AirUCI PI Don Blake has been presented with the 2013 American Chemical Society Award for Creative Advances in Environmental Science and Technology, sponsored by the ACS Division of Environmental Chemistry and the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. Way to go, Don!
News
Here's the latest news from AirUCI — our events, our people, our science.
2013
AirUCI PI Sergey Nizkorodov, along with our PNNL collaborators Dr. Julia Laskin and Dr. Alexander Laskin, recently wrote a comprehensive review of new mass spectrometry techniques for studying complex atmospheric particle systems. Published in the March 2013 edition of the journal International Reviews in Physical Chemistry, their invited article — featured on the journal's cover — quickly reached the International Reviews in Physical Chemistry most-read list. Congratulations to Sergey, Julia, and Alex! More about their article
On March 5th, 2013, Dr. Julie Lee and Dian Romonosky of AirUCI will give presentations on our research to students, staff, and parents at Buena Park Jr. High School's Science Night. This is the second year in a row that the school has invited AirUCI's participation, and it has inspired students and parents to pursue more science studies.
On February 21, 2013, AirUCI's Theresa McIntire and Lisa Wingen visited Castille Elementary School in Mission Viejo. They introduced the 7- and 8-year-old students in the 2nd grade classroom to what chemists do and what atmospheric chemistry is, demonstrating properties of materials, states of matter, and what can change when materials undergo chemical reactions.
AirUCI undergraduate researcher Geovani Montoya has been awarded the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Fellowship of $500 to support his attendance at the April, 2013 American Chemical Society meeting in New Orleans. Congratulation, Geovani!
AirUCI's Matt Dawson, one of our excellent graduate student researchers, has been awarded the initial Metrohm Young Chemist Award for his work on "Accurately predicting particle formation and growth from gas phase precursors" from MetrohmUSA Corporation. Matt will present his present his work at the PITTCON conference and expo in Philadelphia, PA in March, 2013 and his research poster will be put on display during the press conference announcing his award. We're so proud of you, Matt!
2012
AirUCI PI Filipp Furche was awarded the 2013 Durac Prize by the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (WATOC) for his developments in time-dependent density functional theory and its application to photochemistry, and for his contributions to the random-phase approximation for small bandgap systems. Congratulations, Filipp!
AirUCI has an open postdoctoral research position. Here is the advertisement, which can also be found in Chemical and Engineering News and in Eos beginning November 19, 2012.
Postdoctoral position in atmospheric chemistry, Dept of Chemistry, University of California Irvine. Lab studies of the fundamental processes involved in formation and growth of particles and of interface processes in the atmosphere. Ph.D. required.
Send CV and contact information for 3 references to Prof. B.J. Finlayson-Pitts, bjfinlay@uci.edu.
UC Irvine is an equal opportunity employer committed to excellence through diversity.
AirUCI PI Don Blake will speak at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute forum on October 31, 2012 at the University Club on the campus at UCI. His lecture is entitled "Global Warming: What UC Irvine is doing to further understanding of this phenomenon."
Students and teachers from Huntington Park College-Ready Academy High School will tour the AirUCI labs and hear an overview of our research and how it relates to life in Southern California on October 18, 2012.