Shane Ardo
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Group Commitment to Strengthening the STEM Pipeline
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  • A new STEM pipeline model that grows undergraduate research at minority-serving institutions via collaboration, personnel exchange and online training – A DOE-Supported Program (Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC): Ensembles of Photosynthetic Nanoreactors (EPN))

  • A new STEM pipeline model that grows undergraduate research at minority-serving institutions via collaboration, personnel exchange and online training – An NSF-Supported Program (Center for Chemical Innovation (CCI): Center for Interfacial Ionics (CI2))

  • Diversity, equity, and inclusion in the age of COVID-19: A new STEM pipeline model that grows undergraduate research at minority-serving institutions via collaboration, personnel exchange and online training – A Cottrell Scholars Collaborative-Supported Program


    RCSA CSC Virtual Class
    Final Class Session for Spring 2021 Virtual Course Primer on Electrochemistry (6/25/2021)

  • Trust in the Scientific Method – Ask-a-Scientist – An NSF-Supported Program (CSDM-B Program)


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    Q&A with middle-school students through NSF Outreach at McFadden Intermediate School, Santa Ana, CA (3/24/2022)

  • Career and Occupational Mentoring for the Professional Advancement of Science Students (COMPASS) – A Cottrell Scholars Collaborative-Supported Program


  • American Association of University Women (AAUW)-CA Tech Trek camps at UC Irvine – An NSF-Supported Program (Chemical Catalysis Program)


    NSF Outreach Event
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    Hands-on activity with middle-school students making dye-sensitized solar cells using blackberry dyes through NSF Outreach and Tech Trek at UCI, Irvine, CA (7/8-9/2019)


    NSF Outreach Event
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    Hands-on activity with middle-school students making dye-sensitized solar cells using blackberry dyes through NSF Outreach and Tech Trek at UCI, Irvine, CA (7/9-10/2018)


    Tech Trek Outreach Event
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    Hands-on activity with middle-school students making dye-sensitized solar cells using blackberry dyes through Tech Trek at UCI, Irvine, CA (7/13-14/2015)

  • UC Irvine Laboratory Experiments and Activities in the Physical Sciences (LEAPS) – An NSF-Supported Program


    NSF Outreach Event
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    Hands-on activity with high-school students using electrodialysis to "desalinate" water and making dye-sensitized solar cells using blackberry dyes through NSF Outreach at UCI, Irvine, CA (12/9/2016)


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    LEAPS Outreach Event
    Hands-on activity with middle-school students making dye-sensitized solar cells using blackberry dyes through LEAPS at UCI, Irvine, CA (6/2/2015)

  • UC Irvine Equitable Science Curriculum Integrating Arts in Public Education (ESCAPE) – An NSF-Supported Program


    ESCAPE Outreach Event   ESCAPE Outreach Event
    Hands-on activity with elementary-school teachers making dye-sensitized solar cells using blackberry dyes through ESCAPE at UCI, Irvine, CA (8/15/2014)

  • US DOE Solar Decathlon 2013


  • Juice from Juice – The Solar Army Program of the NSF Center for Chemical Innovation in Solar Fuels (CCI Solar)



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