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March is Women’s History Month!

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Naomi Chesler on Cover of OC Business Journal

Naomi Chesler was recently featured on the cover of the Orange County Business Journal. Please click here to read the full article.

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Maintaining Inclusion in Engineering in a Post-Dobbs World

Professor Chesler is an author on the article Maintaining Inclusion in Engineering in a Post-Dobbs World. This article outlines the likely negative impact of the Dobbs decision on 50 years worth of progress increasing the number of women in engineering and other STEM disciplines.
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CIRC Members attend UC Wide Bioengineering Symposium

Several CIRC members attended the UC Wide Bioengineering Symposium held at UC Santa Barbara. (L-R) Back: Tim Downing, Ashley Urrutia Avila, Christopher Lechuga, Mitchel Colebank, Hunter Wallace, Nandor Laszik, Quinton Smith, Daanish Kulkarni; Front: Andrew Phan, Salla Kim, Laura Caggiano, Naomi Chesler, Nnaoma Agwu.

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Tim Downing Received Tenure!

Tim Downing received tenure starting July 1, 2022! The newly minted Associate Professor Downing received his BS in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University, his PhD in Bioengineering from UC Berkeley/UC San Francisco, and did his postdoc at Harvard University/The Broad Institute. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Downing!

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CIRC Cardiovascular Health Disparities Initiative Trainee

Aiyanna Adams is an undergraduate researcher in the Chesler lab for the summer of 2022 as part of the CIRC’s Cardiovascular Health Disparities Initiative funded by the Edwards Lifesciences Foundation. She is seeking to understand why heart rate variability predicts heart health in European Americans but not African Americans. Under the mentorship of Ph.D. student and CARE trainee Christopher Lechuga, and in collaboration with Psychological Science Assistant Professor DeWayne Williams, Aiyanna will compute heart rate variability in subjects with hypertension and correlate these results with other hemodynamic indicators of heart health.

During the regular academic year, Aiyanna is a student of Biomedical Engineering at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ. She is a member of NSBE and works as a Hostess at Red Robin. In her free time, she enjoys reading, painting, and hanging out with her friends. After graduation, Aiyanna is planning to pursue graduate studies in Biomedical Engineering.

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New CARE Trainees!

The CIRC is pleased to announce the 2022 – 2024 Cardiovascular Applied Research and Entrepreneurship (CARE) T32 training program fellows: (from upper left to right) Nnaoma Agwu, Ashley Urrutia Avila, Michelle Lanterman, Emil Lundqvist.

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Celebrating Juneteenth!

In celebration of Juneteenth, the Great Park in Irvine will host it’s first annual Juneteenth Freedom Celebration, presented by the City of Irvine in partnership with BIPOC Orange County and the UCI Black Thriving Initiative.

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Faculty Excellence in Research Award for Tim Downing

Tim Downing awarded the UCI School of Engineering’s 2021 – 2022 Early Career Faculty Excellence in Research Award.

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June is Pride Month!

June is Pride Month and this is Pride Week. UCI’s LGBT Resource Center has events continuing through Friday.