On November 21, students from CSUF's Kinetics and Spectroscopy chemistry course will be touring UCI chemistry labs, including three AirUCI labs. These tours will allow the students to see what modern physical chemistry labs are like and to interact with UCI researchers.
Past Events
Below is a list of past events related to AirUCI (sorted with the most recent first).
2025
Manabu Shiraiwa's lab will be participating in the School of Physical Science's Laboratory Experiments and Activities in the Physical Sciences (LEAPS) outreach program on Thursday, November 20. The LEAPS program provides a "Day at College" experience for local middle school students, giving them the opportunity "to increase their awareness and understanding of chemistry, physics, and the physical sciences." As part of the program, Lena Gerritz, a graduate student in the Shiraiwa lab, will teach approximately 10 students about aerosols and volatile organic compounds using past field...
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: ...

