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Have a look through our news items from the past! You can also browse through our past newsletters. 2008 News Pavel Jungwirth receives prestigious award! Pavel Jungwirth, one of AirUCI's leading international collaborators, has been awarded the 2008 Spiers Memorial Lecture Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry in the U.K. Congratulations, Pavel! AirUCI is an ORU! Effective July 1, 2008, AirUCI was accepted as an Organized Research Unit on the campus of the University of California, Irvine. This designation ensures a stable level of campus support for our research institute and provides other institutional benefits while greatly expanding our faculty. Details Jonathan Raff receives NSF fellowship! AirUCI researcher Jonathan Raff applied for one of the NSF American Competitiveness Postdoctoral Fellowships and was informed that his is one of only four recommended for funding in 2008. Way to go, Jonathan! AirUCI team members honored! At the 2008 Edward K.C. Lee dinner held at the University Club on May 29, two AirUCI team members were presented with awards. Matt Brown received the prestigious Lee Award for scientific achievements and personal characteristics of integrity, cooperation, and friendship. Olivia Ryder received the Don L. Bunker Award, the Chemistry Department's most prestigious (and only) undergraduate honored at the Lee Dinner. This award emphasizes research for a senior planning to pursue graduate work in chemistry outside of medicine. Congratulations, Matt and Olivia! In addition, two UCI Chemistry students — Jonathan Bass and Freddy Toledo — were presented with the second annual Michael E. Gebel award for second year graduate students working in environmental chemistry and who have had a period of work before continuing on to graduate school. Best of luck, Jonathan and Freddy! Emily A. Bruns and Michael B. Shaghafi Barbara Finlayson-Pitts wins ACS Tolman medal! AirUCI Director Barbara Finlayson-Pitts is the 2008 recipient of the Richard C. Tolman Medal awarded by the Southern California American Chemical Society. The Tolman Medal is presented each year in recognition of outstanding contributions to chemistry in Southern California. Congratulations, Barbara! Olivia Ryder wins ACS poster award! AirUCI undergraduate researcher Olivia Ryder presented a poster on SAM ozonolysis at April 7th, 2008 evening session of the American Chemical Society meeting in New Orleans and won one of four poster awards for the whole session! Good going, Olivia! AirUCI presents at UCLA symposium! On February 20, 2008, several AirUCI team members gave presentations and poster talks at UCLA's informal symposium on atmospheric chemistry. Jim Pitts delivered the opening remarks, entitled "The Past is Prologue". 2007 News Community Day Has Been Cancelled We have cancelled our 2008 Community Day and hope this causes no inconvenience to those who planned to attend. Look for details about possible future Community Day presentations on this News page. AirUCI boldly goes where no EMSI has gone before! Dr. Tracy Caldwell, NASA astronaut, took a bit of AirUCI with her on the August, 2007 launch of the space shuttle Endeavour. She was a Dreyfus Environmental postdoc with AirUCI PIs Barbara Finlayson-Pitts and John Hemminger at UCI in 1997-1998 and an undergrad with Prof. Finlayson-Pitts at Cal State Fullerton. Dr. Caldwell brought a token of AirUCI with her into space — UCI mascot Peter the Anteater holding a flag with the AirUCI logo labeled "First EMSI in Space". See photos Professors Finlayson-Pitts and Hemminger were invited to attend the shuttle launch and conveyed to Dr. Caldwell the deep pride felt by the entire AirUCI team at her great success in her lifelong quest to become an astronaut. Tracy visited UCI on October 17, 2007 to describe her research and discuss science in space. Details AirUCI's Jim Pitts interviewed in The Spectrum! The Spring 2007 edition of The Spectrum, a prestigious publication of the Center for Photochemical Sciences at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, is entirely devoted to an interview with our own Jim Pitts! Jim is one of the giants of photochemistry, and his experiences in the early days of the field are compelling to read. We're very proud of you, Jim! UCI Chemistry Department honors AirUCI team! At the 2006-2007 Lee Dinner, held at UCI on May 23, 2007, several members of our AirUCI team were recognized for their outstanding contributions to UCI's Department of Chemistry. Olivia Ryder received the Undergraduate ACS Award, Chris Harmon received an Outstanding Upper Division Teaching Assistant award, Samar Moussa received the Gebel Award, Maggie Walser received the Lee Award, Steve Mang and Eric Knudsen each received Hypercube Scholar Program awards, Tanza Lewis received the ACS Analytical Chemistry Division award, and Jennie Thomas received the Joan Rowland award. Congratulations, one and all! Prof. Nizkorodov wins prestigious award! Sergey Nizkorodov, AirUCI researcher and PI, has been awarded a 2007 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award from the Dreyfus Foundation to support the teaching and research careers of talented young faculty in the chemical sciences. We're very proud, Sergey! Olivia Ryder wins ACS award! AirUCI undergraduate researcher Olivia Ryder has been awarded the Orange County chapter of the American Chemical Society Award this year for a junior with a high GPA and significant accomplishments in research. Congratulations, Olivia! Maria Krisch wins L'Oréal USA Fellowship! Maria Krisch of AirUCI has been selected as a recipient of the 2007 L'Oréal USA Fellowships for Women in Science award! This prestigious award recognizes outstanding women researchers who have contributed to scientific progress. Big congratulations, Maria! Samar Moussa wins scholarship and award! AirUCI's Samar Moussa has won a scholarship for academic excellence from the Air & Waste Management Association. In addition, she was given the Milton Feldstein Award for her work in air quality. Way to go, Samar! AirUCI's Tobias and Jungwirth publish "hot paper"!
