Srivastava Lab

Explore Your Universe 

November 3rd, 2024

The lab hosted an interactive science booth for the third year in a row at UCLA’s largest annual STEM event, Exploring Your Universe (EYU), where the group presented an interactive booth to share their expertise on polymers, complex fluids, and foams. 

CNSI Teacher Training - Nanoscale Control of Wetting

May 4th, 2024

Members of the Srivastava Lab volunteered their time with CNSI to train ~12 California-based high school science teachers to do experiments in their classrooms, demonstrating the nanoscale control of wetting. 

Willows Sunday Funday

April 28th, 2024

Members of our lab hosted a booth at the Willows Community School's Sunday Funday. 100+ students from the school participated in simple experiments and demos on polymers and complex fluids. 

Exploring Your Universe

November 6th, 2023

The lab hosted an interactive science booth for the second year in a row at UCLA’s largest annual STEM event, Exploring Your Universe (EYU), where the group shared their expertise on polymers, complex fluids, and foams with the community. 

SoCal Poymers and Soft Matter Symposium

June 2nd, 2023

The Srivastava Lab organizes the inaugural SoCal Polymers & Soft Matter Symposium at UCLA. The symposium, attended by over 100 scientists, included 25 technical presentations from graduate students and postdocs, in sessions chaired by faculty members from across Southern California.

CNSI Outreach

(Empower Diversity in STEM Day)

May 4th, 2023

Members of the group participated in Empower Diversity in STEM Day—a field trip co-organized by CNSI, that brought ~ 60 high school students from underrepresented backgrounds to UCLA to gain a sense of belonging in higher education as STEM majors. The students learned about liquid crystals and even made their own liquid crystal “mood-boards.”

Science Slam (With GradSWE and CNSI)

April 30th, 2023

Members of the Srivastava Lab joined hands with UCLA GradSWE and CNSI to host labs and science demos at Westwood Charter Elementary School, Los Angeles. At the GradSWE demo called 'Grow Your Rainbow,' school students learnt about capillary effect while seeing different colors rise on a wet paper towel!

CNSI Outreach

(Water Filteration Teacher Training Workshop)

February 4th, 2023

Members of the lab work with CNSI at UCLA to showcase simple water purification experiments to middle-school and high-school teachers. 

GradSWE Mentorship event 

November 8th, 2022

Members of the Srivastava Group participated in a GradSWE (Society of Women Engineers) mentorship event, where they gave undergraduate students feedback on their cover letters, resumes, and CVs. 

Exploring Your Universe 

November 6th, 2022

The lab hosted an interactive science booth at UCLA’s largest annual STEM event, Exploring Your Universe (EYU), where the group shared their expertise on polymers, complex fluids, and foams with the community. 

PEERS Lab Tour 

November 2nd, 2022

The group organized a lab tour to first year PEERS students. PEERS is a two-year program for science majors who have had more than typical life challenge hurdles to overcome to reach UCLA