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Lorena Anderson

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Office: (209) 228-4406

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Chemistry Students in Australia for Summer Research Experience

Professor is looking for undergrads to help her get the lead out — out of drinking-water pipes.

Fossil Shark Research Draws Prestigious NSF Award

Professor has received a CAREER award for her project that bridges concepts between modern and ancient marine ecosystems by integrating geochemical and modeling approaches with paleobiology.

Kim is the 34th researcher from Ƶ to earn a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

First Test of Perovskite Films in Space Indicates More Resilience than Researchers Expected

Solar films developed by a graduate student in the at Ƶ while on an internship at NASA Glenn Research Center (GRC) not only survived 10 months in space with minimal degradation, but the little damage they did incur was more than 90 percent reversible.

Group Conflict Inspires People to Feel Morally Elevated — for Their Side — Study Shows

You know that warm, uplifting feeling you get when you see someone going out of their way to help other people? You might get goosebumps or even a tear in your eye, and something inside you might make you want to be like them, support others and try to be a better person.

That feeling isn't happiness, awe or pride. It’s not even love, although it is related. Until recently, that feeling didn't have a name in English. Now, it is known as “moral elevation,” a unique emotion linked with trust, compassion and a desire to help others.

Ryals’ Teaching, Research and Service Earns Her Presidential Chair in Climate Change

Professor has made campus history by being named Ƶ’s inaugural Presidential Chair in Climate Change. The appointment was recommended by her peers and Dean Betsy Dumont from the in recognition of Ryals’ outstanding research, teaching and service.

Award Supports Study of Fish Embryos to Understand Process that Affects Birth Defects

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has given the CAREER award to help her delve into congenital birth defects by looking at the embryonic cells of zebrafish.

Woo is the 32nd researcher from Ƶ to earn a CAREER award.

Findlater First at Ƶ to Join DOE-funded Energy Frontier Research Center

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a greenhouse gas that is contributing to irreversible climate change. Scientists know how to capture CO2, and they know how to transform it into useful molecules and materials.

But that transformation is neither energy nor cost-effective.

Through a prestigious grant from the Department of Energy (DOE), a diverse group of scientists, including a chemist from Ƶ, plan to address that problem by coupling two chemistries which are known to work independently, but don't work well together.

UC Awards $16.4 Million in Grants to Address Climate, Energy and Health

For the first time, Ƶ faculty members from each of the campus’s three schools have been chosen as principal investigators on some of the 21 exciting new projects that are being funded through (MRPI).

In addition, Ƶ researchers are collaborating on 10 of the other projects.

Ƶ-led Research Predicts How Air Cleans Itself

Although climate change is still a very real challenge, the past decades of efforts to reduce the effects of human activities on the atmosphere have been potent enough to have thrown off the models scientists use to understand and forecast the atmosphere’s chemical composition and cleansing capacity.

Researchers Look at Tree Reproduction and Effects of Climate Change Across North America

Professor and collaborators at several other universities are set to conduct a continental-scale analysis of climate change effects on tree reproduction.