In honor of Black History Month, the UCI Department of Chemistry invites you to join this special presentation by Steve Damo from Fisk University. Dr. Damo will discuss his experience being a chemistry professor at a small liberal arts college and share his personal reflections and career tips.
Welcome Alumni, Parents & All Anteaters!
Homecoming is a UCI tradition that offers opportunities for reengagement for the whole Anteater community. Starting with this year’s Friday virtual Homecoming programming to our Saturday Homecoming basketball game—there is something for everyone! Cheer on the Anteater men's basketball team in person at the Homecoming game Saturday evening or join in our Watch Party on Zoom livestream featuring special commentators, prizes, and more.
Indigenous communities are already experiencing disproportionate impacts from climate change, which are compounded by the long history of settler colonialism, violence and forced displacement, harm from the mining and fossil fuel industries, and exploitative research practices from western scientists. It is no coincidence that Native American andIndigenous students are among the least represented in the geosciences, yet increasing representation of Natives in geoscience and other STEM fields is critical for addressing the challenges presented by global change.
Biomass is a terrible energy source – that’s why we don’t run our economy on wood anymore. But it is a fantastic carbon source, half carbon by weight. What if we could get rid of biomass waste by using clean, pollution-free ways to convert it into hydrogen, and permanently store the resulting CO2? There are some significant challenges to this future: eliminating air pollution, building supply chains that permit long-term operation, and integrating the demands of energy production and carbon removal. But these are all manageable challenges.
In October 2021, a pipeline leaked about 25,000 gallons of oil into the ocean off the Orange County coast. The oil caked beaches and killed marine life, and almost as soon as it happened two UC Irvine Ph.D. students, Joana Tavares from the Department of Earth System Science and Melissa Brock from the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, got to work.
On behalf of Dean James Bullock, please join us for our second annual Bright Past, Brilliant Future: A Year in Review.
Dean Bullock will provide an exclusive review of the School of Physical Sciences' most recent accomplishments and share his bold vision for the future of the School. Followed by a Q&A session.
Thursday, January 13, 2022
5:00 - 7:00 p.m. PT
Online via Zoom
Watch the recording here.
You read about FASER last winter — the new particle detector designed and built by UCI physicists that just might discover evidence for the existence of the biggest thing in the universe — now see it with your own eyes during a live stream event featuring three of the scientists behind the project: Professors Jonathan Feng and David Casper, and Ph.D. student Savannah Shively.
Watch the YouTube recording here.
One studies the fabric of the Universe, one studies the oceans, and one studies mathematics and cancer. They come from different fields, but they all speak a common language, one that orbits around how to grapple with big sets of data using artificial intelligence tools like machine learning. In this latest episode of Compelling Conversations from the UCI School of Physical Sciences, join Dean James Bullock as he moderates a chat between three scientists — Ph.D.
One flies through clouds so she can collect data useful for understanding climate change. Another uses cells to synthesize artificial materials, while yet another wants to discover geometric shapes no-one ever knew existed. These are just some of the ways the UCI School of Physical Sciences’ 10 new faculty do their work. Each looks at the physical universe through a different lens, but they’re all united in their common drive to extend their fields into uncharted latitudes.
On July 15, Professor Don Blake got a letter letting him know that the UC Irvine Academic Senate had awarded him their Better World Award, which recognizes the impact that a faculty member’s work has had, and continues to have, on society.