This week, the McNeill Group has been studying the impact of a prototype Far-UV disinfection device on air quality in an office. UV lamps, used for disinfecting surfaces and air,…
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The McNeill Group tradition of twice yearly dinners was put on pause from 2020 until now. We improvised with zoom get togethers and picnics in Riverside Park, but they can’t…
Masters student John Almazan, and undergraduates Maria Di Landro, Sandhya Sethuraman, and Shengwei Dai presented their results on laboratory studies of mask filtration efficiency today in group meeting. They followed…
We’re very happy to announce the publication of our latest manuscript, Room-level Ventilation in Schools and Universities, in the open access journal Atmospheric Environment X. Good ventilation is one of…
We’re happy to announce the publication of a new McNeill Group paper. Do Young Maeng’s new experimental kinetic data on the hydrolysis of important indoor pollutants BBzP, BP, DEHA, and…
Han Huynh, McNeill Group PhD candidate, successfully defended her thesis on August 25, 2021. Han will be joining Jon Abbatt’s group at the University of Toronto for a postdoc. Congratulations…
We are very happy to announce the publication of a new manuscript we worked on in collaboration with Dr. Sarah Petters, Prof. Jason Surratt, Prof. Barbara Turpin, and others at…
Forwood Wiser, first year Columbia Chemical Engineering PhD student, has joined the McNeill group. Woods graduated from the University of Chicago in 2020 with a Bachelor’s degree in Physics. He…
Prof. McNeill and the McNeill group’s experience with lab reopening following the COVID-19 shutdown were featured in a recent article and photoessay in Columbia News. The experiences of my group…
Prof. McNeill published an editorial in ACS Earth and Space Chemistry in April that touches on COVID-19, its airborne transmission, the influence of pandemic-related shutdowns on air quality, and possible…