Physical Sciences students who graduate from UCI go on to do amazing things in a variety of fields. We will feature many Anteaters and highlight some of their post-graduation accomplishments, so check back regularly for new additions.

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Maggie, originally from Eureka, CA, completed her Ph.D. in atmospheric chemistry with the Aerosol Photochemistry Group at the University of California, Irvine. Maggie was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Council for Science and the Environment in Washington, DC. She worked on a variety of projects, including the US Forest Service Research Outlook project, the Wildlife Habitat Policy Research Program, and EnvironMentors, an environmental science-based mentoring program for under-served high school students. Maggie is also a contributor to the Earth Portal, a free, global resource for comprehensive information about the environment. She has played a leading role in creating a collection of climate change information within the Earth Portal. In September, Maggie began an American Geophysical Union Congressional Science Fellowship.

Brandon Brown graduated from UC Irvine in 2004 with a BS degree in Applied Math and was on the 5 year plan. But in this time, he conducted research at Cornell University, spent a year at the National University of Singapore, and was an intern at HSRC in South Africa. Brandon also conducted research at the UCI Department of Medicine, and was involved in mentoring and mathematics tutoring with the UCI CAMP program.  After graduation, he spent time at the National Cancer Institute and was subsequently accepted into the MPH program at UCLA with a focus on Epidemiology.  This focus allowed him to make use of his skills and training in mathematics, while also branching out into public health. He received full financial support as a staff research associate, and subsequently worked as the program director of the CAMP Summer Science Academy. After 2 years at UCLA, Brandon entered the Doctor of Philosophy program in International Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health under full fellowship.  Training in applied math at UCI helped him excel in the strenuous biostatistics and epidemiology courses. In 2008, Brandon became a PhD candidate and left Baltimore with his wife for Lima, Peru where he is currently working on his dissertation on HPV vaccine. Brandon was recently married and reunited with friends from UCI including Cindy Fern who was always supportive of his goals. Zot zot zot!

I started college at the University of California, Irvine intending to major in chemistry, maybe math but absolutely under NO circumstance physics. Ten years later, I find myself with a B.S. in physics from UCI and Ph.D. in the subject from the University of Pennsylvania and an Enrico Fermi Fellowship working on the LHC experiment ATLAS with the University of Chicago. What changed my mind? The UCI physics department was full of opportunities for undergraduates to work in research labs. Starting as a freshman and continuing throughout my four years at Irvine, I worked on two gamma- ray experiments, Milagro and Project GRAND (with Notre Dame University), the Fermilab collider experiment, DZero, and two neutrino experiments, IMB and Super-Kamiokande. Working on these experiments was for me the moment of revelation: 'Wow, there is more to physics than boxes on an incline!'... (click here to read Monica's entire biography)