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Anteater Time Machine: 1970s beards, hairstyles and shirt collars are on display at commencement in 1975.
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UCI ANNOUNCEMENTS AND NEWS
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New battery could curtail need for cobalt mined by kids
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In a discovery that could reduce or even eliminate the use of cobalt – which is often mined using child labor – in batteries that power electric cars and other products, UCI scientists have developed a long-lasting alternative made with nickel. Previous nickel-based lithium-ion batteries required large amounts of the costly metal, but a team led by Huolin Xin, a professor of physics & astronomy, solved that obstacle. Electric vehicle companies are already planning to replicate the team’s results and test the new battery for safety, Xin says.
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Genetics study boosts fight against crop disease
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A new way to combat a disease that devastates grapes, coffee, almonds, citrus and olives has been developed by a team of scientists that includes UCI’s Brandon Gaut, Distinguished Professor of ecology & evolutionary biology. Building on a long-term project at UC Davis, the researchers analyzed a wild grape species with natural resistance to the disease. Through genetic mapping and genomewide association studies, they identified genes that could be introduced into other grapevines to enhance their resistance. The findings hold the potential to revolutionize the agricultural industry, the researchers said.
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A Juneteenth playlist from President Drake
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“For me, music has always been a powerful portal to other worlds and a soundtrack to history,” UC President Michael V. Drake writes in reflection on the upcoming holiday. “That’s been true from my early years, working at Tower Records in Sacramento, where I reveled in the freedom to listen to any record I wanted. Much later in life, I taught an undergraduate course on Civil Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Music of the Civil Rights Era.” Against that backdrop, he recommends three songs to celebrate the occasion:
- Sam Cooke singing “A Change Is Gonna Come” (“I’m always struck by the powerful emotion in the opening line,” Drake says)
- Aretha Franklin’s iconic “Respect,” a song written by Otis Redding
- Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, featuring Teddy Pendergrass, with “Wake Up Everybody”
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Professor’s album praised by Wall Street Journal
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“Apertures,” a new recording by Rajna Swaminathan, an assistant professor of music at UCI, “projects a translucent beauty that seems at once tender and defiant,” says a recent review in The Wall Street Journal. The “adventurous new album” draws on jazz and the music of South Asian and African diasporas, the paper says. Accompanied by guitar, trumpet, piano and other instruments, Swaminathan plays the mrudangam, a barrel-shaped, two-headed drum crafted from jackfruit wood and used in South Indian Carnatic music.
#UCIconnected spotlights student, alumni, faculty and staff photos, essays, shoutouts, hobbies, artwork, unusual office decorations, activities and more. Send submissions via email or post on social media with the #UCIconnected hashtag.
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Note: Some news sites require subscriptions to read articles. The UCI Libraries offer free subscriptions to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Orange County Register and The Washington Post for students, faculty and staff.
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The Orange County Register, June 15
Cited: Michael McBride, professor of economics and religious studies
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CBC News, June 12
Cited: Avipsa Roy, assistant professor of urban planning and public policy
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The Week, June 10
Cited: Maura Allaire, assistant professor of urban planning and public policy
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COVID-19 NOTIFICATION & HEALTH RESOURCES
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Upload your vaccine and booster records
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Daily COVID-19 symptom check
By coming to campus each day, students and employees are attesting they are free of COVID-19 symptoms and are not COVID-19 positive. If you currently have symptoms of COVID-19 or recently tested positive, do not come to campus, or if you currently live on campus stay in your residence, and follow instructions for reporting your case or assessing symptoms on the UCI Forward page. Close contacts to a COVID-19 case are not required to stay home or quarantine, but should follow guidance for close contact instructions for masking and testing on the UCI Forward page.
Potential workplace exposure
UCI provides this notification of a potential workplace COVID-19 exposure. Employees and subcontractors who were in these locations on the dates listed may have been exposed to the coronavirus. You may be entitled to various benefits under applicable federal and state laws and University-specific policies and agreements. The full notification is available on the UCI Forward site. If you have been identified as a close contact to a COVID-19 case, the UCI Contact Tracing Program will contact you and provide additional direction.
UCI Forward – information on campus status and operational updates
Contact Tracing and Vaccine Navigation Services – assistance with COVID questions including vaccines and vaccine uploads or to report a case, available at contacttracing@uci.edu or 949-824-2300
Employee Experience Center – employee information on COVID benefits
For questions specific to your personal health situation, please contact your doctor or healthcare provider.
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