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Haley Staudmyer, a graduate student in AirUCI Professor Jane Baldwin's group, will be competing in UCI's 2026 Grad Slam Semifinals on Friday, February 6 at the UCI Student Center.  Grad Slam is a campuswide competition where graduate students from all disciplines present their research in 3 minutes to a general audience.  Read more here.

A perspective paper in Advances in Nutrition, co-authored by AirUCI faculty member Professor Jun Wu, was profiled by multiple media outlets. In the paper, Professor Wu argues that environmental challenges created by climate change are exacerbating nutrition-related health outcomes, leading to research gaps related to dietary supplements.  Read the articles here and here.

Professor Scott Samuelsen, an AirUCI faculty member, was quoted in an article in the Los Angeles Times.  The article explores how the families still living in the portion of the Palos Verdes peninsula that has been cut off from the electrical grid and from natural gas are getting by.  The article states, "I've not heard of a situation that's being experienced in Palos Verdes," said Scott Samuelsen, the founding director of the Advanced Power and Energy Program at UC Irvine.  He compared the circumstances with those after a natural disaster, such as a hurricane that damages power lines or a major wildfire that destroys key transmission lines.  But in those cases, he said utilities typically work nonstop to restore connectivity and often provide short-term backup power."  Read the article.