by admin on Apr 13, 2022 UCI Professor Aomawa Shields is featured in Astrophysics Variety Hour, produced by NASA’S Universe of Learning. Professor Shields appears at minutes 7:12 and 12:43 of the video,...
Read More by admin on Jan 26, 2022 UCI Professor Aomawa Shields is featured in “UCI’s Rising Stargirls Program Dawns Again This Summer”, an article by Lucas Van Wyk Joel of UCI Physical Sciences Communications which discusses her program, Rising...
Read More by admin on Oct 06, 2021 UCI Professor Aomawa Shields is featured in StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson Season 12, Episode 22: “Cosmic Queries – Exoplanetary Exploration with Dr. Aomawa Shields” which presents a discussion of exoplanet exploration and Dr....
Read More by admin on Feb 19, 2021 UCI Professor Aomawa Shields’ newly published Inside Higher Ed article, “Claiming a Louder Life: Part I,” and its sequel, “Claiming a Louder Life: Part II” are now available. The articles discuss the treatment...
Read More by admin on Oct 16, 2020 UCI Professor Aomawa Shields is featured in Adler Planetarium’s Online Exhibit “Life on Other Worlds.” An exhibit which is about the search for life and covers astrobiology/SETI on Earth, in the solar system, and...
Read More by admin on Mar 16, 2020 UCI Professor Aomawa Shields is featured in award-winning author Tonya Bolden’s book, Changing the Equation: 50+ US Black Women in STEM. A book that features groundbreaking black women who are pioneering STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) fields...
Read More by admin on Jan 10, 2020 Climates of Distant Terrestrial Worlds The research of UCI Professor Aomawa Shields is featured in an article on AAS Nova online. What determines the climate of an Earth-like planet orbiting its host star? And how is that climate...
Read More by admin on Jun 08, 2019 Professor Aomawa Shields is honored to be one of the 12 women highlighted in Teen Vogue’s article about working to build an inclusive and welcoming environment for women to thrive in STEM fields. “When I returned to...
Read More by admin on Sep 14, 2018 Professor Aomawa Shields shares her nontraditional career path to becoming an Astronomer. An Unexpected Path to Becoming an Astronomer NOVA/PBS, September 5, 2018 “Set out to study space––and then spent over a decade acting in Hollywood....
Read More by admin on Jun 22, 2018 Three faculty from the UCI School of Physical Sciences have received the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Early Career Development Awards to support their research, which also includes educational programs for middle school through college-age...
Read More by admin on Sep 19, 2017 The NASA Habitable Worlds Program has selected the proposal, “The effect of salt- and land-albedo feedback on the climate and habitability of M-dwarf planets” (PI Aomawa Shields, UC Irvine) for funding beginning in fiscal year 2017. With...
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