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The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø is proud to announce that 56 faculty and researchers who completed their work while at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø have been named on the Highly Cited Researchers 2025 list from Clarivate.
A team led by researchers at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø compared three potential strategies for reducing fine particulate matter pollution disparities across the contiguous U.S.
A team of researchers at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø and UC Berkeley has found that housing discrimination practices dating from the 1930s still drive air pollution disparities in hundreds of American cities today.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers investigated disparities in exposure to six major air pollutants in 1990, 2000 and 2010 by comparing models of air pollution levels to census data. While overall pollutant concentrations have decreased since 1990, people of color are still more likely to be exposed to all six pollutants than white people, regardless of income level, across the continental United States.
A ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø class that normally is about air pollution has pivoted to focus on another airborne health hazard — coronavirus aerosols. As part of the class project, students are designing and building air purifiers and testing how effective they are.
A new study from researchers at multiple universities, including the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, shows that exposure disparities among people of color and white people are driven by nearly all, rather than only a few, emission source types.
Using air quality data from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency monitors across the U.S., a ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø-led team looked for changes in two common pollutants over the course of 2020.
A ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø study abroad program empowers students from all disciplines to apply their skills to real-life problems.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers have found that air pollution from electricity generation emissions in 2014 led to about 16,000 premature deaths in the continental U.S. In many states, the majority of the health impacts came from emissions originating in other states.
Black and Hispanic Americans bear a disproportionate burden from air pollution generated mainly by non-Hispanic white Americans, according to new research from a team led by the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø and the University of Minnesota.
This fall, the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s annual engineering lecture series will feature three College of Engineering faculty whose research is accelerating positive impact here and around the world.
A new nationwide study finds that the U.S. made little progress from 2000 to 2010 in reducing relative disparities between people of color and whites in exposure to harmful air pollution emitted by cars, trucks and other combustion sources.
A study of the the first clean cookstove intervention in India financed through the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism found expected benefits from newer, more “efficient” stoves — based on their performance in lab tests — did not materialize in the field.
To help address the nation’s pressing need for better air quality, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded a research team co-led by a ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø civil engineer a $10 million Air, Climate and Energy (ACE) grant.