NEws and events

 

ACT Lab member Michael Walker and partner Alexa welcomed their daughter Amelia Grace. Congratulations! And a kind welcome to the newest ACT Lab extended family member.

Audrey Dang successfully defended her PhD dissertation on Nov. 17, 2023. Congratulations Dr. Dang!

Tyler Cargill and Jhao-Hong Chen hit the road with MOIRA in Louisville, KY to map neighborhood-scale VOCs!

ACT Lab member Audrey Dang and partner Christopher welcomed their daughter Edith on April 15, 2023. Congratulations! And a kind welcome to the newest ACT Lab extended family member. You’ll love Earth Edith, can be scary, but mostly pretty cool…well not in terms of temperature trends, but amazement-wise.

Karol Cysneiros de Carvalho shares her about her field work experience in wintertime Alaska as part of the Alaskan Layered Pollution and Chemical Analysis (ALPACA) 2022 study.

Mitigating environmental impact of herbicides (collaboration with Prof. Kim Parker at WashU)

Check out this New York Times story on how masks work to collect particles (Audrey Dang and Brent Williams served as consultants)

Williams is signatory of letter to WHO regarding COVID transmission by aerosol - (discussed by NYTimes, CBS, considered by WHO to update guidance, and others to consider precautions against indoor exposure by aerosols)

St. Louis Public Radio - COVID-19 Response - Mask Testing

EECE Seminar - COVID19 Panel Discussion - April 2020 - COVID-19 Response

WashU News Article - COVID-19 Response

EECE News Article - COVID-19 Response

Alaska Air Quality Study

Congratulations to Dr. Claire Fortenberry for successfully defending her PhD dissertation! Cool tribute to Claire from WashU Engineering here.

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ACT Lab gathering - Fall 2019

ACT Lab undergraduate researcher Sydney Hornitschek presents her work, “3-D printed components in instrumentation and method development for air quality measurements” at the McKelvey School of Engineering STEM Poster Palooza, summer 2019. Sydney was advised by PhD student Audrey Dang. Her poster was awarded 3rd place in the field of 60 undergraduate posters. See press announcement here.

 

Chris Oxford participates in his PhD hooding ceremony, Spring 2019.

 

ACT Lab undergraduate researcher Jazmin Simpkins presents her work, "E-Cig aerosols and their implications on human health" at the EECE Summer Poster Session (July, 2018).  Jazmin is a student at Harvard University and is participating in the Washington University Summer Engineering Fellowship (WUSEF) program.

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ACT Lab undergraduate researcher Fengbo (Bob) Zhao presents his work, "Designing positive matrix factorization and mass spectral analysis tools" at the EECE Summer Poster Session (July, 2018).  Bob is a WashU student participating in the InCEES Summer Internship program.

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ACT Lab undergraduate researcher Skyler Simon presents her work, "Seasonal changes in organic aerosol composition in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia" at the EECE Summer Poster Session (July, 2018).  Skyler is a WashU student participating in research through a WashU Summer Undergraduate Research Award (SURA).

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Celebrating successful setup during the ACRONIM2 research study of indoor/outdoor air exchange and chemistry, summer 2018.

Credits:

All the grad, undergrad, and postdoc crew for their great efforts to make the project successful.

Prof. Glenn Morrison for the homemade hooch

Prof. Williams’ family for dedicating patience to the cause

 
 
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ACT Lab undergraduate researcher Michelle Molina (right) presents her work, "Chemical composition of electronic cigarette liquids and aerosols" at the WashU Undergrad Research Symposium (October, 2017).  Also present for the symposium is proud graduate mentor Claire Fortenberry (left).

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ACT Lab undergraduate researcher Riley Martell (left) presents her work, "Development and field deployment of the Volatility and Polarity Aerosol Mass Spectrometer" at the WashU Undergrad Research Symposium (October, 2017).  Also present for the symposium is proud graduate mentor Michael Walker (right).

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ACT Lab undergraduate researcher Skyler Simon (right) presents her work, "Chemical characterization of biomass burning organic aerosol collected above and below forest canopy" at the WashU Undergrad Research Symposium (October, 2017).  Also present for the symposium is proud graduate mentor Audrey Dang (left).

