Mario Molina Celebration and Symposium

A symposium in honor of Prof. Mario Molina will take place next week at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California.  Prof. McNeill and Prof. Kim Prather of UCSD are organizing this event in honor of Mario’s 71st birthday and his many accomplishments, including being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013. Mario’s colleagues and former students will be coming from all around the world to celebrate with Mario. Click here for more about the event.

Mario was Prof. McNeill’s Ph.D. advisor at MIT.  Fun fact: in the picture to the left, he is posing with the Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometer she used for the experiments described in the following papers:

“Hydrogen Chloride-induced Surface Disordering on Ice,” VF McNeill, T Loerting, FM Geiger, BL Trout, MJ Molina. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 103 (25) 9422-9427 (2006). link to paper

“The Interaction of Hydrogen Chloride with Ice Surfaces: The Effects of Grain Size, Surface Roughness, and Surface Disorder,” VF McNeill, T Loerting, FM Geiger, BL Trout, LT Molina, MJ Molina. J. Phys. Chem. A, 111, 6274-6284 (2007). link to paper