2024 Award Winner’s Summary
Susanne V. Hering Award
Recognizes outstanding contributions to aerosol science with a special emphasis on work that has had a significant impact on public health, the built environment, or the global ecosystem.
Chang-Yu (CY) Wu
Sheldon K. Friedlander Award
Recognizes an outstanding dissertation by an individual who has earned a doctoral degree. The dissertation can be in any discipline in the physical, biomedical or engineering sciences but has to be in the field of aerosol science and technology.
Christopher Kenseth
Benjamin Y. H. Liu Award
Recognizes outstanding contributions to aerosol instrumentation and experimental techniques that have significantly advanced the science and technology of aerosols.
Chuji Wang
David Sinclair Award
Recognizes sustained excellence in aerosol research and technology by an established scientist still active in their career. The individual’s research must have a lasting impact in aerosol science.
Athanasios (Thanos) Nenes
Kenneth T. Whitby Award
Recognizes outstanding technical contributions to aerosol science and technology by a young scientist.
Bryan Bzdek
Thomas T. Mercer Joint Prize
Recognizes excellence in the areas of pharmaceutical aerosols and inhalable materials.
Ronan MacLaughlin
Aerosol Science & Technology Outstanding Publication Award
This award is bestowed annually to one article published in AS&T without regard to publication date. The award recognizes articles that have had a significant impact on the field.
Equations Governing Single and Tandem DMA Configurations and a New Lognormal Approximation to the Transfer Function”, Aerosol Science and Technology, 42(6), 421–432 (2008).
Pete McMurray and Mark Stolzenburg
AS&T Outstanding Reviewer Awards
William G. Lindsley, Kabir Rishi, Joseph Varghese Puthussery, and Georgios Kelesidis
Teaching, Mentoring & Training Award
Recognizes excellence in supporting students, postdocs, research scientists, and early career scientists and in creating an inclusive environment.
Akua Asa-Awuku
Juan Fernandez de la Mora Prize
Awards a Half-Mini DMA to a researcher participating in the study of nanometer particles at high resolution.
Will Cantrell and Claudio Mazzoleni
View all 2024 award winners here.
2024 Fellows
Paul DeMott, Colorado State University
V. Faye McNeill, Columbia University
National Academies Inductees
Kimberly A. Prather, University of California San Diego, received the 2024 NAS Award in Chemical Sciences.
Competition Awards
AAAR 2024 Student Poster Competition Winners
Masoud Akbarzadeh, Anita Anosike, Kristen Cramer, Justin Hamlin, Lin Kong, Erin O’Leary, Lucas Rojas Mendoza, Ganesh Subramanian Pavizhakattumadom Saptharishi, Josie Welker, and Wonsik Woo
AAAR 2024 Student Platform Presentation Winners
Jianing Bao, Emily Costa, Shreya Joshi, Gwen Lawson, Hanalei Lewine, Michael Lum, Laura Marie Dahler Heinlein, Nadia Tahsini, Tianchang Xu, and Amira Yassine
Fine Particle Art Competition Winners
Microscopic Scale
1st Place
“TEM Zoo Adventure” by Kayleigh Reilly (University of Michigan, UM), Emily J. Costa (UM), Yao Xiao (UM), Tiantian Zhu (UM), Xena Mansoura (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, PNNL), Zezhen Cheng (PNNL), Nurun Nahar (PNNL), Swarup China (PNNL), Drew R. Gentner (Yale), Rachel E. O’Brien (UM), and Andrew P. Ault (UM)
2nd Place
“Soot Formed At High Temperature And Pressure” by Allison Aiken, Kimberly Wurth, Rachel Huber, Madeline Stricklin, James Lee, and Ryan Farley of Los Alamos National Laboratory
3rd Place
“A Hidden World in a Particle” by Ziying Lei (University of Tennessee), Sarah Brooks (Texas A&M University, TAMU), Seth Thompson (TAMU), Bo Chen (TAMU), Brianna H. Matthews (TAMU), Ron Li (TAMU), Anita D. Rapp (TAMU), and Christopher J. Nowotarski (TAMU)
Macroscopic Scale
1st Place
“A Call to Protect Air Quality for a Sustainable Future in Africa” by Oladayo Oladeji (Carnegie Mellon University) and Oluwaseyi Abraham Olayinka (University of Ibadan)
2nd Place
“There’s a Wildfire in My Backyard! Quick, Set Up the MOUDI!!” by Kasey Edwards and Sukriti Kapur of the University of California, Irvine
3rd Place
“New Particle Formation in Lego” by Matthew Goss of the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Video Competition
“Collisions between air molecules and the mean free path of gas” by Dimitris G. Tsalikis (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), Vlasis G. Mavrantzas (U. Patras, Greece), and Sotiris E. Pratsinis (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Career Opportunities Link
Interested in a career in aerosol research? Check out job listings and opportunities here: https://www.aaar.org/resources/career-opportunities/
Key Dates/Reminders
The 2025 Annual Conference will be held in Buffalo, NY, October 13-17, 2025
This Issue’s Newsletter Committee:
Editor | Sarah Petters, University of California, Riverside
Senior Assistant Editor | Lindsay Yee, University of California, Berkeley
Junior Assistant Editor | Qian Zhang, UL Research Institute
Junior Assistant Editor | Robert Nishida, University of Waterloo