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ACT Lab members Michael Walker and Riley Martell showed their superhero skills as they deployed the Volatility And Polarity Separator (VAPS) instrument to the Jefferson St. air quality monitoring station in Atlanta, GA during the summer of 2017.  They also operated the instrument in a laboratory study of secondary organic aerosol production at Georgia Tech.  Both studies were in collaboration with the research group of Prof. Sally Ng at Georgia Tech.

Beyond Boundaries gives students, faculty, space to experiment (https://source.wustl.edu/2018/01/beyond-boundaries-gives-students-faculty-space-experiment/)

Engineers work to fight pollution at home, globally (https://source.wustl.edu/2017/08/engineers-work-fight-pollution-home-globally/)

INCEES video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fry5maaF9q4&feature=youtu.be)

Recreating wildfires (https://engineering.wustl.edu/news/Pages/Recreating-wildfires.aspx)

Earth’s Future: Causes and consequences of climate change (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i--JvK_qEqc)

Chemical emitted by trees can impact St. Louis’ ozone levels (http://engineering.wustl.edu/news/Pages/Chemical-emitted-by-trees-can-impact-St--Louis%E2%80%99-ozone-levels.aspx)

Williams to study airborne gases, particles to determine sources of origin(https://engineering.wustl.edu/news/Pages/Williams-to-study-airborne-gases,-particles-to-determine-sources-of-origin.aspx)

Headed in the right direction with carbon emission cuts (http://washuengineers.tumblr.com/post/126425962391/headed-in-the-right-direction-with-carbon-emission)

S&T researcher to study how window opening affects indoor air quality (http://news.mst.edu/2015/02/st-researcher-to-study-how-window-opening-effects-indoor-air-quality/)

How does climate change impact you? (http://engineering.wustl.edu/our-school/leadership/offices/marketing-communications/magazine/Pages/climate-change.aspx)

ISP honors eight faculty fellows (http://schoolpartnership.wustl.edu/2015/11/isp-honors-eight-faculty-fellows/)

Peat fire emissions may shed light on climate change (https://engineering.wustl.edu/news/Pages/Peat-fire-emissions-may-shed-light-on-climate-change.aspx)

Listening to the land (http://engineering.wustl.edu/news/Pages/Listening-to-the-land%E2%80%8B.aspx)

Rajan Chakrabarty receives $600,000 grant award (http://eece.wustl.edu/aboutthedepartment/pages/news-story.aspx?news=600)

Environmental engineers to study clean air, water, energy with NSF grants(http://eece.wustl.edu/aboutthedepartment/pages/news-story.aspx?news=589&cm_mid=3862407&cm_crmid=c7016342-26a1-e111-945a-1cc1dee89a74&cm_medium=email)

Denotation: Geoengineering - Experts weigh in on the definition and context of a new term.(https://magazine.wustl.edu/2013/october/Pages/Denotation-geoengineering.aspx)

Williams names winner of EECE Faculty Teaching Award (http://eece.wustl.edu/aboutthedepartment/pages/news-story.aspx?news=581)

Lou Diamond Phillips Supports SOAS! (http://soas2013.rutgers.edu/lou-diamond-phillips-supports-soas/)

Global issue and a transdisciplinary challenge: New book sheds light on the energy poor(https://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/25944.aspx)

Williams to study climate change with EPA grant (http://engineering.wustl.edu/news/Pages/Williams-to-study-climate-change-with-EPA-grant.aspx) and (http://eece.wustl.edu/aboutthedepartment/pages/news-story.aspx?news=558)

Fortner and Williams receive National Science Foundation grant (http://eece.wustl.edu/aboutthedepartment/pages/news-story.aspx?news=523)

Atmospheric Chemistry and Technology Laboratory(http://eece.wustl.edu/ContentFiles/PageContent/EECE_newsletter_2013.pdf)

Aerodyne Research Inc. grants subaward to Brent Williams (http://eece.wustl.edu/aboutthedepartment/Pages/news-story.aspx?news=412)

I-CARES career development awards go to Fortner, Williams(http://eece.wustl.edu/ContentFiles/PageContent/EECE_newsletter_2012.pdf)

Engineering welcomes three new professors (http://engineering.wustl.edu/our-school/leadership/offices/marketing-communications/magazine/Documents/Engineering Momentum Spring 2011.pdf)