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…
On April 8, 2020 McNeill Group member William Tsui successfully defended his PhD thesis, entitled “Simulating Aqueous Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation and Cloudwater Chemistry in Gas-Aerosol Model for Mechanism Analysis.”…
The Columbia Chemical Engineering graduate student visit has moved online! On March 27, you can catch Prof. McNeill and McNeill Group students on Zoom for break out sessions and the…
This morning, McNeill Group PhD student Alison Fankhauser successfully defended her PhD, entitled “Formation and Degradation of Secondary Organic Aerosol Material.” Dr. Fankhauser will be going on to a postdoctoral…
A new McNeill Group publication recently appeared in the open access journal Atmosphere. The first author is PhD candidate Will Tsui and this work originated in the PhD thesis of…
The Clean Air Toolbox for Cities is a new initiative at Columbia for solutions-oriented work to improve air quality in cities across the Global South. This initiative involves the collaborative…
We are happy to announce the publication of a collaborative paper led by Dr. Manish Shrivastava of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory: Shrivastava, et al. Urban pollution greatly enhances formation of…
Prof. McNeill was invited to write a perspective article in the inaugural “Big Questions in Chemistry” issue of the new journal from Cell Press, Trends in Chemistry. Her article on…