The mission of the Online Learning Research Center (OLRC) is to improve academic achievement and equity in online learning With funding from NSF Grant Number 1535300 (PI: Mark Warschauer), our team has been systematically exploring the effectiveness of virtual learning in the particular setting of STEM courses in large research universities. In addition, Di Xu…

UC Irvine has a long-standing history of excellence in research in the neurosciences. There is an established base of internationally-recognized investigators within both the School of Biological Sciences and the School of Medicine who are performing work within the field of neuroinflammation and demyelinating diseases. Building upon this expertise, UCI formally established the Multiple Sclerosis…

LUCI, the Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing and Interaction, serves as a focal point for research that follows from this vision. Our group of researchers are interested in the challenges of designing, using, and understanding the elements of a ubiquitous computing world. Some of these different facets include computing in the face of mobile computers and…

The QMDL is an interdisciplinary laboratory, focused on the quantum transport and optoelectronic properties of emergent quantum materials. We grow high-quality bulk crystals of quantum materials, we exfoliate the crystals to obtain one or a few layers of atomically thin materials. Then, we assemble new materials by stacking together two or more different quantum materials.…

The Irvine Center for Addiction Neuroscience (ICAN), located at the University of California, Irvine, will create an environment that will enhance the education of students (undergraduate and graduate) and postdoctoral trainees, as well as attract philanthropic activity through public awareness and outreach programs both local and beyond. The impact is transformative in fertilizing addiction neuroscience…

The International Center for Writing and Translation is interested in all understandings of writing and translation to foster multi-lingual, cross-cultural creative and critical research in UCI’s School of Humanities. Translation addresses difference—the difference between languages, of course, but also the difference between idioms within a language, the difference between time periods or generations, and the…

ISR’s mission is to advance knowledge surrounding software and socio-technical systems by fostering innovative basic and applied research. ISR is dedicated to: fostering innovative basic and applied research in software and socio-technical systems; working with established companies, start-ups, government agencies, and standards bodies to develop and transition the technologies to widespread and practical application; educating…

Established in 2008, the Institute is housed in the School of Social Sciences. It is a leading research center on the consumer side of financial technology–everything from mobile money to AI-driven alternative credit scoring. We focus on the everyday use and implications of these new technologies: how people engage, refuse, modify, hack, and share them,…

The Experimental Social Science Laboratory (ESSL) is a computer laboratory for the experimental study of individual and interactive decision-making. The laboratory can conduct computer-based experiments of up to 40 subjects, but ESSL also has capabilities to conduct internet-based experiments. ESSL is available for use by researchers of all social scientific disciplines who conduct experiments according…