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Each year, the Umoja Community partners with other groups on campus incluing the BSU and AAFSA, to sponsor a series of activities including cultural field trips, university visits, Umoja sponsored conferences and events, and opportunities for deeper understanding of African American culture and experiences.  A sample of planned activities include:

  • Umoja Remixer: Walking into the Village - January
  • Day of Service - January
  • Black History Month events - February
  • Movie Night - March
  • A2MEND Summit - March
  • Black Student Success Week - April 
  • Juneteenth Celebration - June

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    STEM Talks Presents Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz: Cosmic alchemy in the era of gravitational wave astronomy

     

    Your Body Was Forged in the Spectacular Death of Stars

    The source of about half of the heaviest elements in the Universe has been a mystery for a long time. Although the general picture of element formation is well understood, many questions about the astrophysical details remain to be answered. Here I focus on recent advances in our understanding of the origin of the heaviest and rarest elements in the Universe.

    Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz is a Professor and the Vera Rubin Presidential Chair at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC).  After studying at the University of Cambridge, he was the John Bahcall Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Since joining the UCSC faculty in 2007, Ramirez-Ruiz has won a number of awards for his research, including a Packard Fellowship, the NSF CAREER Award, the Radcliffe Fellowship at Harvard, the Niels Bohr Professorship from the Danish National Research Foundation, the HEAD Mid-Career Prize from the AAS and the Bouchet Award and the Dwight Nicholson Medal from the American Physical Society.  He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and  member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Professor Ramirez-Ruiz is eager to understand our origins and disruptive events in the night sky. He works with computer models to understand the cataclysmic death of stars and recently led efforts to uncover the origin of the heaviest elements in the Universe. Ramirez-Ruiz tests out his theories with complex computer simulations that defy the boundaries of human experience and the assumptions we make about the Universe. He has authored or co-authored about two hundred and eighty research papers, two dozen in Science and Nature. He has lectured, broadcast and written widely on science and is a highly decorated teacher and research adviser. As the director of the Lamat Institute, he works vigorously to support the promotion and retention of women and historically marginalized students in STEM.

    MPC students are encouraged to RSVP for this event in order to plan appropriately for space.

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