SHIFT Board
This person serves as the President of SHIFT.
Who is Michael Dang?
This organelle, found in eukaryotic cells, serves as the powerhouse of the cell.
What is the mitochondria?
This disease became the first human infectious disease to be declared eradicated worldwide.
What is smallpox?
Opened in 1965, UCI is one of this many undergraduate campuses in the University of California system.
What is 9?
This yellow cartoon character lives in a pineapple under the sea.
Who is Spongebob Squarepants?
This SHIFT Board member serves as our Secretary and Events/Programming Committee Chair.
Who is Kayleen?
Named after an Italian scientist, this constant, approximately 6.022 x 10^23, tells you how many particles are in a mole
Who is Avogadro?
In 1955, this American physician and researcher developed the first widely used successful vaccine against polio.
Who is Jonas Salk?
This man served as UCI's founding chancellor.
Who is Aldrich?
This mascot is infamous for threatening users who forget their language lessons.
Diego, our VP, has multiple accounts on this green and black music streaming platform.
What is Spotify?
Named after an German scientist, this unit measures electrical resistance.
What is an Ohm?
No need to have a cow! When enough people are immune to an infectious disease, even susceptible individuals receive some indirect protection through this phenomenon.
What is herd immunity?
This UCI chemist helped discover that chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, could destroy ozone in the Earth's stratosphere.
Who is Rowland?
We won't analyze why you picked this clue, but for this Austrian neurologist, the unconscious mind was rarely so simple.
Who is Freud.
Our publicity chair, Julian, serves as a discussion leader for this BIO SCI class. You probably already took this!
What is Bio 2A?
In 1928, this scientist discovered the transforming principle after observing harmless bacteria could be transformed by material from heat-killed virulent bacteria.
Who is Griffith?
First identified in 2003, this coronavirus disease spread to more than two dozen countries before its outbreak was contained.
What is SARS?
UCI Physician Frederick Reines shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics for detecting this elusive, electrically neutral subatomic particle.
What is a neutrino?
Talk about being well-rounded: this hot planet rotates so slowly that one of its days lasts longer than one of its years.
What is Venus?
Anthony Nguyen, our VP, enjoys this four-wheeled activity. But it doesn't have a steering wheel!
What is skateboarding?
Named after the scientist who formulated the three laws of planetary motion, this astronomer showed that planetary orbits are elliptical.
Who is Kepler?
Awarded the Nobel Prize in 1999, this global medical humanitarian organization is known internationally as Medecins Sans Frontieres
What is Doctors Without Borders?
UCI's first graduating class was in this year, four years after UCI first opened.
What is 1969?
Talk about a short SHIFT: lettuce remember this British Prime Minister who served for only 49 days in 2022.
Who is Liz Truss?