Included in Issue: Winter 2025

Miscellaneous

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