UCI ANNOUNCEMENTS AND NEWS
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Air Force adopts professor’s inventive jet design
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In 2027, a futuristic airplane co-designed by adjunct aerospace engineering professor Robert Liebeck, 85, is expected to start zipping through the skies for the U.S. Air Force. The blended wing body jet, which can also be used for commercial flights, lowers airport noise by 30 to 50 decibels and burns about 25% less fuel, says Liebeck, who worked at Boeing for 58 years before retiring in 2020. The plane, whose development was funded by NASA, has “the potential to transform air operations … and significantly reduce fuel demand, giving our warfighters the strategic advantage they need to win,” said Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall at an event announcing the prototype project. In addition to airplanes, Liebeck has designed wings for race cars that won the Indianapolis 500 and the Formula One World Championship, and the keel for the America yacht that won the 1992 America’s Cup.
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Improving access to computer science education
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Elementary Computing for All, a collaboration between School of Education researchers and K-12 teachers at the El Sol Science and Arts Academy of Santa Ana, helps to promote computational thinking for multilingual students at an early age.
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Holocaust exhibit examines citizen roles in atrocity
The central role of Adolf Hitler and other Nazi leaders in the murder of 6 million Jews is indisputable, but ordinary people across Europe also played a part. The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s traveling “Some Were Neighbors” poster exhibit examines the motives and pressures that influenced citizen choices and behaviors in Nazi Germany. What role did average people play, and why did so few help the victims? The exhibit is open to the public and will be on display in the Langson Library through Nov. 30 during regular library hours.
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Big West Men’s Soccer Playoffs
Saturday, 6 p.m. (sponsored by UCI Athletics)
“Bedevilled” screening and Q&A with director
Monday, 2 p.m. (sponsored by Center for Critical Korean Studies)
Notes on (Tones of) Violence
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. (co-sponsored by Critical Theory and School of Humanities)
Shop and Cook Healthy
Tuesday, 3 p.m. (sponsored by UCI Health)
Visit today.uci.edu to see and submit event listings. Events of general interest will be shared in UCI Digest two days before they occur.
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Walk like an Egyptian (archaeology expert)
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She hangs out in ancient Egyptian graveyards, co-hosts a Portuguese podcast called “Three Egyptologists walk into a bar” (“Três egiptólogues entram num bar”) and has an Instagram account full of entrancing photos from her research and travels. Meet Luiza Osorio G. Silva (below), who recently joined UCI as an assistant professor of art history specializing in Egyptian archaeology. The photo above is from her visit to Deir el-Bahari, an Egyptian necropolis along the Nile. And below left is the colorful Temple of Esna, built to honor an Egyptian god.
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#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 Wall Street Journal, Nov. 2
Cited: Steven J. Davis, professor of Earth system science
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Bloomberg, Nov. 1
Cited: Jeff Wasserstrom, Chancellor’s Professor of history
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The Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov. 1
Cited: Dale Leaman, executive director of undergraduate admissions
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