Press Releases

Press Releases

2025

• Georgia Tech press release "Watching Wildfire's Effects in Real Time"
• UNDARK News & Features "Wildfires Are Challenging Air Quality Monitoring Infrastructure"
• NSF Stories "Cutting-edge air quality monitoring strengthens public health nationwide"
• Georgia Tech press release "LA Fires Trigger Temporary Spike in Airborne Lead Levels"
• NYT article "Airborne Lead and Chlorine Levels Soared as L.A. Wildfires Raged"

2024

• AJC article "Conyers chemical plant fire"
• AJC article "Experts say health effects from BioLab fire, chemical release hard to estimate"
• 11Alive News segment "Scientists in Atlanta monitoring air from Conyers chemical plume"

2023

• ChBE press release "Professor Ng is 2023 AGU Atmospheric Sciences Ascent Award Recipient"
• ChBE press release "Georgia Tech Study Sheds Light on Toxicity of Atmospheric Particulate Matter Pollution"
• ChBE press release "Research Study Finds Unexpected Interactions in Formation of Secondary Organic Aerosol in Atmosphere"

2022

• ChBE press release "Georgia Tech Researchers Study Methods for Assessing Classroom Air Quality during COVID-19 Pandemic"
• ChBE press release "Nga Lee "Sally" Ng Awarded Love Family Professorship"
• ScienceNews article "Western wildfires' health risks extend across the country"

2021

• Georgia Tech press release ASCENT "$12 Million NSF Grant Will Establish Nationwide Atmospheric Measurement Network"
• ChBE press release "Study Shows that Electronic Air Cleaning Technology Can Generate Unintended Pollutants"
• WHYY article "What researchers are learning about air pollution and the pandemic shutdown"
• WABE-FM feature "Georgia Tech Study Shows Aircraft Cabins May Have Fewest Indoor Air Pollutants"
• Georgia Tech press release "Indoor Air Quality Study Shows Aircraft in Flight May Have Lowest Particulate Levels"

2020

• C&EN article "COVID-19 lockdowns had strange effects on air pollution across the globe"
• ChBE press release "Professor Sally Ng Monitoring Air Quality in Georgia Tech Classrooms"
• Georgia Tech press release "Improving Air Quality in the Classroom"
• Big Picture Science radio show "Something in the Air"
• NYT article "Pandemic's Cleaner Air Could Reshape What We Know About the Atmosphere"

2019

• AJC article "With fewer cars and a pandemic, Atlanta's air quality improves"
• College of Engineering press release "Georgia Tech Engineers and Scientists on 2019 Highly Cited Researcher List"
• C&EN article "Extreme weather will cause more air-quality related deaths in China"
• College of Science press release "Sally Ng: 2019 Outstanding Achievement in Early Career Research Award"
• ChBE press release "ChBE Professors Win 2019 Georgia Tech Faculty Awards"

2018

• ChBE press release "ChBE professors among Most Highly Cited"
• ChBE Feature "Influential Research at CHBE"
• DOE Feature Article "From Leaves to Clouds: Revealing How Trees' Emissions Shape The Air Around Us"
• ChBE press release "Professor Ng Wins Award from Dreyfus Foundation"

2017

• ChBE press release "Sally Ng Named Among World's Most Highly Cited Researchers"

2016

• ChBE press release "Sally Ng Wins 2016 Whitby Award for Aerosol Research"
• ESPN Feature "Georgia Tech Environmental Chamber Facility"
• ChBE Front Page "Ng Wins NSF CAREER Award"

2013

• College of Engineering press release "Sally Ng (ChBE and EAS) wins 2013 Walter A. Rosenblith New Investigator Award"
• Southern Oxidant and Aerosols Study (SOAS), Georgia Tech Front Page "Six Weeks in the Forest"
• College of Engineering press release "ChBE's Nga Lee "Sally" Ng Receives EPA STAR Early Career Award"
• Debut Issue of "Georgia Tech Engineers" magazine and Georgia Tech Front Page "In the Air We Breathe"