Past Events

The AAAR Student Chapter at UCI is hosting its first "Internal Seminar" meeting for the 2025-26 school year.  The event will be held at Rowland Hall Room 390 on Friday, November 7, from 12-2pm and will include pizza and other refreshments.  These seminars are exclusively for non-faculty researchers to attend - graduate students, undergraduates, project scientists, and postdocs are all welcome. 

There will be four 20 min presentations from third-year AirUCI graduate students practicing their advancement talks.  Anthony Jue will present "Effects of Transition Metal Oxide Mineral Dusts...

AirUCI Project Scientist Dr. Veronique Perraud holds monthly tutorial sessions to teach AirUCI researchers and others how to use Igor, a technical graphing and data analysis software for scientists.  The next tutorial will take place on Wednesday, Nov 5th, from 3:30-5pm in Rowland Hall Rm 390.

Students from Concordia University's upper level analytical chemistry course will be visiting UCI's chemistry department on November 3rd.  During their 2-hour visit, they will tour two AirUCI labs, as well as the department's NMR and Mass Spectrometry core facilities.

AirUCI Project Scientist Dr. Veronique Perraud regularly holds tutorial sessions that teach AirUCI researchers and others how to use Igor, a technical graphing and data analysis software for scientists.  The next tutorial will take place on Wed, October 1st, from 3:30-5pm in Rowland Hall Rm 390.

AirUCI Project Scientist Dr. Veronique Perraud regularly holds tutorial sessions that teach AirUCI researchers and others how to use Igor, a technical graphing and data analysis software for scientists.  The next tutorial will take place on Wed, August 20 from 3:30-5pm in Rowland Hall Rm 390.

Dr. Christian Pfrang, Professor of Atmospheric Science at the University of Birmingham, will be giving a talk at 11am in Rowland Hall Room 390 on August 18.  His seminar is entitled "Levitated & Nano-structured Cooking Aerosols, Bees, Peace Lilies & Air Fresheners:  a Journey through Outdoor & Indoor Air Pollution Research."  In his lecture, Professor Pfrang will cover a range of air pollution research considering reactions of atmospheric gases and particles outdoors and indoors, and their impacts on humans and pollinators.

On August 13th, AirUCI will welcome Dr. Paola Crippa, Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Egineering & Earth Sciences at the University of Notre Dame.  She will be giving a talk at 11am in Rowland Hall Room 390 entitled "Reducing Sources of Uncertainty of Air Pollution Health Impacts Estimates."  Professor Crippa will also be meeting with AirUCI researchers throughout the day.

AirUCI's AAAR Student Chapter has booked a tour of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). The tour will be from 9:30 to 12:00 on July 28th. The tour will include JPL's control room, their clean room where they build satellites, and the earth science building.

There is space for 35 participants, and the link to the sign-up form is here: ...

On July 24th AirUCI hosted 10 community college students and 2 staff members from Moreno Valley College's TRIO Academic Counseling and Educational Support (ACES) program.  The group visited 4 AirUCI labs, with each lab tour including presentations by AirUCI researchers and hands-on demonstrations.  Following the tours, a panel of AirUCI researchers answered questions from the students. 

The event was a great success, with one of the staff members later commenting, "Thank you for such an amazing time with AirUCI on Thursday!  The students and I LOVED it!  Such an amazing experience...

AirUCI will be hosting university students from South Korea's Gyeonggi Youth Ladder Program on July 23rd.  AirUCI scientists will provide the students with tours of our labs and speak with them about our research projects.  The students have a particular interest in environmental sustainability, climate change mitigation, and air quality research, and their visit aims to help them clarify their future career paths.