Past Events

AirUCI will host a tour of our labs during the Chemistry Department's tenth Annual Research Saturday. This event allows chemistry majors and honors students to visit prospective research labs, and is an opportunity for our faculty and researchers to meet potential undergraduates who may want to join one of the AirUCI groups. AirUCI Project Scientist Veronique Perraud and undergrad Maryam Parvinian will show the Finlayson-Pitts and Nizkorodov labs that day. Along with Maryam (Finlayson-Pitts group), AirUCI grad student Anthony Jue and undergrad Avisa Charmchi (Nizkorodov group) gave...

AirUCI faculty Sarah Finkeldei has organized a meeting to discuss the Nuclear Energy Workforce Pipeline Program to be held on April 25th in Natural Sciences building 2, room 1201.  This day-long event will discuss facilitating pathways for students to pursue careers in nuclear energy and will feature four experts from Lawrence Livermore National Lab.

AirUCI Project Scientists Dr. Lisa Wingen and Dr. Veronique Perraud have organized regular meetings for researchers to discuss using the Igor lab apparatus.  The previous meeting was a tutorial on using the MzMine feature of Igor, presented by AirUCI grad student Lena Gerritz.  Part 2 of the MzMine tutorial will be hosted by Adam Thomas on April 23rd from 3:30-5:00 PM in Rowland Hall room 390 for a post-processing analysis of the data generated at the last meeting.

The Department of Earth System Science is hosting Earth Day events on April 22nd for a Poster Presentation & Coffee Session where attendees can connect and learn about the insightful research conducted by our graduate and postdoctoral community. AirUCI grad student Lena Gerritz (Nizkorodov+Shiraiwa groups) will represent AirUCI and our AAAR student chapter at this event, to be be held in Croul Hall from 11 am to 2 pm.

On April 17th, AirUCI hosted a group of high school students from Godinez High School who visited campus so they could learn more about nuclear energy research from AirUCI  faculty Sarah Finkeldei. The visit, supported by the Nicholas Endowment, included a tour of the UCI Nuclear Reactor Facility as well as the school’s Nuclear Materials Synthesis Laboratory.

AirUCI graduate students Sage Lauper-Cook (Shiraiwa group) and Berenice Rojas (Smith group) have volunteered as judges in the 2025 UC Irvine Undergraduate Research Symposium, which celebrates undergraduate research and creative activities.  The competition runs from April 8 - May 16 and about 30 video, oral, and poster presentations will be submitted by UCI undergrads for judging across many disciplines.

AirUCI Project Scientists Dr. Lisa Wingen and Dr. Veronique Perraud have organized regular meetings for researchers to discuss using the Igor lab apparatus..  The next meeting will be held on April 2nd from 3:30 - 5:30 pm in Rowland Hall room 390.  AirUCI grad students Lena Gerritz (Nizkorodov group) and Adam Thomas (Smith group) will be demonstrating the features of MzMine. 

AirUCI Project Scientists Dr. Lisa Wingen and Dr. Veronique Perraud have organized regular meetings for researchers to discuss using the Igor lab apparatus..  The next meeting will be held on March 5th from 3:30 - 5:30 pm in Rowland Hall room 390.

AirUCI's AAAR stucent chapter will participate in the 2025 Sustainival event to be held in Aldrich Park on February 25th.  This is an annual fair that celebrates UCI’s campus culture of sustainability and our status as one of the environmentally outstanding universities in the world. The event will feature booths from campus and community groups, including our AAAR group.

AirUCI will welcome Prof. Markus Petters of UC Riverside who will give the Physical Chemistry Seminar on February 25th at 3:30 in Rowland Hall room 104.  His talk is entitled, "How does interfacial tension affect droplet nucleation and melting point depression in nanoparticles?"  Prof. Petters will visit AirUCI labs and meet with our researchers prior to his lecture.