AirUCI PI Michael Dennin makes the case for Santa Claus as superhero in an article on CNET.com, a geek favorite site. Space and time, matter and energy, Santa is master of these and more. Thanks for making our Holiday season, Mike!
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Here's the latest news from AirUCI — our events, our people, our science.
2015
Thursday, December 10, 2015
Monday, November 23, 2015
AirUCI PI Sergey Nizkorodov has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Election to AAAS fellowship is an honor bestowed upon members by their peers. Congratulations, Sergey!
Thursday, November 19, 2015
AirUCI PI Jim Smith will present a talk in Santa Ana at the November 19th dinner meeting of the American Chemical Society's Orange County Chapter. The dinner will begin with a social hour at 5:30 pm, and his talk is entitled, "Atmospheric New Particle Formation."
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
AirUCI PI Saewung Kim is quoted in an article in U.S. News and World Report which lists the national parks that exceed new EPA air quality standards. He says the cause of this for many parks is vehicle exhaust rather than power plant emissions. Read the article
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
AirUCI PI Michael Dennin, who is also Vice Provost of Teaching and Learning and is Dean in the Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE), announced today the appointment of AirUCI PI Donald Dabdub as DUE's second Associate Dean effective November 1, 2015.
Donald is actually returning to DUE after many years, as he was a Faculty Advisor for Undecided/Undeclared students early in his career at UCI. In Engineering, he is very engaged with undergraduate students, and teaches one of the main gateway courses. He brings both his experience as a first generation student and an international student to DUE, and is dedicated to helping these populations of students thrive. Congratulations, Donald!
Friday, October 16, 2015
Tran B. Nguyen, former AirUCI graduate student, has received The Sheldon K. Friedlander Award from the American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR). This award, which is presented at the 2015 AAAR annual meeting, recognizes an "outstanding dissertation by an individual who has earned a doctoral degree". Tran defended her PhD dissertation "Molecular Composition and Chemical Transformation of Secondary Organic Aerosols from Biogenic Precursors" at UCI in 2012. She is currently working as postdoctoral researcher at Caltech and will soon start her independent faculty career at the University of California, Davis. Congratulations, Tran, and good luck!
Friday, October 16, 2015
Danielle Draper, graduate student in AirUCI's Smith Research Group, was awarded a best poster award today at the AAAR meeting for her poster on organics aerosol formation in the presence of NOx. Congratulations Danielle!
Friday, October 9, 2015
AirUCI PI Jack Brouwer has served as faculty adviser for the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems in Team Orange’s entry in the seventh bi-annual national Solar Decathlon, hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy. Partner schools UCI, Irvine Valley College, Chapman University, and Saddleback College form Orange County's entry, and the schools have been working for two years to design and build an innovative solar home, on view through October 18, 2015.
In a quote from the Orange County Register, Jack said, “I certainly hope this house has outreach potential for inspiring our students to pursue this technology in the future and those in the general public to realize that, first of all, it can be beautiful. Secondly, it can be energy efficient, and third, it can be sustainable for them to use for centuries to come. There’s no other energy conversion for how we should live that can claim that.” Read the article
Friday, October 9, 2015
On October 9, 2015, AirUCI will again host high school students from the Lennox Academy who will tour our labs and learn about our research projects. Their 2014 tour was such a success that a new crop of students wanted to visit us! View the schedule
Thursday, October 1, 2015
Dr. Lisa Wingen, AirUCI Project Scientist, is participating for the second year in an outreach effort as a "science coach" for a 5th grade teacher at Castille Elementary School in Mission Viejo, a program sponsored by the American Chemical Society. She will once again act as a resource and assistant in implementing science enrichment activities for the class.
