Day: August 8, 2017

Hosun Kang is named 2017-18 Hellman Fellow, will conduct research on curriculum design

Hosun Kang, assistant professor of education, has been selected as a 2017-18 Hellman Fellow. Her project explores whether and how a collaborative approach to curriculum design can promote children’s analytical and problem-solving abilities. She will conduct a summer STEM workshop involving science teachers, science teacher educators and scientists, who will develop two curricula – one […]

Daniella McCahey

A heightened role for humanities

Community internships introduce Ph.D. students to nonacademic career options

Engineers pioneer platinum shell formation process – and achieve first-ever observation

UCI researchers have devised a new method of dynamically forming a platinum shell on a metallic alloy nanoparticle core, a development that may lead to better materials for oxygen reduction reactions in fuel cells that power some cars and electronic devices. In a first, engineers were able to observe the process directly, in real time, […]