A $3 million commitment from physicist, entrepreneur and philanthropist Mani L. Bhaumik will allow UCLA to establish a program for recruiting postdoctoral fellows in the departments of physics and astronomy and of chemistry and biochemistry, bolstering the university’s capacity to contribute to fundamental research across these disciplines.
A geophysicist whose work focuses on large-scale fluid dynamical phenomena occurring in and on planets, he leads a robust research program while maintaining a deep commitment to undergraduate education.
Students in the Igneous Petrology class participated in a four-day field excursion to develop practical skills in geological identification and process interpretation