Congratulations Graduates!
Congratulations to Marisa Gonzalez and Joseph Schlosser for having finished their PhD degrees. Marisa is starting a postdoc at University of Pretoria (South Africa) and Joseph will start as a postdoc through the NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) and will be at NASA Langley Research Center. Also congratulations to Shruti Singh for finishing her MS degree and continuing on to work with HDR Engineering in Tucson.

Eva-Lou Edwards Recognized as an Outstanding TA
Congratulations to Eva-Lou Edwards for being recognized with both the faculty-nominated and student-nominated outstanding Teaching Assistant awards in the Chemical Engineering program.
Students Receive Summer Internship Offers
Kayla McCauley was selected for an internship with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency this summer, while Kira Zeider was chosen for the Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program (NREIP) where she will work at Naval Research Laboratory in Monterey, California.
Miguel Hilario Receives Presentation Award at American Geophysical Union Meeting
Congratulations to Miguel Hilario for receiving the Outstanding Student Presentation Award (OSPA) at the 2021 American Geophysical Union meeting for his poster titled "Particulate Oxalate-to-Sulfate Ratio as an Aqueous Processing Marker: Consistency Across Field Campaigns and Limitations"
One of the group’s former graduates, Taylor Shingler (Ph.D., 2016), was selected to receive NASA’s Early Career Achievement medal. Congratulations Taylor on this well-deserved honor.
Miguel Hilario was selected for two exciting opportunities that will take place in the coming months.
Miguel Hilario was selected for two exciting opportunities that will take place in the coming months. The first is the UA Roots for Resilience Scholarship to work on data science issues in Spring 2022, and the second is the 2022 Graduate Visitor Program at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) where he will work in Boulder, Colorado for the summer.
Eva-Lou Edwards receives funding for her research proposal
Eva-Lou Edwards had her research proposal (“Quantifying and Comparing PFAS in Cloud Water from Three Locations Around the World”) funded by the UA’s Graduate and Professional Student Council to study PFAS compounds in cloud water samples we have collected in recent ONR- and NASA-sponsored field campaigns.
As part of a collaboration between the Sorooshian group and researchers from both the College of Medicine and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, a new paper has been recently published in Frontiers in Medicine comparing the filtration efficiency of different face masks against aerosols. Congratulations to Connor Stahl for being the lead author of this multi-disciplinary research project that began at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
A new mission involving synchronized aircraft observations is collecting data vital for improving our understanding of how aerosol particles and clouds influence each other.
Genie Lorenzo receives 2021-2022 Ralph Cicerone Fellowship at ACOM
Congratulations to Genie Lorenzo for receiving the 2021-2022 Ralph Cicerone Fellowship at ACOM (Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling; NCAR). Genie will get to work with NCAR scientists for several months in Boulder, Colorado.
Miguel Hilario's latest paper, "Measurement report: Long-range transport patterns into the tropical northwest Pacific during the CAMP2Ex aircraft campaign: chemical composition, size distributions, and the impact of convection", was published as the first paper in ACP's CAMP2Ex special issue.
New Graduate Student Next Fall!
We are excited to welcome Kayla McCauley as a new graduate student next fall from the Penn State Department of Meteorology.
2021-2022 University of Arizona Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation Scholar
Congratulations to Joseph Schlosser for being named a 2021-2022 University of Arizona ARCS (Achievement Rewards for College Scientists) Foundation Scholar.
Kira Zeider has been admitted to the 2020-2021 University of Arizona Superfund Research Training Core. Additionally, she discussed her work on ACTIVATE with k-means clustering on aerosol size distributions on KXCI’s Thesis Thursday.
Andrea Corral's latest publication "Source Apportionment of Aerosol at a Coastal Site and Relationships with Precipitation Chemistry: A Case Study over the Southeast United States" was selected for an "Editor's Choice" recognition in the journal Atmosphere.
Marisa Gonzalez was selected for a "Roots for Resilience Research Assistantships in Data Science" for Spring 2021. She will make use of open science and computational infrastructure, such as CyVerse, to apply data science tools to her research, as well as increase our department’s data science capacity.
Outstanding Graduate Student for 2020-2021
Congratulations to Ali Hossein Mardi for being named the Outstanding Graduate Student for 2020-2021 for the Environmental Engineering Program.

JPL’s Leslie Mullen interviewed Armin for the “On a Mission” podcast episode entitled “Air and Shield”. Armin talks about airborne aerosol research and the ACTIVATE mission: