Dr. Michael Waring Integrates Indoor Air Pollution Research with STEM Education

Dr. Michael Waring, assistant professor of civil architectural and environmental engineering, is investigating indoor air quality to improve human health while integrating it with his career goal of increasing Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education in the community. Waring will take on the unique approach of integrating the air quality research with a curriculum beginning this month.

The project will launch with Waring leading a team of undergraduate, graduate and high school students in research that will examine Secondary Organic Aerosol (SOA) formation. SOA is airborne particulate matter that forms indoors from ozone reactions with terpenoids, or organic chemicals, emitted by consumer products. The team will analyze how size-distributions of SOA evolve in time over a range of indoor environmental parameters that include the building air exchange rate, temperature and humidity, as well as the magnitude of SOA exposure for Americans. Exposure to particulate matter has been linked to asthma and other inhalation issues. Read more.    

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