Past Events

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 students toured 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 Moreno Valley College staff members later commenting, "Thank you for such an amazing time with AirUCI on Thursday!  The students and I LOVED it!  Such...

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.

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 July 23rd from 3:30-5:00 PM in Rowland Hall room 390.

On July 16th AirUCI hosted 16 middle school students and their 8 chaperones from Moreno Valley College's TRIO Educational Talent Search (ETS) program.  The students each toured 5 AirUCI labs and had the opportunity to participate in hands-on activities.  AirUCI researchers also participated in a career panel for the students to help them learn more about career options in science.

AirUCI postdoc,Zhaomin Yang will give a presentation on her recent research from 12-1 pm on Friday, June 27, in Rowland Hall room 390.  The topic is NO2, SO2, NH3, and RH effects on SOA formation.

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 June 25th from 3:30-5:00 PM in Rowland Hall room 390.

AirUCI's AAAR Student Chapter will host a picnic to celebrate the end of the academic year on June 13th on the ISEB 4th floor patio from noon to 2 pm. Pizza and snacks will be provided. 

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.