The Catalan Government Delegate to the U.S. and Canada, Mr. Isidre Sala Queralt and his Senior Advisor Michael Utsunomiya visited UCI to discuss collaborations between the Samueli School of Engineering and The Catalan government in the context of the California-Catalonia
Feb 2024: Three new Balsells Mobility Fellows arrive at UCI
Three new Balsells Mobility Fellows start their six-month visits at UCI
Oct 2023: Meet the 2023-2024 Balsells Fellows
2023-2024 Balsells Fellows
July 2023: Pete Balsells’ Life Honored at UCI
Pete Balsells, founder of the Balsells Fellowship program in the Samueli School of Engineering, was honored at a celebration of life event on Saturday, June 10 at UCI. Balsells died Aug. 10, 2022, at age 94. The event was attended
Oct 2022: Ten New Balsells Fellows arrive at UCI
Nine new Balsells Graduate Fellows and one new Balsells Mobility Fellow have arrived at UCI
Oct 2021: Eight new Graduate Balsells Fellows and two new Balsells Mobility Fellows arrived at UCI this fall.
Mobility Program Fellows 2021-2022 Graduate Balsells Fellows 2021
Nov 2020: Balsells Fellow Judit Giró Benet wins the James Dyson International Award
2019 Balsells Fellow Judit Giró Benet has been named the winner of the James Dyson International Award for her work on the Blue Box, an early breast cancer detection kit. Judit started this work as her graduation thesis in BME
Sep 2020: Despite the pandemic, eight new Balsells fellows to join the program in 2020
While UCI is still operating under the Phase 2 pandemic conditions, eight new Balsells fellows will join the program in the fall of 2020. Two of them will be enrolling remotely but six will be joining us in Irvine this
Sep 2020: UCI to test all students on campus weekly for COVID-19
The campus announced last week that all students living on campus will be tested weekly for COVID-19. All students living on campus have already been tested once and all students arriving for the start of the fall quarter will be
Oct 2019: UCI Welcomes 9 New Balsells Fellows
A total of seven new graduate fellows, one postdoctoral fellow, and one mobility fellow arrived at UCI this fall. To learn about the new graduate fellows visit this page. To see the new and past postdoctoral fellows visit this page,