Here's the latest news from AirUCI — our events, our people, our science.
AirUCI Director Barbara Finlayson Pitts was interviewed for an article on air pollution for The Los Angeles Times. She explained how winter air pollution forms in an article published January 19, 2014 which also described many causes of air pollution state wide. Read the article
AirUCI Director Barbara Finlayson-Pitts has received the prestigious 2013 Haagen-Smit Award for Outstanding Contributions to Air Pollution Science from the California Air Resources Board. She joins an elite group who have received this award, including her husband, James N. Pitts who is an AirUCI research resource and much valued as an important part of our team. We're so proud, Barbara!
AirUCI Director Barbara Finlayson-Pitts has been admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
AirUCI is cited in an article published by our collaborators at the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory located at Pacific Northwest National Lab. The cover article, appearing in the December 2013 issue of their newsletter The Molecular Bond, is entitled "Understanding the Impact of Brown Carbon on Climate" and discusses our joint research, extensively quoting AirUCI PI Sergey Nizkorodov and our PNNL collaborator, Alex Laskin.
View the article beginning on page 7 of the December 2013 issue
Joel Langford—of AirUCI's Blake research group—and Yuriy Slutskyy are the first to receive F.S. and Joan Rowland Fellowships. This fellowship is named in honor of Sherry Rowland, a collaborator and guest speaker as well as an early supporter of AirUCI, who won the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his co-discovery of the effects of chlorofluorocarbons on the earth'sozone layer. Congratulations to Joel and Yuriy!
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AirUCI PI Filipp Furche has been awarded the 2013 Dirac Medal of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists. This prize is given each year to one outstanding theoretical and computational chemist under the age of 40, and Filipp received it for his developments in time-dependent density functional theory and its application to photochemistry, as well as his contributions to the random-phase approximation for small bandgap systems. Well done, Filipp!
On Friday, September 13, the National Fuel Cell Research Center (NFCRC) will host a visit of Professor Petros Sofronis to UCI, after which he will tour AirUCI's labs. Dr. Sofronis is Professor at the University of Illinois (Champagne Urbana) of Mechanical Science and Engineering in solid mechanics, micromechanics, and fracture mechanics. He also is Director of the International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research (I2CNER).
AirUCI will host Dr. Aiko Matsunaga of the California Air Resources Board in a tour of our labs on Thursday, August 15th.
During the week of August 5-9, 2013, AirUCI will participate in UCI's Chemical and Materials Physics (ChaMP) summer program by providing tours of several of our labs. The ChaMP program is designed to prepare M.S. and Ph.D. students for careers in Physical Sciences, where cross-disciplinary education with an emphasis on applications is increasingly required.
On Tuesday, July 30 and on Wednesday, August 21, AirUCI will host tours for teachers participating in the ScienceOC Project Based Learning Institute summer program. These are local schoolteachers who are getting a first-hand look at resources available in their community for enhancing their curricula and inspiring new approaches to classroom presentations.
