Haytham Effarah is a first-year graduate student who is completing the MD/PhD Medical Scientist Training Program at UC Irvine. He has finished the first two years of medical school, the didactic phase, and after finishing his PhD he will return to medical school to finish the last two years for the clinical phase. The Medical…Continue Reading Student Spotlight: Haytham Effarah
Oscillators are necessary for many technologies, most notably, to send information wirelessly. Current technology has broken through to the THz regime (1012 oscillations per second), and there is always a drive to push the limit further. As our grasp over quantum phenomena becomes more realizable in the laboratory, novel devices are…Continue Reading Surface State Oscillators
When we think of a planet in orbit around a star, we have been conditioned to believe the path of the orbit traces out a circle. Unfortunately, this is incorrect; and even worse, science has known this to be incorrect for hundreds(!) of years. Dating back to 1609, the famous astronomer Johannes Kepler published his…Continue Reading Highly Eccentric Jovian