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Director Chesler to receive 2023 Florence R. Sabin Award

CIRC Director Naomi Chesler, Chancellor’s Inclusive Excellence Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at UC-Irvine and a member of NAVBO’s DEI committee, has been named as the 2023 recipient of the Florence R. Sabin Award. The award recognizes an individual who embodies the spirit of Dr. Florence Sabin, who broke scientific and social barriers with her research and community engagement. Dr. Chesler has made significant contributions to the scholarship of inclusive teaching and mentorship at her academic homes and across her professional networks. Her work has been recognized by numerous mentoring awards from her professional organizations, evidence of her far-reaching impact. The Sabin Award will be presented to Dr. Chesler at VB2023 in Newport, RI, in October.

You can read more about Director Chesler and this award here.

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June is Pride month!

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May is Asian American & Pacific Islander Month!

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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.