AirUCI
researchers Doug Tobias and Pavel Jungwirth have been recognized for
their recent article published in Chemical Reviews, entitled
“Specific Ion Effects at the Air/Water Interface.” The paper is
being featured on the
ACS Publications website
as a “Hot Paper” as defined by
Thomson ISI ® Essential Science Indicators. Jim Pitts receives prestigious award! AirUCI advisor Jim Pitts has been awarded the prestigious 2007 Carl Moyer Award given by the Coalition for Clean Air for his "Scientific Leadership and Technical Excellence," recognizing his lifetime of work on air pollution and atmospheric chemistry! Way to go, Jim! 2006 News Doug Tobias elected to AAAS!
AirUCI
PI Doug
Tobias was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science in November 2006! This is a great honor for Doug, and we
offer him big congratulations! Matthew Brown awarded ALS fellowship!
August 2006 Dr. Jean Futrell joins AirUCI Advisory Panel!
August 2006 Joining us on the Advisory Committee is Dr. Jean Futrell of PNNL. He is Battelle Fellow, Chief Science Officer, and Chair of the Council of Fellows at PNNL. He served as Director of PNNL's Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) between 1998 and 2002 and is now Director Emeritus of the EMSL. Dr. Futrell has authored over 600 publications, including 381 refereed journal articles. Dr. Futrell has made significant research contributions, with particular interest in the development or modification of instrumentation for specialized research purposes including high-pressure and chemical-ionization mass spectrometers and tandem and triple-quadruple instruments. His recent research has emphasized the use of molecular beam methods with state-to-state reaction dynamics. Collision-induced dissociation of polyatomic ions and electron-transfer reaction dynamics (including dissociative charge-transfer reactions) are topics of special current interest. We welcome him and look forward to his contributions to AirUCI! Barbara Finlayson-Pitts a distinguished professor!
August 2006 John Hemminger the new Dean of Physical Sciences!
July 2006 Nizkorodov group on the cover of PCCP!
In a recent paper featured on the
cover of the June, 2006 issue of Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics,
AirUCI
PI Sergey Nizkorodov and his group describe photochemistry of oxidized
organic monolayers on quartz nanoparticles. This study is part of the
group’s ambitious efforts to understand the role of solar radiation in
atmospheric chemistry of organic aerosol particles.
AirUCI team edits special edition of Chemical Reviews!
AirUCI
Professors Doug Tobias and Barbara Finlayson-Pitts, along with AirUCI
international collaborator, Pavel Jungwirth, edited a special issue of
Chemical Reviews on the "Structure and Chemistry of Aqueous
Interfaces." In this issue, Jungwirth and Tobias review their
theoretical development and experimental validation of a new view of ion
solvation at the air-water interface and its implications for the
chemistry of aqueous particles in the atmosphere.
John Hemminger receives AVS award!
May 2006 Carlos Gutierrez named Teacher of the Year!
May 2006 Arthur Winer receives Haagen-Smit Award!
April 2006 Barbara Finlayson-Pitts elected to NAS and AAAS!
April 2006 Professor Finlayson-Pitts was also named as a 2006 fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, among 175 new fellows and 20 new foreign honorary members elected this year to AAAS. This year’s new fellows also include former Presidents George H.W. Bush and William Jefferson Clinton, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, Nobel Prize-winning biochemist and Rockefeller University President Sir Paul Nurse, and actor and director Martin Scorsese. Way to go, Barbara! Details Dr. Jim Pitts among most cited researchers!
March 2006 Finlayson-Pitts group on the cover of PCCP!
In a recent paper featured on the cover of the January 28, 2008 issue of Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, AirUCI PI Barbara Finlayson-Pitts and her group describe a new mechanism for ozonolysis of unsaturated organics on solids: phosphocholines on NaCl as a model for sea salt particles. Special recognition goes to Federico Karagulian and Christopher Dillbeck! Read the article
Professor Nizkorodov addresses Symposium! February 2006
The symposium was organized by Stan Sander, Paul Wennberg, and Mitchio Okumura. For more information, visit the symposium web site at http://www.ese.caltech.edu/kinetics Alan Lloyd addresses overflow crowd! January 2006 2005 News Jennie Thomas awarded ARCS Fellowship!October 2005
"This particular fellowship program is one of UCI's most
distinguished. Fellows for this program are selected on the basis of
their academic accomplishments and promise as well as their
leadership qualities consistent with the mission of the ARCS
Foundation; i.e., representing the future leaders of tomorrow's
American scientific community." Tobias & AirUCI researchers publish three key articles!
June 2005 Among the collaborators are AirUCI researcher Professor Pavel Jungwirth of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, and former UCI graduate students Professor Heather Allen of Ohio State University and Dr. Liem Dang of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
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January 2005 2004 News December
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October 28, 2004 March 30th, 2004 – Anaheim
California At the same meeting, John Hemminger was presented with the 2004 ACS Arthur W. Adamson Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Surface Chemistry. Congratulations, Barbara and John! Newsletter Archive |