AirUCI Faculty Steve Davis is quoted in an article in Thompson Reuters describing the increasing risk of deaths due to a warming planet.
"The best way to mitigate (heat deaths) is to get electricity to run fans or air conditioning," Steve says as one of the authors of a 2017 report that predicted a growing risk of widespread deaths during Indian heatwaves. Global efforts, including as part of the Sustainable Development Goals, to bring power to those without it could play a significant role in reducing heat deaths, experts say. But if action to curb climate change is not robust enough, heatwaves could more often overwhelm or break down power grids, leaving rich and poor without help to cool down, the study warns.
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2017
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Thursday, September 7, 2017
Mike Dennin, one of our AirUCI faculty as well as UCI Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning and Dean of Undergraduate Education, is quoted on INC.com in an article entitled 10 Things You Believe That Are Holding You Back From Success (and What to Do Instead). He recommends admitting mistakes and allowing others to see you correct them and move forward rather than deflecting blame.
"Leadership requires appropriate ownership of errors and then moving forward from them. When you take responsibility for your actions, others will turn to you as someone who won't sugarcoat things, but as someone they can trust and rely upon. This in turn strengthens your leadership position as opposed to weakening it."
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Monday, August 14, 2017
AirUCI faculty Doug Tobias and two other UCI professors have been funded with seed money from the 2016-17 Investing to Develop Center-Scale Multidisciplinary Convergence Research Programs. Their submission was entitled "Convergence Science for Molecular Biology: From Computation and Social Networks to Biotechnology" and Doug will be working with Prof. Rachel Martin (Chemistry) and Prof. Carter Butts (Sociology) to develop this proposal.
Monday, August 14, 2017
AirUCI faculty Steven Davis is among the awardees of UCI's 2016-17 Research Seed Funding Program Investing to Develop Center-Scale Multidisciplinary Convergence Research Programs. He and his UCI collaborators received seed money to study sustainable water and ecosystem management in the Southwestern U.S. by increasing the accuracy and reliability of sub-seasonal to seasonal precipitation forecasts. It is anticipated this award will prepare the PIs and their teams for successful submission and funding of large center-scale research projects at UCI.
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Thursday, August 10, 2017
The American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR) has presented AirUCI faculty Jim Smith with the 2017 Benjamin Y. H. Liu Award, which recognizes outstanding contributions to aerosol instrumentation and experimental techniques that have significantly advanced the science and technology of aerosols. Way to go, Jim!
Thursday, August 3, 2017
Barbara Finlayson-Pitts has received the 2018 Polanyi Medal from the British Royal Society of Chemistry. She will also give the associated Michael Polanyi Lecture at the 25th International Symposium on Gas Kinetics and Related Phenomena to be held in Lille, France from July 22 – 26, 2018.
Monday, July 17, 2017
AirUCI faculty Craig Murray welcomes high school teachers Larry Sepulveda (Rosemead High School) and Linda Kazibwe-James (Whittier Christian School) to his research group for four weeks this summer. Larry and Linda are participating in the NSF-funded ‘Teacher in Residence’ outreach program and will be working with his research team in the lab. The program aims to provide high school teachers with hands-on experience of life in a research laboratory.
Monday, July 10, 2017
AirUCI Project Scientists Lisa Wingen and Veronique Perraud, along with Finlayson-Pitts group grad student Allison Vander Wall, are participating in this year's AAUW-California Tech Trek week, being held on the UCI campus.
Since their founding in 1881, the American Association of University Women (AAUW) has been among the nation’s leading voices in promoting equity and education for women and girls. Since 1998, AAUW Tech Trek camps have been designed to help girls continue their interests in science, math, engineering and technology (STEM) exploration and learning. AirUCI is proud to support this important cause.
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
AirUCI faculty Annmarie Carlton has received the 2017 Atmospheric Sciences Ascent Award from the American Geophysical Union. The AS Ascent Award is given to one exceptional mid-career scientist per year in the fields of the atmospheric and climate sciences for excellence in research and leadership in his or her field. Congratulations, Annmarie!
Photo of award presentation on 12/12/2017 at the AGU meeting in New Orleans
Tuesday, June 20, 2017
AirUCI faculty Steve Davis is quoted in a National Geographic article on the threat to millions of people from extreme heat events, potentially impacting the majority of humans by the year 2100. Steve says that poorer, more tropical countries are in greater peril, driving people to leave their homes and migrate which causes additional political and humanitarian stresses. He also cites data showing that summers in 92 percent of U.S. cities have become hotter since 1970 but notes that richer nations have many more options for coping with extreme heat.
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