICTS) is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Clinical and Translational Sciences Award (CTSA) program. Currently, there are more than 50 medical research institutions throughout the United States that receive CTSA program funding.   The ICTS functions as a local centerpiece for…

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