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Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering
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Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering
Professional Service
- AIChE Environmental Division.
Chair.
01/01/2023 - 12/31/2023
- AIChE.
Vice Chair.
01/01/2020 - 12/31/2022
- Journal of Aerosol Science.
Guest Editor.
10/15/2019 - present
- AAAR.
Associate Newsletter Editor.
09/30/2019 - present
- AIChE.
Environmental Division, Director
.
02/2019 - present
- Utah Science for Solutions.
Role: organizer.
Meeting Organizing Committee.
01/01/2019 - present
- Air Quality Policy Board.
Member.
01/01/2019 - present
- AIChE.
Environmental Division, Area Chair.
11/2018 - present
- AAAR .
Role: Lead.
Health Effects Working Group .
09/18/2018 - 10/15/2019
- Utah Air Quality Policy Board.
Role: Chair.
Chair.
07/01/2017 - 06/30/2019
- Utah Science for Solutions Annual Meeting.
Co-organizer.
12/01/2016 - present
- AIChE .
Session Chair.
11/16/2016 - present
- Sate Air Quality Board.
Role: Vice Chair.
Air Quality Board.
05/2009 - 05/2017
Honors & Awards
- Women in Science Incentive Prize.
The Story Exchange,
12/08/2022
- Early Career Award.
AIChE Environmental Division,
11/11/2019
- William H. Corcoran Award for the best paper in Chemical Engineering Education in 2018 .
ASEE,
06/01/2019
- Air Quality Person of the Year.
UCAIR,
02/2018
Internal Service
- Director of Graduate Studies.
Director,
07/01/2023 - present.
Department service.
- VPR NSF asst professor cohort.
mentor,
08/15/2022 - 05/15/2024.
University service.
- Organized a mock NSF panel for all asst. professors who were submitting NSF CAREER proposals.
Lead,
05/01/2022 - 07/15/2022.
Department service.
- ChE Faculty Search Committee.
10/01/2019 - 06/30/2022.
Department service.
- Graduate Committee.
09/02/2019 - present.
Department service.
- Host reception for the grad student fly in.
02/2019 - 02/2021.
Department service.
- Search Committee, Pharmacology.
member,
08/2018 - present.
Other service.
- Women in Chemical Engineering and Allies.
Faculty Mentor,
01/2018 - present.
Department service.
- New maker space lab.
09/01/2016 - 12/31/2017.
Department service.
- New Faculty Search Committee.
Member,
09/2015 - 08/2016.
Department service.
- Associate Director, Program for Air Quality Health & Society.
01/01/2014 - present.
University service.
Community Partnership
- Breathe Utah Board.
07/01/2022 - 06/30/2026
- Envision Utah - Air Quality Action Team.
12/01/2017 - 12/31/2020
- Breathe Utah.
04/01/2016 - 06/30/2022
- Salt Lake City Air Quality Advisory Committee.
12/01/2015 - present
Affiliations
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Chemical Engineering
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Research Assistant Professor,
02/15/2015 - 08/15/2015
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Program for Air Quality, Health and Society
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Associate Director,
01/01/2013 - present
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Chemical Engineering
(ChE),
Research Associate,
01/2012 - 02/2015
Outreach
- HiGear Camp.
06/11/2019 - present
- Outreach visits to the following high schools: East, West, SLCSE, Jordan, AMES for the AirU project.
01/01/2017 - present
- November, 18, 2106 – Outreach visit to AMES high school with air-quality sensor teaching module.
11/18/2016 - present
- Keynote speaker at local chapter of the AWMA annual dinner.
09/13/2016 - present
- Annual HiGear camp for female high school students interested in Chemical Engineering
.
06/14/2016 - present
In the Media
- The National. The Great Salt Lake is becoming too salty to support life. 08/21/2023.
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/dust...
- KUER: New gravel operations proposed for Parley’s Canyon. 07/23/2023.
- The StoryExchange (national), Meet the Winners of the 2023 Women in Science Innovation Prize. 12/12/2022.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&so...
- The Story Exchange "Monitoring the Risks of Salt Lake Valley’s Dust". 12/04/2022.
https://thestoryexchange.org/kerry-kelly-monitorin...
- LocalNews Today: Utah, October 26, 2022. The Salt Lake County Health Department releases a new air quality map as Utah enters inversion season. 10/26/2022.
- CityChats with Joyce (national). June 14, 2022 Breathing easier, air quality is key. 06/14/2022.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txZAUCkrZXo
- NBC News (national), Historic fires create dangerous air quality. 07/26/2021.
https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/historic-climate...
- NBC News (national), July 26, 2021, Historic fires create dangerous air quality. 07/26/2021.
https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/historic-climate...
- KSL Noon News, What you can do about air quality. 02/03/2021.
- KSL Evening News, Snowblowers and air quality. 02/03/2021.
- Fox13 Place, Talking about the inversion and what we can do. 01/22/2021.
- Nursing News, Center of excellence for exposure in health informatics exploring new health frontiers. 01/05/2021.
- Deseret News, The world has an idling problem – Utah researchers are trying to fix it. 09/14/2020.
- KSL TV, Utah scientists receive grant to test real-time air pollution warning system. 09/02/2020.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioG0h5ZmJaw
- KSL Radio, Pollution displays are coming to school drop-off zones.
09/01/2020.
- KUED, Insight Panel Discussion: Air Quality, Utah, and COVID. 07/03/2020.
- Deseret News, Study: Minority students in Salt Lake County schools breathe dirtier air. 05/20/2020.
- Catalyst Magazine, Citizen scientists take to the air. 02/26/2020.
