Group News
2025!
February 19
Jessica is awarded the International Sol-Gel Society's Renata Reisfeld PhD Student Fellowship for Women! The fellowship recognizes outstanding contributions to sol-gel science and technology in celebration of the life and career of Professor Renata Reisfeld, a pioneer of sol-gel.
January 23
Congratulations to Andrew for getting accepted into the Seaborg Institute Nuclear Science and Security Undergraduate Internship program! We’re sure you’ll learn a lot (and have fun) at Lawrence Livermore National Lab this summer.
January 17
Max, Alex, Nox and Andrew finished up their Nuclear Regulatory Commission Reactor Operator Exams - great job making it through 4 hours of practical and 3 hours of written exams!
2024!
November 26
The Group has some fun in the glassblowing workshop – Maik (UCI’s Glassblower) has some stations set up for use to begin Lesson 1 of glassblowing basics!
November 6
Congratulations to Steven for passing his Advancement to Candidacy Exam! He popped some well-deserved champagne on the terrace to celebrate with the group!
November 4
Sarah gives her tenure talk to the UCI Department of Chemistry. Congratulations on such a huge milestone!
October 20
The Group holds its annual Pumpkins & Pizza celebration! Sarah has been dethroned - Antaoliy and his wife take the top prize in our pumpkin carving competition, winning with a stellar and creative upside-down pumpkin cat!!
September 27
The Group heads out a little early on Friday for an ocean swim at Crystal Cove to celebrate Sarah's birthday!
September 5
Jessica's first first-author paper, "Phase formation of γ-LiAlO2 via transformation of a layered double hydroxide (LDH) by internal gelation," is accepted into the Journal of Nuclear Materials and published online!
September 3
Audrey and Sarah travel to Avignon for the 6th International ATALANTE Conference on Nuclear Chemistry for Sustainable Fuel Cycles. Sarah gave a talk as part of the Actinide Materials and Nuclear Fuels symposium, and Audrey won the Best Poster Award for her poster presentation on machine learning potential development for uranium oxide fuels.
August 25
We’re sad that out post-bac Jacque is leaving, but are excited for her to start her new chapter as a Post Bachelor Research Assistant at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory! Congratulations on your new job! (We’ll have to come up to Richland to visit!)
August 21
Steven presents his research on the corrosion of barrier materials in repository-like conditions at the Goldschmidt conference in Chicago! Now he can relax and go see the Bean!
August 16
We're excited to wrap up the second annual Nuclear Science Workshop with the Seaborg Institute at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The one-week workshop was held at LLNL and the University of California Livermore Collaboration Center (UCLCC), and provided more than 30 UCI undergrads with a hands-on opportunity to learn about nuclear science, tour laboratories at LLNL, and network with members from several national labs.
June 14
Congratulations to our graduating undergrads, Kaneen and Jack! Kaneen is headed to Maryland to work as a Reactor Operator/Nuclear Engineer at (powerplant name) and Jack is headed up to Oregon to begin their PhD studies in Nuclear Engineering at OSU.