The world is experiencing unprecedented extreme weather events due to climate change, caused by accumulation of greenhouse gases (GHG). Methane is a GHG with global warming potential of 28 times that of carbon dioxide over a 100-year period and much more effective in trapping heat during the time it is in the atmosphere. The largest source of methane is from agriculture and waste and particularly ruminants such as cattle.
With the invention of lasers, the intensity of a light wave was increased by orders of magnitude over what had been achieved with a light bulb or sunlight. This much higher intensity led to new phenomena being observed, such as violet light coming out when red light went into the material. After Gérard Mourou and I developed chirped pulse amplification, also known as CPA, the intensity again increased by more than a factor of 1,000 and it once again made new types of interactions possible between light and matter.
Undergraduate mathematics curricula must respond to a variety of student demographics, academic interests and workforce ambitions. In the UCI Department of Mathematics, this includes service courses like BioCalculus, transition courses like Intro to Abstract Math, and concentration tracks, like Data Science. We will describe three grant-funded efforts to revamp critical UCI Mathematics courses and curricular pathways.
In this talk, Professor Patterson will discuss what molecular self-assembly is, how it is used in technologies such as nanomedicine and the COVID vaccines, and why it is important for understanding the origin of life. He will also discuss how transmission electron microscopes can be used to watch molecular self-assembly
This event is part of UCI Homecoming.
In honor of Black History Month, the UCI Department of Chemistry invites you to join this special presentation by Steve Damo from Fisk University.
In honor of Black History Month, the UCI Department of Chemistry invites you to join this special presentation by Steve Damo from Fisk University. Dr. Damo will discuss his experience being a chemistry professor at a small liberal arts college and share his personal reflections and career tips.
Welcome Alumni, Parents & All Anteaters!
Homecoming is a UCI tradition that offers opportunities for reengagement for the whole Anteater community. Starting with this year’s Friday virtual Homecoming programming to our Saturday Homecoming basketball game—there is something for everyone! Cheer on the Anteater men's basketball team in person at the Homecoming game Saturday evening or join in our Watch Party on Zoom livestream featuring special commentators, prizes, and more.
Indigenous communities are already experiencing disproportionate impacts from climate change, which are compounded by the long history of settler colonialism, violence and forced displacement, harm from the mining and fossil fuel industries, and exploitative research practices from western scientists. It is no coincidence that Native American andIndigenous students are among the least represented in the geosciences, yet increasing representation of Natives in geoscience and other STEM fields is critical for addressing the challenges presented by global change.
Biomass is a terrible energy source – that’s why we don’t run our economy on wood anymore. But it is a fantastic carbon source, half carbon by weight. What if we could get rid of biomass waste by using clean, pollution-free ways to convert it into hydrogen, and permanently store the resulting CO2? There are some significant challenges to this future: eliminating air pollution, building supply chains that permit long-term operation, and integrating the demands of energy production and carbon removal. But these are all manageable challenges.
In October 2021, a pipeline leaked about 25,000 gallons of oil into the ocean off the Orange County coast. The oil caked beaches and killed marine life, and almost as soon as it happened two UC Irvine Ph.D. students, Joana Tavares from the Department of Earth System Science and Melissa Brock from the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, got to work.