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05/14/2013
Undergrad overachiever
Like a mother cooking for a picky eater, Bryan Xie spent months under the hood in a lab designing a chemical marker that he could feed to a living...
05/13/2013
Things Great And Small
Ara Apkarian hula-hoops his hips, demonstrating the way a single electron moves inside a molecule. The chemistry professor is in his lab at UC Irvine...
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Upcoming Events

05/22/2013
PSUM Year-End Social
Join us for this informal gathering of mentors and students to celebrate the completion of another successful year of the Physical Sciences Undergraduate Mentoring Program (PSUM). The event will take place on May 22, 2013 at Steelhead Brewing Company between 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. This event is only open to participants of the Physical...
06/01/2013 - Kevork Abazajian
Visitor Night at the UCI Observatory
Highlights include Saturn, the globular clusters M3 and M13, and M57, the Ring Nebula.  Lecture: The High­Energy Universe, Dr. Kevork Abazajian (Professor). Visitor Nights are open to the public so feel free to forward this message along to...
07/27/2013 - Manoj Kaplinghat
Visitor Night at the UCI Observatory
Highlights include Saturn, M57, the Ring Nebula, open cluster M11 and M16, the Eagle Nebula and the double star Alberio.  Lecture: The Biggest Lenses in the Universe: Bending of Light by Gravity...
08/11/2013 - Andrew Graus
Visitor Night at the UCI Observatory
The Perseid Meteor Shower occurs on the nights of Aug 11 and 12 as the Earth swings through debris left behind prior passages of Comet 109P/Swift­Tuttle. It is usually the most impressive...