- Utah DEQ Blog. Is pollution from wood smoke going down? All your burning questions answered. 02/11/2020.
- KSL Studio 5. What you can do to improve air quality. 02/07/2020.
https://studio5.ksl.com/the-biggest-things-you-can...
- KSL News. Woodburning and air quality trends. 02/05/2020.
- Fox13 News. Woodburning restrictions improve air quality. 02/05/2020.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31ZbAc2QXQE
- The air is cleaner for those living at higher, more expensive elevations. 01/20/2020.
https://fox13now.com/2020/01/20/the-air-is-cleaner...
- KCPW Radio. Community curiosity: how accurate are those low-cost sensors? 01/09/2020.
- KSL Radio. December 6, 2019. What can we do about Utah’s bad air? 12/06/2019.
- US News & World Report. June 25, 2019 Utah faces unique air quality challenges. 06/25/2019.
- KUER. June 15 ,2019 Landfill fire and potential health effects. 06/15/2019.
- ABC4. May 9, 2019 The air we breathe in our own homes. 05/09/2019.
- NSF Science Nation. March 19, 2019. Young citizen scientists assist in Salt Lake City air quality research. 03/19/2019.
- KUTV. Subsidies to reduce emissions may be part of plan for $100 million to improve Utah's air. 12/07/2018.
- RadioActive. Air Quality Sensing and Women in Science. 08/01/2018.
- Mother Jones. These New Air Sensors Could Revolutionize Air Pollution Regulation. 07/15/2018.
- Wired.com. Cheap, Portable Sensors Are Democratizing Air-Quality Data. 07/11/2018.
- National Public Radio, Central California. January 23, 2018. What’s In Your Air? New Low-Cost Devices Monitor Valley Air Pollution
. 01/23/2018.
- KRCL. November 2, 2017. KRCL Radioactive. Air Quality and You.
11/02/2017.
- KUER. A Smog Museum With Lessons For Utah Today.
10/18/2017.
- The Rod Arquette Show. KNRS 105.9 FM/570 AM. Air Board Requests Governor’s Veto.
03/07/2017.
- Salt Lake Tribune. Air Board seeks Utah Governor’s Veto for First Time in a Decade.
03/06/2017.
- KUER. chools In Salt Lake Co. Will Help The U Monitor Air Pollution.
02/14/2017.
- US News & World Report. Kids Get Hands-on Education in Air Quality.
02/12/2017.
- Washington Times, Jackson Hole News and Guide, West Plains Daily Quill, Wyoming Eagle, The Daily Progress, Students Get Education in Air Quality by Making Monitors.
02/12/2017.
- US News & World Report. Kids Get Hands-on Education in Air Quality.
02/12/2017.
- Deseret News. East High Students Create Toy-Block Sensors to Detect Pollution.
02/08/2017.
- Deseret News. East High Students Create Toy-Block Sensors to Detect Pollution.
02/08/2017.
- Utah Business. U Engineers Teach High School Students to Build Pollution Sensors from Toy Blocks.
02/07/2017.
- Fox13 News. Students at East High School Got a Hands-on Education Today.
02/07/2017.
- KSL TV. East High Students Create Toy-Block Sensors to Detect Pollution.
02/07/2017.
- KSL Radio. January 17, 2017. Collaborations Help us to Understand our Air Quality.
01/17/2017.
- KSL TV. January 17, 2017. Strategies to Understand and Improve our Air Quality.
01/17/2017.
- Fox13 News. December 12, 2017. Bad air: what else can Utah and Utahns do?
01/12/2017.
- Powder Magazine. August 5, 2016. Salt Lake City Commits to Renewable Energy.
08/05/2016.
- KSL News. April 28, 2016. CS Students Win Competition with Personal Air Sensor.
04/28/2016.
- Fox13News. April 28, 2016. Students Develop Personal Air Monitoring System.
04/28/2016.
- KUER News. January 14, 2016. New Pollution Network Adds Useful, New Data.
01/14/2016.
- Salt Lake Tribune, Salt Lake City, UT, October 7, 2015. Utah environmentalists to bring DIY rules before air quality board.
10/07/2015.
- Fox13News, Salt Lake City, UT, June 10, 2015. Pollution, hot temperatures create perfect conditions for ozone, DEQ says.
06/10/2015.
- TribTalk. June 4, 2015. Utah’s regional haze plan.
06/04/2015.
- KSL News. January 26, 2015. Uneasy breathing: Leaders searching for air clearing solutions.
02/26/2015.
- University of Utah Health Feed. February 24, 2015. Red lights are air pollution hot spots.
02/24/2015.
- ABC4 News. January 26, 2015. What YOU can do about the inversion.
01/26/2015.
- Fox13 News. January 17, 2015. Video game allows students to simulate air quality solutions in Utah.
01/17/2015.
- University Utah Scope Radio. January 15, 2015. New game helps you understand how complicated Utah air quality issues really are.
01/15/2015.
- University Utah Scope Radio. January 15, 2015. The challenges of making an educational game.
01/15/2015.
- University of Utah Chronicle. January 15, 2015. Researchers unite to discuss inversion solutions.
01/15/2015.
- PhysOrg. January 14, 2015. It's game on for air quality.
01/14/2015.
- KSL. January 14, 2015. Video game app teaches teens about air pollution.
01/14/2015.
- Deseret News. January 13, 2015. Uneasy breathing: Leaders searching for air clearing solutions.
01/13/2015.
- KUER. January 12, 2015. Conversation on Air Pollution Heats Up.
01/12/2015.