UC Irvine News Brief: UCI's Jun Wu wins $450,000 air pollution research award

The assistant professor of public health & epidemiology will probe links to adverse birth outcomes.

Chemist honored for reducing air pollution

Barbara Finlayson-Pitts, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at UC Irvine, will receive a California Air Quality Award from the Coalition for…

Decarbonization leads to more equable air quality in California

UCI study shows how climate mitigation options would affect health of various communities

AirUCI institute awarded nearly $2 million to study non-tailpipe vehicle emissions

Interdisciplinary researchers will examine impacts on overburdened communities

Air quality improvements boosted California’s agriculture industry

Chemical & Engineering News, March 18, 2020

California’s strict air quality regulations help farmers prosper, UCI-led study finds

Despite reductions, pollution in growing regions persists, pointing to mitigation opportunities

Manufacturing, global trade impair health of people with no stake in either

UCI expert helps map migration of air pollution risk to regions far from factories

Michael Prather wins Haagen-Smit Clean Air Award

Michael Prather, professor of Earth system science at UCI, has won the California Air Resources Board’s elite Haagen-Smit Clean Air Award for fundamental contributions to the scientific understanding of the role and impacts of various air pollutants and greenhouse gases. His research group integrates global modeling with satellite measurements of the composition and chemistry of […]

UCI receives $700,000 EPA grant to study climate change, air quality

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded UCI $701,304 to study the impact of climate change on air quality. “This grant offers an exciting opportunity to learn about air pollution in the future from both state-of-the-art experiments and computer modeling techniques,” said Donald Dabdub, UCI professor of mechanical & aerospace engineering. “We know that both ammonia […]

UCI’s Donald Blake wins state’s top air quality award

UCI atmospheric chemist Donald Blake has won California’s elite Haagen-Smit Clean Air Award for his seminal pollution research.