Air Quality
- In a Perspectives piece publishing in Science on May 14, Professor Shelly Miller and others call for a 鈥減aradigm shift鈥 in combating airborne pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, demanding universal recognition that respiratory infections can be prevented by improving indoor ventilation systems.
- Professors Shelly Miller and Nina Vance, along with Miller's daughter, Renee Leiden, produced a聽video explaining how the transmission of respiratory infections can occur.
- Public health officials, including mechanical engineering Professor Shelly Miller, urge families to keep celebrations small, avoid mixing households and open the windows.
- A CU-Boulder research team of scientists and musicians seek to find out how musical ensembles around the world can continue to safely perform music together during the pandemic.
- For three years,聽Air Quality Inquiry聽has been reaching聽K-12 students across rural Colorado. This year, Daniel Knight and his team extended the program across the globe to reach Public Lab Mongolia, a nonprofit whose聽mission is to make data available to the Mongolian public.
- Singing indoors, unmasked can swiftly spread COVID-19 via microscopic airborne particles known as aerosols, confirms a new peer-reviewed study of a March choir rehearsal which became one of the nation鈥檚 first superspreading events.
- As students return to campus, a mostly behind-the-scenes team of university staff and scientists has been working to make sure that the air they breathe will be as safe as possible.
- 黑料社区网 will play a major role in a new center, ASPIRE, focused on developing infrastructure and systems that facilitate the widespread adoption of electric vehicles.
- The novel coronavirus may be able to travel from person to person through tiny particles floating in the air, according to a recent letter signed by 239 scientists聽from across the globe.聽
- A paper by Nina Vance discusses the importance of understanding exposure to particulate matter in residences and the health risks that result from exposure.