Honor Received

The Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation announced May 1 that Jorge Gardea-Torresdey, Ph.D., UC CEIN associate and chair of University of Texas, El Paso Department of Chemistry and Dudley Professor of Chemistry and Environmental Science & Engineering, was named one of 10 Piper Professors for superior teaching at the college level.
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Events

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Dr. Jo Anne Shatkin
CLF Ventures
April 24, 2012 at 4pm
CNSI Building auditorium • UCLA
"Incorporating Life Cycle Thinking into Risk Assessment for Nanoscale Materials"

Nano Art - Science and Art Intersect

"Nano Puppy" created when quantum dots formed aggregates that showed structures with different colors by Dr. Tian Xia of UCLA.
 Published in The Beat, Volume XIV, Spring 2012.

SPECIAL NEWS

The CEIN was honored to host a visit by EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson on February 17, 2012. Administrator Jackson was in Southern California promoting public health, the environment, and jobs creation by the Obama administration. She chose to visit the Center and touring labs, met with Center faculty, researchers, and students . . . more

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The mission of the University of California Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology (UC CEIN) is to use a multidisciplinary approach to conduct research, knowledge acquisition, education and outreach to ensure the responsible use and safe implementation of nanotechnology in the environment. This will allow. . . (more)

Nanotoxicology Training Program

The University of California Toxic Substances Research & Training Program (UC Nanotox TSR&TP) is under the direction of Dr. André Nel aims to solve problems in biological and environmental engineering and to provide courses on nanotoxicology that will ensure a well prepared next generation of scientists and engineers able to meet the health assessment demands of a rapidly evolving world of nanomaterials development. This includes training of experts in biology, engineering and environmental health science who will be ale to meet the safety assessment and safe implementation of nanomaterials in . . . (more)