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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.

Dr. Rufus Edwards, Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at UCI's School of Medicine, is now an AirUCI PI.  His research focuses on the effects of air pollution on human health, including assessment of human exposures to household air pollution from solid fuel use and subsequent health effects; emissions from household combustion sources including greenhouse gases and particulate matter including black carbon; emissions from rural small scale industries.  He is well know for development of innovative sampling and analysis techniques.  Welcome, Rufus!

AirUCI Director Barbara Finlayson-Pitts was the keynote speaker at the Gordon Research Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry: Multiphase Processes: Observations and Fundamentals which was held August 3-7, 2015 in Waterville Valley, New Hampshire.  Her talk was entitled, "Particles, Pesticides and Politics".  In addition, AirUCI PI Sergey Nizkorodov was an invited speaker at the conference, with a talk entitled, "The State of Knowledge of Condensed-Phase Photochemistry in Atmospheric Organic Aerosols".  Former AirUCI collaborator Markus Ammann was also an invited speaker and former AirUCI postdoc Jennie Thomas was a discussion leader for the Halogens in the Troposphere session.

AirUCI PI Mike Dennin is often interviewed on TV for his expertise in Physics, Chemistry, and Earth Sciences. He's a regular on the Discovery Channel, the Science Channel, and other networks, and his course "Science from Superheroes to Global Warming" has become famous and is now offered on the online learning site, Coursera. Congratulations, Mike!