In the News

The Year 2024

  • At the beginning of this year,  Nahin Ferdousi-Rokib, returned from a fantastic internship and mentorship experience at PNNL.  Then in February,  Nahin Ferdousi-Rokib,  successfullly passed their thesis proposal.
  • In January,  our research group presented the following papers at the American Meterological Society Conference in Baltimore, MD.   It was wonderful to connect with so many scientists, researchers, and communicators in the AMS space.
  • Two new doctroal students,  Brooklynn Harris and Steph Jacoby,  joined the Environmental Aerosol Research Laboratory (EARL) and have officially started their research endeavors!  We are soooo excited to be a part of your professional journeys.

The Year 2023

Fall 2022

Spring/Summer 2022

  • Congratulations to Patricia!  Who defended in April and graduated in May! Her thesis is available on the drum and several of those chapters are published.
  • We had wonderful group presentations of our research April 22nd at the first ever UMD Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering showcase.   Chun-Ning gave an oral presentation on her published work regarding the hygroscopicity of biodegradable polymers.   Dewansh discussed his work on uric acid particles and Kotiba discussed  insoluble biomass burning particles. and Reese discussed her soon to be published work on Legionella’s disease.   It should be mentioned that Kotiba won 1st Place Poster in the category Graduate Poster Competition. Congratulations, Kotiba!
  • Check out Kotiba’s beautiful front page cover artwork in the Journal Environmental Science: Atmospheres.

Fall 2021

 

Spring 2021

  • It has been such a busy Spring Semester! We have had a lot to celebrate and research has definitely picked up speed.  To end the year, we had a fun socially distanced outdoor lunch!  It was great to see everyone in one place vis-a-vis.
  • Lastly, we must say goodbye to Ian.  Ian has been with us for the past 3 years and defended his MS Thesis April 23rd titled “Mixed Organic Surfactant Effects on Cloud Condensation Nuclei”.  The committee was impressed by quality of the experimental and  modelling work.  Well done, Ian!
  • Patricia will also be a NOAA graduate research Summer Intern with the William M. Lapenta NOAA Internship Program!
  • Reese, an undergraduate researcher, was recently accepted as a NOAA Hollings Scholar. We are soooo proud of Reese!  A story on her current research experiences and fellowship can be found here: https://chbe.umd.edu/news/story/cheme-undergrad-wins-2021-hollings-scholarship
  • In April, Patricia entered the UMD 3 Minute Thesis and Graduate Research Competition and was a Campus Level Winner!  You can check out her winning video here: https://youtu.be/WmCQNY8fC3c   Such a Great presentation Patricia!
  • the NSF PEARLS team is now accepting our first Year 1 applications for the NSF PEARLS Program:  Additional Details can be found on our website: https://agnr.umd.edu/student-opportunities/pearls .
  • In addition, the PEARLS team was honored with the 2021 Take Nature Black Environmental Champions Award from the Audobon Naturalist Society.  Details on the ceremony and a story on the event can be found here: https://eng.umd.edu/news/story/todayrsquos-trailblazers-to-be-honored-as-2021-taking-nature-black-environmental-champions
  • Patricia presented our collaborative work at the 2021 Spring Meeting of the American Chemical Society
  • Early on in the semester, Kanishk and Chun-Ning both completed their PhD proposals with flying colors! Big Congratulations to both!

Fall 2020

Spring  2020

  • Our new paper regarding tandem particle measurements has been published in Aerosol Science and Technology.  The Article can be found here: https://doi.org/10.1080/02786826.2020.1763248
  • On Monday, April 27th,  Patricia advanced to doctoral candidacy.  Her Zoom Proposal was well-received and her committee encouraged her to the pursue and complete her proposed thesis dissertation entitled “In-Situ Measurements of Optical, Physical, and Chemical Properties of Atmospheric Aerosols”.  Congratulations!
  • Our newest group member, Dewansh Rastogi will be assisting fellow researchers lead by Dr. Milton in the UMD School of Public Health into COVID19 research in droplets and sneezes.  UMD COVID19 Seeded Research 

December 2019

  • On Thursday December 12th, the EARL Research group celebrated another successful semester. In addition, we said a special farewell to our visiting MS research thesis exchange student, Rahaf, from the University College Dublin.
  • On Friday December 6th, we participated in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry’s Graduate Student Organization (GSO) monthly Science Café. The Science Cafes are informal poster sessions that are held on the first Friday of every month during the Fall and Spring semesters in the Chemistry glass lounge (2nd floor in the chemistry building). The aim is to highlight the research of groups in Chemistry and the research of collaborators from other departments (Chemical Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, Physics, Materials Science, Atmospheric Sciences, etc). Members from the group (left to right. Patricia, Qi, Rahaf) were in attendance and presented our recent collaborative research about Black Carbon and Martian Dust.

April 2019

March 2019

December 2018

  • Farima Barati successfully defends MS Thesis entitled “Hygroscopicity of cholesterol in various solvents”
  • Patrick Roth successfully defends PhD Thesis entitled “Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation from Gasoline Direct Injection Vehicles: The Impact of Exhaust After-Treatment and Fuel Composition”
  • American Geophysical Union Press Field Trip to Brandywine: Community Environmental Justice in Brandywine, Maryland

August 2018

June 2018

  • BS/MS Student: Francis Oyebanjo Wins Bridge to Doctorate Award. 

April 2018

February 2018