Dec. 13 - SpaceQ mission; UAW strike update
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University Hills emerges from a sea of fog before sunrise. Photo by Ian Parker
UCI ANNOUNCEMENTS AND NEWS
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, which ventured to within 5.3 million miles of the sun’s surface in June, is the inspiration for a proposed SpaceQ mission. Image courtesy NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Dark matter mission
Yu-Dai Tsai, a UCI particle physics and cosmology researcher, has been eyeing a region between Mercury and the sun as a potential hotspot for dark matter detection. In a paper appearing in Nature Astronomy, Tsai and his collaborators posit that the positioning of atomic clocks on a spacecraft in the inner reaches of the solar system could help find and measure dark matter particles that have eluded researchers over decades of experiments and attempts at observation. They’ve dubbed the proposed mission SpaceQ, short for Space Quantum.
UC NEWS AND GENERAL NEWS
UAW strike update
On Friday, the University of California and the United Auto Workers agreed to enter private mediation to assist in overcoming recent negotiation gridlock. FAQs and updates are available on the provost's continuity webpage. Systemwide information is available on UC’s strike page.
EVENTS
Fundamentals of Retirement Income Planning
Thursday, 11:30 a.m. (sponsored by HR Wellness)
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.
UCI IN THE NEWS
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.
A Brief History of Silent Protests
Smithsonian, Dec. 12
Cited: Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Chancellor’s Professor of history, and David Meyer, professor of sociology
Southern California coastal towns are losing valuable sand, putting some beaches at risk
The Orange County Register, Dec. 12
Cited: Brett Sanders, professor of civil and environmental engineering
E-Waste Could Become a ‘Gold Mine’ for Rare-Earth Elements
Scientific American, Dec. 13
Cited: Oladele Ogunseitan, University of California Presidential Chair, professor of population health and disease prevention
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