• The Reines Lecture Series honors Frederick Reines, UCI's Founding Dean of Physical Sciences and co-recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize for discovering the neutrino. The 2024 Reines Lecturer will be Professor Andrea Ghez of UCLA, recipient of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for her transformative research on the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. Please join us for this public event on March 12, 2024 at the Irvine Barclay Theatre.

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    UCI hosted the Conference for Undergraduate

    Women in Physics [CUWiP], January 18-19, 2020.

    It was attended by more than 300 students.

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    Professor Clare Yu is
    named a member by the
    American Academy of Arts & Sciences
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    UCI-initiated hunt for

    new particles at the

    Large Hadron Collider

    gets underway

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