On April 10, 2019 AirUCI will host a seminar by Prof. Hind Al-Abadleh, our 2019 Fulbright visiting scholar from Wilfred Laurier University in Canada, to be held in Rowland Hall room 390. The lecture will begin at noon and the title is “Understanding the Environmental Fate of Arsenicals from the Surface Chemistry of Hematite Nanoparticles”.
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Below is a list of past events related to AirUCI (sorted with the most recent first).
The next session of the AirUCI internal seminars will be held on Thursday, March 28th from 12:30 - 1:30 PM in Rowland Hall room 390. All graduate students, postdocs, or project scientists are welcome. This is the last winter quarter internal seminar, and Amy Christianson (Carlton group) will talk about her work investigating the clear-sky bias of satellite retrievals and comparison of data to surface measurements, as well as Wing-Sy Derieux (Shiraiwa group) talking about her work on modeling the kinetics of uptake of dimethylamine by ammonium sulfate and ammonium sulfate-sucrose particles. Join them for great pizza, great science, and great company!
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 students who have expressed interest in learning more about graduate studies in chemistry, and we have nine graduate students from AirUCI. Each graduate/undergraduate pair will be in touch as needed/desired, and every 2 or 3 weeks they will "meet" as a full group via video conferencing to talk about some topic (e.g. life in grad school or professional development). In August, we will fly the Reed students to UCI for a couple of days for in-person meetings and lab tours.
The first full-group video meeting will be held on Friday, March 22nd, and the participating AirUCI students are Sabrina Chee, Amy Christiansen, Danielle Draper, Hayley Glicker, Alicia Hoffman, Bryan Hwang, Alex Jarnot, Alexandra Klodt, and Deanna Myers.
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 chamber and having them analyze their own breath samples using a PTR-MS to see what gases are emitted when we breathe.
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 different AirUCI research groups.
