2020 News
Outstanding Graduate Student for 2020-2021
Congratulations to Ali Hossein Mardi for being named the Outstanding Graduate Student for 2020-2021 for the Environmental Engineering Program.
Dec 2020
Podcast episode entitled “Air and Shield”
JPL’s Leslie Mullen interviewed Armin for the “On a Mission” podcast episode entitled “Air and Shield”. Armin talks about airborne aerosol research and the ACTIVATE mission:
Nov 2020
New member to join the NASA Student Airborne Research Program (SARP)
Eva-Lou Edwards will join the NASA Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) this coming summer as a mentor for undergraduate students.
Nov 2020
Sorooshian On Team Working to Develop Medical Masks During COVID-19
Sorooshian alongside researchers in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering, and the Department of Medicine work together to 3D print medical masks for local hospitals in need of personal protective equipment. Due to high demand of masks, Sorooshian and others rush to find efficient and safe ways to make more masks for our essential health care workers.
Apr 2020
Sorooshian Receives Atmospheric Sciences Ascent Award
CHEE professor Armin Sorooshian received the 2019 Atmospheric Sciences Ascent Award during the American Geophysical Union’s 2019 Fall Meeting because of his work in NASA airborne missions, the Differential Aerosol Sizing and Hygroscopicity Spectrometer Probe, and how clouds redistribute particles and modify aerosol composition.
Apr 2020
Sorooshian Leads NASA Mission On Marine Clouds
Sorooshian is leading a $30 million NASA mission called Aerosol Cloud Meteorology Interactions Over the Western Atlantic Experiment (ACTIVATE) to help climate and weather modelers better understand how aerosol particles and meteorological processes affect cloud properties. Sorooshian and his team fly over the Atlantic Ocean to try and characterize how marine boundary layer clouds affect the meteorological environment.
Apr 2020
