New Exhibit on Sherwood Rowland's Ground-Breaking Research
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Good Chemistry
 "Certainly, we need to work hard to get funding, but this is a great time to be here," new dean Ken Janda says of the School of Physical Sciences. "We’ve grown from a young research and teaching faculty into one of the best there is."
http://ps.uci.edu/news/6654
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Milky Way’s Spiral Arms are the Product of an Intergalactic Collision Course
UC Irvine astronomers have shown how the Milky Way galaxy’s iconic spiral arms form, according to research published in the journal Nature.
http://ps.uci.edu/news/6668
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Quantum Leaper
Acclaimed for a breakthrough algorithm, physicist Steven White is now first to model a new state of matter.
http://www.physsci.uci.edu/news/6520
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