Events in October 2024
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SyracuseCoE Research & Technology Forum SyracuseCoE Research & Technology Forum
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October 16, 2024Register today for SyracuseCoE's October Research & Technology Forum, featuring speakers Tom Dunbar and Professor Dacheng Ren. Learn about cutting-edge research on viral transmission dynamics and innovative air sanitization technologies, showcasing solutions to enhance public health and safety in indoor environments.
About the Speakers
Dr. Dacheng Ren received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from University of Connecticut in 2003. After finishing postdoctoral training at Cornell University, he joined Syracuse University in 2006. Currently, he is Stevenson Endowed Professor in the Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering, and Associate Dean for Research in the College of Engineering and Computer Science.
Dr. Ren received an Early Career Translational Research Award in Biomedical Engineering from the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation in 2009 and NSF CAREER award in 2011. He was named the College Technology Educator of the Year by the Technology Alliance of Central New York in 2010. Dr. Ren is also a recipient of the Faculty Excellence Award from the School of Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University in 2014, and Chancellor’s Citation for Faculty Excellence and Scholarly Distinction in 2018. Dr. Ren currently has 79 journal publications with >8,000 citations and an h-index of 42, and 13 issued/pending patents. Dr. Ren has broad research interests in microbial control and the safety of medical devices. His research has been supported by NSF, NIH, EPA, DOE, Wallace H. Coulter Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and industrial sponsors. He is a fellow of American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).
Tom Dunbar founded tomPhyzx, LLC in the summer of 2020 to tackle the urgent air purification challenges posed by the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the resulting COVID-19 pandemic. With a career spanning over two decades, Tom brings a needed expertise in physics and engineering to the field of air sanitization.
Before establishing tomPhyzx, Tom dedicated 22 years to educating future scientists as a Professor of Physics at Corning Community College. His professional journey also includes significant roles as a Development Engineer at Kodak and Westinghouse/IST, where he honed his skills in innovative product development and optical engineering.
Tom holds a master’s degree in Optical Engineering from the University of Rochester and a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and physics from Susquehanna University. His extensive academic and professional background positions him as a leading authority in air purification technologies.
Residing on Keuka Lake in New York's picturesque Finger Lakes region, Tom balances his professional pursuits with a love for fishing and boating.
Register today for SyracuseCoE's October Research & Technology Forum, featuring speakers Tom Dunbar and Professor Dacheng Ren. Learn about cutting-edge research on viral transmission dynamics and innovative air sanitization technologies, showcasing solutions to enhance public health and safety in indoor environments.
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MAE 995 Graduate Seminar: Why Indoor Chemistry Matters MAE 995 Graduate Seminar: Why Indoor Chemistry Matters
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October 25, 2024Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
MAE 995 Graduate Seminar: Why indoor chemistry matters
Speaker: Charles J. Weschler, Ph.D.
Date and time: Friday, October 25th from 12:45 PM – 2:05 PM in Hall of Languages 207
Chemistry occurs in our buildings as well as in our outdoor world. Indoors, certain processes (e.g., surface chemistry) play a larger role while other processes (e.g., photochemistry) become less important. Over the past decade, a number of established atmospheric chemists have brought their tools and knowledge indoors, complementing the efforts of those already focused on indoor environments. Such combined efforts have led to a “growth spurt” in indoor chemistry. Studies from labs across the globe are significantly advancing our understanding of the sources of indoor chemicals, their partitioning among indoor compartments (air, airborne particles, surfaces), and their chemical transformations. The pandemic has brought added attention to indoor environments and the microbes and chemicals to which we are exposed therein. This talk will begin with an overview of indoor chemistry and then summarize recent, and at times surprising, findings.
About the Speaker:
After completing his Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of Chicago, Dr. Weschler did postdoctoral studies with Prof. Fred Basolo at Northwestern University. In 1975 he joined Bell Laboratories as a research scientist in the Physical Chemistry Division. He conducted research at Bell Labs and its successor institutions until 2001, being named a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (1986). In 2001 he transitioned from Bellcore/Telcordia to faculty positions at the Environmental & Occupational Health Science Institute, Rutgers University, and the International Centre for Indoor Environment and Energy, Technical University of Denmark. He has continued in those positions through the present. In 2010 he joined the faculty of the Building Science department at Tsinghua University (Beijing) as an ongoing Visiting Professor. He is also an Adjunct Professor in the Rutgers School of Public Health. He has been a member of four committees for the National Academy of Sciences, and from 1999-2005 he served on the US EPA’s Science Advisory Board. More recently (2012-2023) he was an advisor for the Sloan Foundation’s Chemistry of Indoor Environments program. He was elected to the International Academy of Indoor Air Sciences in 1999 and received the Pettenkofer Award, its highest honor, in 2014. He has been conferred the 2017 Haagen-Smit Prize from Atmospheric Environment; “Distinguished Visiting Professor” at Tsinghua University (2018); received an honorary doctorate (“Doctor Technices Honoris Causa”) from the Technical University of Denmark (2018); and was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2020, AAAS). He has an h-index of 78 with over 19,500 citations (Web of Science) and 88 with over 27,000 citations (Google Scholar).
207 Hall of Languages