Bela Abolfathi is a sixth year graduate student studying astrophysics (or more specifically, observational cosmology). She works on two ground-based experiments, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) and the Vera Rubin Observatory (formerly known as LSST), which will map the Universe to help us better understand dark energy. This research is a natural continuation of…Continue Reading Student Spotlight: Bela Abolfathi
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
Arianna Long is a 2nd year physics student studying extragalactic astrophysics. She is fascinated by extremely large and distant galaxies – we still cannot figure out how these galaxies gained mass so quickly in the early Universe. Arianna is currently working on determining whether galaxies in clusters formed all of their stars rapidly and simultaneously…Continue Reading Student Spotlight: Arianna Long