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UCI earns status as sustainability leader among U.S. universities

Written on August 27, 2018.

Campus nets No. 1 spot in Sierra’s ‘Cool Schools’ ranking, STARS Platinum rating Irvine, Calif., Aug. 27, 2018 — With a third No. 1 spot in Sierra magazine’s “Cool Schools” ranking and top distinctions in the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education’s prestigious STARS program, the University of California, Irvine has earned its place as the sustainability leader among U.S. universities. “UCI has a long history of environmental and sustainability leadership...

UCI air quality symposium will mark designation of Rowland Hall as historic landmark

Written on April 11, 2017.

EVENT: UCI will host a two-day symposium on air quality research and a ceremony in honor of Rowland Hall’s designation as a National Historic Chemical Landmark by the American Chemical Society. The building was the site of groundbreaking research on chlorofluorocarbons and stratospheric ozone loss by Nobel laureates F. Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina in 1974 and is a leading atmospheric chemistry research center today. WHEN/WHERE:AirUCI symposium: 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesday, April 18 (including...

Concurrent heat waves, air pollution exacerbate negative health effects of each

Written on March 1, 2017.

Future may bring more overlap of synergistic weather factors, UCI researchers warn Irvine, Calif., March 1, 2017 – The combination of prolonged hot spells with poor air quality greatly compounds the negative effects of each and can pose a major risk to human health, according to new research from the University of California, Irvine. “The weather factors that drive heat waves also contribute to intensified surface ozone and air pollution episodes,” said UCI professor of Earth system science...

UCI fields airborne team for NASA atmospheric study

Written on July 22, 2016.

UCI atmospheric chemist Don Blake is about to rack up some serious air miles. As co-principal investigator, along with UCI Earth system scientist Michael Prather, on the upcoming NASA Atmospheric Tomography Mission, Blake will fly from the North Pole to New Zealand, east to the tip of South America, and then north to Greenland. He will lead a team analyzing gases and particles in the atmosphere in an airborne laboratory aboard a NASA DC-8 aircraft. Data from the mission, which runs from July...

Earth’s defender

Written on April 17, 2015.

Kathryn Bold | UCI Magazine Abigail Reyes divides her life into two parts, “B.T.” and “A.T.” – before Terence and after Terence. In February 1999, Terence Unity Freitas, an environmental activist and her “partner in work and love,” was kidnapped and murdered in Colombia. At the time, he was working to halt the plans of major oil companies to drill in territory occupied by the U’wa, an indigenous group. “[Because of] that experience, which occurred when I was in my mid-20s and a few years...

Highlights of 2012 at UCI

Written on December 10, 2012.

Year brings scientific advances, national accolades, international outreach, student achievement and loss of campus stalwarts “F. Sherwood Rowland saved the world. It’s as simple as that.” Time magazine published these words after the UC Irvine founding professor and Nobel Prize-winning researcher died last March at 84. A fiercely independent voice, “Sherry” – as he was known to his many colleagues and friends – left a profound imprint on science and society. He helped drive the discussion...

Discovering the End of the World

Written on March 15, 2012.

The recent death of Sherwood Rowland, whose work helped us avoid one of the world’s great environmental disasters, should be a reminder that we can’t afford to ignore the lessons of chemistry. David Rotman, Technology Review The work and life of F. Sherwood Rowland, a chemist at the University of California, Irvine, who died last weekend, should provide ample inspiration for those now grappling with the debate over climate change. Rowland is best known for figuring out, along...

On Our Radar: Saluting a Colossus of Chemistry

Written on March 12, 2012.

Green Blogs, The New York Times Accolades flow in for F. Sherwood Rowland, who won the Nobel Prize in chemistry two decades after reporting that chlorofluorocarbons were destroying the ozone layer. He died on Saturday at age 84. “He saved the world from a major catastrophe,” a dean at the University of California, Irvine, says. [The Christian Science Monitor] Japan ends its whaling season in the Antarctic after meeting less than a third of its annual target — 266 minke whales and one fin...

Sherwood Rowland, the Scientist Who Saved the World

Written on March 12, 2012.

Paul Whitefield, Los Angeles Times It’s not often you can say that someone saved the world — and mean it literally. But that’s the case with F. Sherwood Rowland. The UC Irvine chemist, who died Saturday at 85, was one of three scientists who won the 1995 Nobel Prize in chemistry, The Times reported, for their work “explaining how chlorofluorocarbons, ubiquitous substances once used in an array of products from spray deodorant to industrial solvents, could destroy...

Nobel Laureate Discovered Damage to the Ozone Layer

Written on March 12, 2012.

F. Sherwood Rowland dies at 84; work led to phaseout of chemicals Gary Robbins, U-T San Diego Nobel laureate F. Sherwood Rowland, who discovered that a class of common household chemicals was destroying the ozone layer and endangering the planet, died Saturday at his home in Corona del Mar of complications from Parkinson’s disease. He was 84. Rowland’s death was announced Sunday by his home campus, UC Irvine, a school he helped to build at the same time UC San Diego was being prepared...

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