The American Physical Society (APS) Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP) are three-day regional conferences held simultaneously throughout the United States and Canada for undergraduate physics and astronomy majors. UC Irvine was selected as a conference location in 2020 and a plethora of volunteers were needed to make the event a success, considering this was the largest session of CUWiP in the history of the conference, with over 300 attendees!
Barty Group graduate researcher Haytham Effarah and undergraduate researcher Lisset Ayala both volunteered at the conference. Lisset also served as a panelist for a discussion geared towards students intending to transfer from community college to a 4 year institution.
