Past Events

A group of AirUCI graduate students are piloting a "near peer" mentoring program as part of their broader impacts requirement for a joint NSF project with Reed College in Portland, Oregon.  Our graduate student mentors are paired with Reed chemistry undergrads who want to learn more about graduate school.  Reed is a primarily undergraduate institution (PUI) with a high percentage of students who ultimately move on to pursue graduate degrees but, as it's a small PUI, many students have limited exposure to the details of life as a grad student.

For this pilot, there are nine Reed...

On Saturday, March 16th, AirUCI graduate students Natalie Smith and Vahe Baboomian, both in the Nizkorodov research group, participated in Science Saturday on the UCI campus.  They gave lab tours and demonstrations to 45 middle school students as a part of a three-part tour where the students visit UCI's chemistry, engineering, and biology departments.  They showed the students what aerosols are and where they come from, followed by having them make some aerosols using limonene and an air purifier that emits ozone.  They finished off the tour by showing the students our aerosol smog...

The next session of the AirUCI internal seminars will be held on Thursday, March 14th from 12:30 - 1:30 PM in Rowland Hall room 390.  The group will be taking a break in presentations over the summer, so this will be the last chance to present until Fall quarter.  All graduate students, postdocs, or project scientists are welcome, but those interested in attending should complete this form to register for the meeting.

On Tuesday, March 12, 2019 at 3.30 pm, a Pchem seminar will be presented by Prof. Hind Al-Abadleh, AirUCI's Fulbright visiting chair from Wilfred Laurier University in Canada.  The talk will be held in Rowland Hall room 104 and the title is "Physical Chemistry of Environmentally-Relevant Multicomponent Interfaces".

Grad students and above are invited to attend Game Night, hosted by AirUCI’s chapter of AAAR.  It will be held from 3:30 - 6 pm next Friday, February 22nd in Rowland Hall room 390.  Enjoy!

AirUCI co-Director Barbara Finlayson-Pitts, along with grad students Allison Vander Wall and Annie Rohrbacher from her research group, will give a presentation at University High School in Irvine on February 20th.  The presentation is entitled "Chemistry, Climate Change and Crud (aka Air Pollution)" and is an educational event for the school's AP Chemistry and AP Environmental Science students.

The third session of the AirUCI internal seminars is happening Thursday, February 14th from 12:30 - 1:30 PM in Rowland Hall room 390.  At this meeting, Brenna Biggs from the Blake group is talking about her research about manure and its impact on the California methane budget, and Jared Bruce from the Hemminger group is talking about his research using x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy to look into the air-water interface.  All are welcome!

The second in the ongoing series of talks of the AirUCI Internal Symposium is happening on January 31st at 12:30 PM in Rowland Hall 390.  Danielle Draper and Sabrina Chee from the Smith group will be talking about their research: Danielle about her work with nitrate radical oxidation of monoterpenes and Sabrina about how acid-base chemistry is involved in nanoparticle growth.  All are welcome to attend!  The group will be meeting regularly to continue discussions from the AirUCI research retreat, build new collaborations, and find ways to maximize use of equipment available throughout the...

AirUCI will host Prof. Kerri Pratt of the University of Michigan in a lecture to be held at 4 pm on January 28th in Rowland Hall room 390.  The title of her talk is "Chemistry on Ice: Shedding Light on Arctic Halogen Photochemistry".

AirUCI Assistant Specialist Shahir Masri (in the Jun Wu research group) will present a lecture on January 28th entitled, "On the Road for Climate Action: Highlights from a national outreach project."  The talk will be held at noon in the Calit2 auditorium. 
 
Over a three-month period in summer 2018, Shahir traveled across 36 U.S. states in order to raise public awareness about climate change and assess climate change sentiment around the country.  He gave presentations to numerous groups and ordinary...