» Science Forum Series

The Science Forum recurring series is an opportunity for faculty and special guests to present their latest research to the campus community. Each presentation is approximately one hour in length, including time for Q&A with the audience. Feel free to drop in and leave as your schedule permits. 


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2024 - 2025

Science Forum 2024-2025 series coming soon!

2023 - 2024

May 1, 2024: Instructor Impact: From the First Day of Class and Resource Communication to Course Structure (Claire Meaders, Assistant Teaching Professor, Dept. of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California San Diego)

March 27, 2024: From Sustainable Agriculture to Drug Design: Scientific Curiosity Binds Seemingly Different Research Domains (Hagop Atamian, Assistant Professor of Biology)

February 23, 2024: Student Thinking about Measurement Uncertainty in Quantum and Classical Experiments (Gina Passante, Associate Professor of Physics, California State University Fullerton)

February 7, 2024 (Beckman Science Forum): Integrating Biological Timescales: Protein Methylation Linking Metabolites with Cell Growth (Lauren Albrecht, Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California Irvine) 

December 6, 2023: Essential Fatty Acid Nutrition in Infant Growth and Development (John Miklavcic, Assistant Professor of Food Science)

November 8, 2023: Who's Afraid of Quantum Interference? (Matthew Leifer, Assistant Professor of Physics, Program Director for the Faculty of Physics) 

October 18, 2023: Finding Optimal Treatments for Chronic Disorders (Cyril Rakovski, Professor of Mathematics, Co-Director of Computational and Data Sciences)

September 27, 2023: Activation of Fluorinated Compounds by Lewis Acidic Salts (Maduka Ogba, Assistant Professor of Chemistry)