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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