The symposium highlights the creative activities of the Newkirk Center for Science and Society Faculty Fellows, followed by an interactive discussion with guests. Speaking are:
Nakia C. Best
The assistant professor in the Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing advocates for all k-12 students to have daily access to a school nurse. Her research provides invaluable insights on how school nurses and the services they provide improve student health and education outcomes.
Tom Boellstorff
The Department of Anthropology professor is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, former editor-in-chief of American Anthropologist (flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association) and series editor for Princeton University Press' Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology.
Ty Christoff-Tempesta
He is the assistant professor and Samueli Faculty Development chair of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. His lab investigates how novel molecular designs can emerge unusual properties in organic materials to address outstanding challenges in sustainability and health, including plastics waste, water treatment, and climate change.
Vy Dong
The Chancellor's Professor of chemistry leads a research team in organic synthesis, with applications spanning from green chemistry to cancer immunotherapy. Her lab specializes in the design and synthesis of molecular architectures that can ultimately impact the discovery of medicines, sustainable materials, and alternative fuels.
Paola Guerrero-Rosada
The assistant professor of educational policy studies active ingredients of high-quality early education through an equity lens, focusing on scalable quality improvement and expansion.
Keri Hurley
The associate clinical professor of clinical pharmacy practice focuses her research on leveraging real-world evidence and the role of pharmacists to address health disparities and improve public health and patient care through innovative clinical services, medication management strategies, and vaccination programs.
Kristen Renwick Monroe
She is the Chancellor's Distinguished Professor of political science and director of the UC Irvine Interdisciplinary Center for the Scientific Study of Ethics and Morality. Working at the intersection of ethics, politics and psychology, Monroe is best known for her award-winning trilogy on altruism and more choice: The Heart of Altruism (1996); The Hand of Compassion: Moral Choice During the Holocaust (2004); and Ethics in an Age of Terror and Genocide (2012).
Asli Sezen-Barrie
She is an associate professor of education and the Stacey Nicholas Endowed Chair of Environmental and Climate Change Education. As faculty advisor for Environmental and Climate Change Literacy Projects, she works on justice-oriented partnerships across the state's University of California and California State University systems to improve climate change education.
Antonio Tomas
Before the associate professor of anthropology joined UC Irvine, he taught in Uganda (Makerere University) and South Africa (University of Cape Town, University of Stellenbosch and the University of Johannesburg). He is currently working on a book about warfare in Southern Africa, tentatively titled, The Cartographic War.
Ari Ezra Waldman
The intersection of technology, law, and inequality -- with a particular focus on privacy, information technologies, and the ways data-extractive practices impact queer communities -- is the research focus of the professor of law and, by courtesy, sociology.
The mission of the Faculty Fellows Program is to:
- provide a forum for cross-disciplinary interaction;
- increase the visibility of UC Irvine scholars and their activities within and outside the university;
- build community around the strategic mission of the Newkirk Center.
If you would like the support the program, please visit newkirkcenter.uci.edu.
