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!
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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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The Loh Down on Science is proud to announce our managing editor, Sasha Vyatskikh, has been awarded a Chancellor’s Club Fund for Excellence Fellowship! The Chancellor’s Club Fund for Excellence Fellowship provides stipends intended to support the completion of their dissertations. The awardees were selected based on their demonstrated academic
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Diamonds are forever…and take forever to make! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Diamonds — SO divine! But they take billions of years to form and mining is dangerous. Who can wait that long for luxury? Dougal McCulloch and colleagues at RMIT University in Melbourne,
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Watching monkeys at the zoo – so cute! Until they start throwing their poop …! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science, saying… Humans and monkeys are similar – minus the poo-pitching. Mostly. We’ve got two arms, two legs, and developed brains. However, our human brains
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Pop quiz: How many trees are there in West Africa? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Martin Brandt from University of Copenhagen wondered. So with the aid of NASA and an international team, he built a computer program to count trees — using machine learning!
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Working from home in sweatpants? Yes, please! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. The world-wide COVID pandemic has kept many people inside, away from restaurants, shops, and work. Without the usual hustle and bustle, how is the environment faring? Zhu Liu from Tsinghua University in
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Your best friend is MY best friend? Is that even allowed? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. A breakup, bad work presentation, or family drama. Sometimes we just need to vent with our friends! We all need people to lean on. But why do some
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Plants and climate change: a love-hate relationship! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Carbon dioxide, or CO2, is a major contributor to climate change. But it’s also a plant food source. When the sun shines, plants turn CO2 into food! So, back when there were
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If you love cats, blink once! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Unless your kitty is Garfield, you don’t really know what it’s thinking. Cats can’t speak! So, how CAN we communicate with our feline friends? Tasmin Humphrey at the University of Sussex says: it’s
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