Nov 13, 2020
The Weekly Anteater
Your guide to what’s new and trending at UCI
Dear Friends of UCI,
Welcome to the Weekly Anteater report for what’s new and trending at UCI!
We’ve curated a collection of top news items and trending social topics. If you’re active on social media, please share this news with your friends and colleagues. We’ve attached social links and summaries for easy sharing!
On to this week’s big news…
Is holiday travel safe in a pandemic?
Stay home, advises Dr. Susan Huang, medical director of epidemiology and infection prevention for UCI Health. It is the best way to protect yourself and others from the virus. If you absolutely must travel, follow safety tips for planes, trains and buses.
Tweet: https://bit.ly/32AENUj
Holiday parties: Lower the COVID risk
Avoid super-spreader events this holiday season. Keep the parties small or virtual, mask and strictly practice hand hygiene and physical distancing, say UCI Health infectious disease experts.
Tweet: https://bit.ly/2UqDAuw
UCI is the only top research university to offer a certificate program on diverse veterans & their roles in U.S. history & society.
The program fills a critical need, given that there are 18 million vets in the U.S.
Tweet: https://bit.ly/3kr0oET
#FirstGenUCI
UCI’s new first-gen video mentorship series First Things First is a year-long conversation with first-gen faculty and students.
Tweet: https://bit.ly/2ImkWSd
UCI In The News
“Almost any objective analysis for getting to zero emissions includes hydrogen,” — Jack Brouwer, director of the National Fuel Cell Research Center at the University of California, Irvine.
In the case of COVID-19, we can directly see that social determinants like socioeconomic status, housing, employment and access to health care lead to higher risk of infection or death…The good news is that public health experts and agencies can now use the information provided in studies such as actOC to design measures to decrease the exposure to COVID-19 in targeted communities experiencing adverse social determinants of health. — Bernadette Boden-Albala, dean of UCI’s program in public health
“This has been revolutionary for the fire scientists to be able to study how the perimeters grow,” — James Randerson, an Earth science professor at UC Irvine.
Thank you for reading! Questions? Please contact the social media team at UCI: ucisocialmedia@uci.edu
