Category: Hive Buzz

Krista was selected as the Chemistry Department’s Science Communication Fellow through the School of Physical Sciences! She is in charge of the department’s social media presence, including Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. She also coordinates with the School of Physical Sciences to generate new ideas and ways of sharing all

Karen Arcos, one of our fabulous LDOS writers, was selected to present her research at the UCI Grad Slam Finals! Karen presented a 3-minute talk, titled “Digit Dare,” in front of hundreds of people and judges from all around Orange County! Congrats, Karen!

Alex Jarnot was recently featured on the podcast “This Grad Life,” founded and hosted by emeritus Hive member, Ted Yoo. Listen to Alex talk about atmospheric chemistry, ninja air cans, and Chex Mix here!

Victoria Lim was awarded the Penny J. Gilmer grant ($1000) to attend OpenEye CUP XX in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The OpenEye CUP series is a top conference in computational chemistry, bringing together industry leaders with outstanding researchers and students.

Chloe Groome won an ARCS Scholar Award, which recognizes and rewards UC Irvine’s most academically superior doctoral students exhibiting outstanding promise as scientists, researchers and leaders. Congrats, Chloe!!

Racine Rangel is a second year PhD student in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. For a class assignment by Professor Brandon Gaut, she was tasked with a new writing assignment format to try writing a script for a Loh Down! Racine decided to write about the Arctic Cod and how they survive in the

The Loh Down on Science has t-shirts! How better to be a Hive than to dress alike? 😉 Designed and modeled by managing editor Sarah Block!

Check out this new podcast by one of our managing editors, Ted Yoo! It’s about hot research and the hot mess (grad student) behind it!⁠ This Grad Life is all about celebrating cutting edge research and commiserating with the poor souls that do all of the work. Here in this podcast

Brenna Biggs was awarded the Community-Based Research Fellowship from the Newkirk Center for Science and Society. Over the next year, she will initiate projects that aim to solve social and environmental problems for local communities. Congrats and good luck, Brenna!

This summer, Maureen Purcell will serve as a Graduate Fellow for UCI Global Service Scholars, a program run by the UCI Blum Center for Poverty Alleviation. As part of her work, she will take a group of undergraduate students to Cape Town, South Africa, where the students practice compassion in