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Mark Hernandez's air quality research is being highlight by Chemical and Engineering News.Hernandez is a professor in the Environmental Engineering Program and air quality expert.The work being spotlighted by C&EN, which is a
Mark Hernandez's air quality research is being highlight by Denver 9 News.The work which initially focused on reducing the spread of COVID-19 in Denver Schools during pandemic is now expanding beyond concerns of just infectious diseases and helping
Engineers at ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· kicked off a new project this month that aims to investigate whether improving classroom air quality with air purifiers can help students miss fewer school days. The study comes at a time when millions of students across the
The Washington Post is highlighting ways to keep air quality better indoors.The outlet interviewed Mark Hernandez, who advocates for installing HEPA air cleaners in homes, especially now, with smoke from Canadian wildfires blanketing the
Three years ago this week, Colorado recorded its first known cases of COVID-19. A week later, on March 12, ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· announced its first positive case and quickly shifted to fully remote classes. Meanwhile, researchers at CU and universities
Recent research from ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· may have finally revealed why humans tend to get sick from airborne viral diseases more often in drier environments.Published in December in PNAS-Nexus, the study found that airborne particles carrying a
As one of the first interdisciplinary bioaerosol labs established in the U.S., the Environmental Engineering Microbiology and Disinfection Lab at ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· is home to one of the biggest bioaerosol chambers in the country at an academic institution
Thanks to new ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· research, scientists see the impact of flushing the toilet in a whole new light—and now, the world can as well.Using bright green lasers and camera equipment, a team of ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· engineers ran an experiment to reveal how
The classrooms of Barnum Elementary School in Denver echo with the chatter of students and the instruction of teachers. The white, waist-high, curved machine in the corner is quiet as can be.The machine, which looks like a less-complicated R2D2,
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought increased attention to indoor air quality and the effect that ventilation has on reducing disease transmission in indoor spaces. A recent infrastructure survey reported that of the nearly 100,000 operating public