Has addiction gone VIRAL? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Retroviruses like HIV make us sick by inserting their genes into our cells. Usually, these genes cause cells to make new copies of the retrovirus. But occasionally, the genes mutate and can’t make new viruses.
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Musical Bonding
“Can you feel the love tonight…” This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. There’s nothing like a long night of karaoke to bring friends closer! Eiluned Pearce from the University of Oxford and colleagues wondered — is our song “killing us softly” or making us stronger?
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On March, the Southern California News Group (1.5 million readers) published a premium issue titled “Elements“. The special issue focused on the four natural elements: water, fire, earth, and air, taking a look at some solutions to region’s environmental challenges. From the Loh Down on Science, we want to thank
Continue readingBahareh successfully advanced
Bahareh, one of our amazing hive Managing Editors, successfully advanced to candidacy and is a Ph.D. Candidate! The advancement to candidacy exam accounts towards obtaining the Ph.D. degree and occurs before developing and defending the Ph.D. Dissertation. Congratulations, Bahareh!
Continue readingBrenna successfully graduates
Brenna successfully defended her Ph.D. Dissertation and is now Dr. Biggs! Brenna got her Ph.D. in Chemistry and the title of her dissertation was “Dairy Farm and Landfill Emissions in California: The Impact on Communities of Disadvantage”. Congratulations, Brenna!
Continue readingHeidi Featured Creature series!
Heidi Waite, an hiver writer, has started a monthly project called Featured Creature! Created by Heidi, Featured Creature is a very visual and audience-friendly monthly flyer highlighting some pretty cool animals and graduate researchers and conservationists. Great work, Heidi! Congratulations!
Continue readingHeidi wins the GOLD Fellowship
Hive writer Heidi Waite has recently awarded a Presidential Graduate Opportunities for Leadership Development (GOLD) Fellowship for the upcoming summer! This fellowship offers doctoral-level graduate students an opportunity to spend a quarter, semester, or summer term in residence or virtually in Sacramento for the purpose of conducting public policy research on issues germane
Continue readingRacine selected as a Pedagogy Fellow!
Racine Rangel has been selected as a Pedagogical Fellow of the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department for the academic year 2021-2022! The Pedagogical Fellows (PF) Program at UCIrvine is a highly regarded “preparing future faculty” program; the selection is competitive, based on a record of excellent teaching, promising scholarship, and
Continue readingYing at Grad Slam!
Ying Huang, one of our LDOS writers, has been selected to present her research at the UCI Grad Slam Finals! Ying will present a 3-minute talk about her research in this year’s Virtual Grad Slam Finals. Congrats and good luck, Ying!
Continue readingAllie successfully advanced
Allie, one of our amazing hive writters, successfully advanced to candidacy and is a Ph.D. Candidate! The advancement to candidacy exam accounts towards obtaining the Ph.D. degree and occurs before developing and defending the Ph.D. Dissertation. Congratulations, Allie!
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