AirUCI's Matt Dawson has been named as one of this year's recipients of the prestigious ARCS Scholar Awards, which recognize UC Irvine's most academically superior doctoral students exhibiting outstanding promise as scientists, researchers, and public leaders. Way to go, Matt!
News
Here's the latest news from AirUCI — our events, our people, our science.
2012
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Dr. Zeev Rosenzweig, Program Director for the Analytical and Surface Chemistry Division of the National Science Foundation, will visit AirUCI on September 12, 2012 to hear updates on our current research projects and to tour our labs.
Friday, August 31, 2012
AirUCI PI Donald Blake will receive the 2013 National Award for Creative Advances in Environmental Science and Technology from the American Chemical Society, to be presented next spring at the 2013 ACS meeting in New Orleans. Congratulations, Don!
Monday, August 20, 2012
AirUCI Director Barbara Finlayson-Pitts was asked to write an article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences "Retrospective" after the March, 2012 passing of F. Sherwood Rowland, known to us as Sherry. His discovery with Mario Molina and Paul Crutzen of the "ozone hole" over Antarctica earned them the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Prof. Rowland was an inspiration to all of us in AirUCI and he is greatly missed.
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
AirUCI undergraduate researcher Geovani Montoya will be participating in the first annual UC Irvine Undergraduate Chemistry Symposium on August 1, 2012. He, along with his co-researchers, will present a poster entitled, "Application of Aerosol Mass Spectrometry to Animal Exposure Studies."
Monday, July 30, 2012
Robert Phalen, AirUCI ORU faculty member, has been elected President of the Board of Directors of the California Society for Biomedical Research. Many congratulations!
Monday, July 23, 2012
According to an analysis by Times Higher Education, UC Irvine was ranked first in the U.S. and fourth in the world among the 100 best universities that have been established less than 50 years! We in AirUCI are delighted at this great honor and strive to do our part to help UCI earn rankings such as these!
Thursday, July 12, 2012
AirUCI PI Don Blake has been named a Distinguished Professor of Chemistry by the UCI Department of Chemistry! Congratulations, Don!
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
AirUCI PI Doug Tobias was elected a Fellow of the American Chemical Society in July, 2013. This is a prestigious honor bestowed upon 96 distinguished scientists who have demonstrated outstanding accomplishments and contributions to ACS. He joins AirUCI co-Director John Hemminger, also an ACS Fellow. Way to go, Doug!
Friday, June 29, 2012
AirUCI PI Sergey Nizkorodov, along with our PNNL collaborators Alex Laskin and Julia Laskin, wrote a featured article in the scientific journal Environmental Chemistry entitled "Mass spectrometric approaches for chemical characterization of atmospheric aerosols: critical review of most recent advances".
Mass spectrometry of atmospheric aerosols is a booming subject, with some 200-300 papers published in this area every year, and this article is a review of much of the research being done. In addition, several recent AirUCI researchers are noted in the article: Emily Bruns' ASAP method, Aline Gratien's surprising observation of making aromatic molecules in oxidation of alpha-pinene, and multiple papers by Tran Nguyen on analysis of isoprene SOA and limonene SOA and by Adam Bateman on limonene SOA. We're proud of AirUCI's contributions to this exciting field! Read the article
