9/7/2025: Congratulations to undergrad Daniel Kendall (class of 2026) for winning the RSC Advances UCCS Best Flash Talk Award for his work on "Phenylacetaldehyde Photolysis: A Model of Toluene's Understudied Oxidation Pathway"!
9/7/2025: The Barber lab sends undergrads Daniel Kendall (class of 2026) and Timothy Chau (class of 2027) as well as postdoc Dr. Sara E. Murphy to the University of California Chemical Symposium. Daniel Kendall is set to give a flash talk at the event.
7/22/2025: Congratulations to PhD Candidate Shareen Ashby for passing her ATC exam an advancing to candidacy!
6/25/2025: Congratulations to PhD Candidate Cooper Crabtree for passing his ATC exam an advancing to candidacy!
6/14/2025: Congratulations to Undergraduates Nilya Moushiabad, Faye Deal and Ella Ghazinouri for graduating from UCLA Chemistry and Biochemistry, and the UCLA class of 2025!
6/11/2025: Congratulations to undergraduate Daniel Kendall (class of 2026) for winning the 2025 UCLA SMACS Undergraduate Research Poster Session Award for his work on "Phenylacetaldehyde Photolysis: A Model of Toluene's Understudied Oxidation Pathway"
6/10/2025: Dr. Tori Barber presents at the International Conference on Chemical Kinetics, discussing "Exploring the Fates of Atmospherics Peroxy Radicals with Model-Informed Environmental Chamber Experiments"
5/27/25: Undergraduate group members Nilya Moushiabad, Timothy Chau, Daniel Kendall and Arthur Lee participate in UCLA's undergraduate research poster session, hosted by SMACS
4/14/2025: Congratulations to group members Nilya Moushiabad (undergraduate, 2025) and Shareen Ashby (Graduate), who both received honorable mention on their applications for the NSF GRFP!
4/02/2025: Dr. Tori Barber gives a talk at UCLA's department of Atmospheric and Oceanographic studies on "Exploring the Fates of Atmospheric Peroxy Radicals with Computationally Informed Environmental Chamber Experiments"
3/27/2025: The Barber Lab heads to ACS in San Diego. Dr. Sara E. Murphy and graduate student, Cooper Crabtree, present posters on their work on direct RO2 radical generation. Dr. Tori Barber gives a talk in the "emerging science in atmospheric chemistry" session, sponsored by ES&T Air, and presents a poster on her work on chemical space coverage and information entropy in chamber experiments.
10/04/2024: The Barber Lab presents posters at IGASP. Undergraduates: Daniel Kendall, Nilya Moushiabad, and Graduates: Shareen Ashby, Cooper Crabtree, and Dr. Sara E. Murphy. Dr. Tori Barber gave a talk on "New Atmospheric Chemistry, and Old Atmospheric Chemistry in New Contexts: Stories from Recent Research
5/14/2024: Congratulations to Undergraduate Nilya Moushiabad (class of 2025) for winning the 2024 UCLA SMACS Undergraduate Research Poster Session award for her work on "Computational Studies of the Infared Spectroscopy and Conformer Distribution of the Peroxy-Nitrite Intermediate"