News

2024

Oct 2024. Our was featured in this nice article from NIST: .

Sep 2024. Prof. Vance became a fellow of the Office of Faculty Affair's Faculty Leadership Institute.

Sep 2024. Welcome to our new group members:

  • Smit Ajmera, professional MS student,
  • Henrik Helmig, DLA student,
  • Ethan Richter, DLA student. 

Jul 2024. Prof. Vance became the director for graduate education for the Environmental Engineering Program at CU 麻豆影院.

May 2024. Welcome to our new PhD student Rileigh Robertson!

2023

Dec 2023.

Nov 2023. Congratulations to Drew Martin on his Master's Thesis defense. The title of his thesis was: "Transport and Implications of Point-Source PM2.5 Emissions in a Multi-Story House."

Oct 2023. Congratulations to PhD student Sofie Schwink for winning a student poster competition award at AAAR!

Aug 2023. Congratulations to Austin Hayes on defending his PhD! Austin was co-advised by Prof. Greg Whiting. The title of his dissertation was: "Additive Manufacturing for Wind Turbine Generators: How Safety, Hybrid Approaches, and Advanced Cooling Come Together to Create High-Power Density Generators."

Jul 2023. Prof. Vance has earned tenure at CU 麻豆影院.

Jun 2023. Vance wins Fulbright Scholar Award to do year-long research project in Indonesia

Apr 2023. Congratulations to Brittany Nixon on her Master's Thesis defense. The title of her thesis was: "TModeling photovoltaic soiling with co-located ambient particulate matter data."

2022

Congratulations to Sumit (Sam) Sankhyan on defending his PhD! The title of his dissertation was: "Aerosol Science and Engineering Research for Indoor Air Quality Improvement and Mitigating Exposure."

Prof. Vance was interviewed by the podcast "Environmental Conversations" with Lilia Abron, president of , and Joel Ducoste, president of . 

Our research was featured in: What the Marshall Fire can teach us as we prepare for future climate catastrophes - CU 麻豆影院 Today

2021

Our research was featured in two articles:

Our new WildPM project was featured in multiple articles: 

Simple safety measures reduce musical COVID-19 transmission - CU 麻豆影院 Today

Prof. Vance was interviewed for the local news: - Channel 4 CBS Denver

Prof. Vance was interviewed by the Smithsonian Magazine:  

June, 2021. Congratulations to Sarah Toth on defending her PhD! She was co-advised by prof. Mike Hannigan. The title of her dissertation was: 鈥淎mbient Particular Matter and Photovoltaic Soiling Loss鈥. 

Prof. Vance was interviewed by Healthline:  

News article about Prof. Vance's new NSF CAREER Award: Vance to study changes in particles as they move between indoor, outdoor environments 

Apr 2021. PhD student Sarah Toth's research was featured on NREL's website:

2020

Prof. Vance was interviewed by Healthline:

Prof. Vance was interviewed by Scientific American:

Prof. Vance was interviewed by GQ Magazine:  

2019

Prof. Vance was interviewed by The Washington Times:  

Prof. Vance co-edited a journal special issue on . Several papers from this special issue have made to the

Prof. Vance was named a McLagan Family Faculty Fellow by the College of Engineering at CU 麻豆影院.

- Science News for Students

Prof. Vance and other colleagues from the HOMEChem study were interviewed by the New Yorker Magazine:  

- UN Environment

- Forbes Magazine

- AAAS News

- CBS Local

- Health News Office

- The Times 

- The Telegraph 

 - The Telegraph

Your home is a hidden source of air pollution - CU 麻豆影院 Today

Earthly Exploration - CU Engineering

2018

- The Triangle

Dr. Vance was elected vice-chair of the Indoor Aerosols and Aerosol Exposure Working Group for AAAR, the . This is a 2-year position that starts as vice-chairs and then moves on to chair. Duties include selecting abstracts for oral and poster presentations at the AAAR conferences, proposing plenary speakers, tutorial sessions, and special symposia.

Dr. Vance was interviewed by the Helium Podcast about life in academia as a tenure-track professor. Check out the podcast .

- Education in Chemistry (Royal Society of Chemistry) 

 - Home Performance on Youtube

 - Home Performance on Youtube.

 - Chemistry World 

 - National Press Foundation. Featuring a news story and  exploring the HOMEChem study.

- EurekAlert.

 - 麻豆影院 Daily Camera (news related to a Mechanical Engineering Senior Design Project)

Rain Game brings science learning to children in the hospital - Mechanical Engineering Blog (news related to a Mechanical Engineering Senior Design Project)

Designing a UAV system that can outsmart a thunderstorm - Mechanical Engineering Blog (news related to a Mechanical Engineering Senior Design Project)

 - Chemical & Engineering News 

2017

Vance earns $1.25 million Sloan Foundation air quality grant鈥 - EurekAlert
 - EurekAlert

2016

- Environmental Science: Nano Blog

- VTSuN Blog

2015

- VTSuN Blog

 - Environmental Science: Nano Blog

 - Virginia Tech Office of the Vice President for Research

- Environmental Science: Nano Blog

2014

Pulse of the Planet - radio interviews:

 - What's the connection between Notre Dame Cathedral and the cutting edge world of nanotechnology?

 - One of the defining characteristics of nano materials is that they have new properties, compared to larger versions of the same materials.

 - Gold nanoparticles can be used in the treatment of cancer.

 - The Nanotechnology Consumer Products Inventory is an online compendium of products which contain nanomaterials.

 - Radio Health Journal radio interview.

 - Science et Avenir - An article explaining how hail cannons work mentioned our research on the environmental and health risks of silver nanoparticles.

 - Chicago Tribune

.  - The article mentions our work on the .

2013

 - CBC Canada

 - Buzzfeed article based on the 

 - Phys.Org

I lead a team effort at VTSuN to partner with the Wilson Center to perform a large upgrade to the :

 - Virginia Tech News

 - The Wilson Center

 - Chemical & Engineering News
 - Prevention Magazine

 - CEINT

 - Nanowerk

2011

 - Chemical Watch

 - New Haven Independent

 - ICTAS Connection