New UC Irvine faculty member Aomawa Shields studies the climate on distant planets. Her aim: find those most likely to host alien life.

In an ultra-clean laboratory 2 kilometers underground, the fundamental properties of neutrinos and dark matter can be studied, providing new insights into the laws of physics and the composition and evolution of the universe. Professor McDonald will discuss past and present measurements of the basic properties of these particles and the resulting impact on our understanding of the Sun, our galaxy, and our universe. Join us on March 1, 2017 for this annual lecture honoring Fred Reines. 

Franklin Dollar, assistant professor of physics & astronomy, grew up on a reservation in a home with no electricity. Now he studies ultra-high-intensity laser-plasma interactions and works to increase diversity in scientific fields. 

Professors Jonathan Feng and Tim Tait have shown that puzzling data in nuclear physics can be explained by a fifth fundamental force of nature with implications for the unification of forces and efforts to understand the dark matter that pervades the universe.