Category: Hive Buzz

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

Maria Montchal communicates about communication! In a blog post for NeuroCrew, a neuroscience communications agency, she discusses tips for how to write about science in a digestible manner. Maria emphasizes the importance of considering one’s audience and one’s goal ahead of time. She shares some guiding questions that anyone can

One of our hivers, Bryce Wilson, won a prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation! Here is what he has to say about his research: In my lab we study how cells interact with their physical environment. Cells are not only responsive to chemical signals around them, they

Brenna was awarded the UCI Carbon Offsets Fellowship under the Carbon Neutrality Initiative. She will help decrease harmful emissions at UCI by researching and recommending practices to make UCI net carbon neutral. Way to go Brenna!!

Krista Fruehauf published a scientific paper on targeted drug therapies using polymers. Drug delivery relies upon a few different methods, just like how people rely on different forms of transportation. Some are better for the planet or are faster means of crossing large areas. However, unlike the transportation we experience that

Chloe Groome took victory in her section at the Associated Graduate Students (AGS) Graduate Research Symposium on April 26, 2019. Her talk was on, “Leaving Platinum Behind: A Path to Affordable Hydrogen Fuel Cells.” She spoke in the Biology, Chemistry, and Medicine category. This annual symposium provides a venue for