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Understanding Clouds for Better Climate Prediction
…evolution, and properties depend on water condensation and freezing mediated by aerosols. The research team will build new experimental instruments to measure the properties of supercooled liquid water and refine…
Does a Healthy Diet Lead to a Healthy Environment?
…agriculture can affect greenhouse gas emissions, nitrogen pollution, and land use, yielding crucial information about the best diet for both human and environmental health. Investigators: Bob Howarth, Laurie Drinkwater, Jennifer…
Bending Agricultural Burning Trajectories in Eastern India
Every fall, open agricultural burning of rice crop residues in northwest India contributes to air pollution spikes with significant public health consequences. In eastern India, crop residue burning is less…
Mary Nichols
…chair of the California Air and Resources Board (CARB), California’s powerful air pollution and climate regulatory agency from 1975-1982 and then from 2007-2020, she led California’s leading battle to cut…
Mary Nichols
…air pollution and climate regulatory agency from 1975-1982 and then from 2007-2020, she led California’s leading battle to cut smog and carbon emissions. Under Nichols’ leadership, CARB enacted the first…
Nikita Agarwal (Food Science & Technology)
…and grape juice industry produces over 70 million tons of grape pomace “waste” annually. This low-cost by-product is a rich source of phenolic acids, which leads to soil pollution when…
A Solar Cell Using Inorganic “Grass”
Silicon solar cells are versatile and reliable, but their high cost has limited the technology’s adoption. This project promises a new low-cost, low-energy technique for creating silicon solar cells. The…
Faculty Leadership
…so strongly in these leadership positions that he committed to a matching challenge to inspire others to endow these critical roles. The full cost of each endowment is $3 million,…
Jianbo Shen
…nutrition and management for improving nutrient/water use efficiency and crop productivity with environmental resilience. He earned his Ph.D. from China Agricultural University; postdoc and the international academic experience were at…
Sara Perl Egendorf
…that these soils provide adequate structure and function to mitigate contaminant exposure and support a wide range of ecosystem services including greenhouse gas sequestration, reduced storm-water runoff, reduced heat island…