News & Events

March 3, 2018

CaSTL researchers partnered with the Optical Society of America (OSA-SPIE) student chapter and Alpha Chi Sigma Colony at UC Irvine to introduce students to the Bond Breaker game at the 2018 San Diego Festival of Science and Engineering Expo Day. OSA-SPIE demoed Spectroboxes for students to build their own at home and investigate the properties of light and Alpha Chi Sigma featured polymers by having students make slime.

CaSTL 2017 UCI-ASU Pathways Program Fellow, Jasmine Thomas, presents her summer research project from Professor Ara Apkarian's lab at the 2018 Curtis L. Parker Student Research Symposium at the Morehouse School of Medicine. Presentation Title: Using Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering for the Dectection of Melamine

Congrats to Alanna Felts for receiving the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Fellowship at UCI for the 2017-2018 academic year in support of her proposed research project, "Plasmon-Driven Chemistry in Gold Nanosphere Assemblies," under the supervision of Professor V. Ara Apkarian.

February 3, 2018

CaSTL staff and members of Orange County Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. conduct hands-on science activities at the 38th Annual Orange County Black History Parade and Cultural Faire in downtown Anaheim, CA.

Congratulations! Shaowei Li for 2018-2020 Heising-Simons Postdoctoral Fellowship. He will join Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute, and perform research under the mentorship of Prof. Paul Alivisatos.
We wish him the best!

Ara Apkarian discusses past-present-and-future of CaSTL in a Radio chat!

https://youtu.be/8zT2QhOsDjE

Shaowei Li (CaSTL graduate student, Wilson Ho group) was selected for the Margaret Burbidge award for Best Experimental Research from Far West Section of American Physical Society

November 17, 2017

CaSTL Center partnered with UCI Department of Chemistry to conduct lab tours and hands-on science activities to learn more about light and lasers for 80 Long Beach Scholars from Jefferson Leadership Academy.

CaSTL Center joined the NSF Centers for Chemical Innovation at the 2017 NOBCChE Conference and STEM Festival on Oct. 30 - Nov. 2, 2017 in Minneapolis, MN. Click the title to read more...