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The next Food for Thought: Teaching Effectiveness lunch topic is “TA training,” featuring guest speaker Prof. Deborah Tihanyi (ISTEP). Lunch provided. ____________________________ Deborah Tihanyi has been teaching with the Engineering Communication Program (ECP) since 2001 and is currently an Associate Professor, Teaching Stream. She has taught across all departments in the Faculty of Applied Science […]

Christopher Y. Lim, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto Abstract The chemistry of organic aerosol (OA) and indoor films is immensely complex due to the vast number of organic compounds present in the air and on surfaces and their complex reaction pathways. Laboratory experiments have generally focused on the initial formation of OA […]

Dr. Laura de Vito, Research Fellow, Air Quality Management Resource Centre, Faculty of Environment and Technology, University of the West of England Despite many years of efforts to reduce air pollution to safe ambient concentrations, levels of several pollutants still contravene health-based guidelines across many European cities and around the world. During this seminar I will draw […]

Professor Chris Cappa Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California, Davis An important process through which atmospheric particles exert an influence on regional and global climate is the absorption of solar radiation. Three classes of particles contribute most of the absorption: black carbon (BC), absorbing organic carbon (aka “brown” carbon, or BrC) and […]