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Katie Purvis-Roberts
Katie Purvis-Roberts Co-Authors Dynamic Urban Emission Displacement Assessment
“In reality, fossil fuel divestment is impossible due to its reliability,” the co-authors write, “but renewable technology can improve the built environment and air quality management in the city.”
Read MoreKatie Purvis-Roberts Receives Third Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Grant
鈥淭he APEC grant allows my students and me to analyze real-world data and apply it to environmental policies, while working with international collaborators at the same time,鈥 Purvis-Roberts explains.
Read MoreEnvironmental Chemistry Students Collaborate Overseas to Revive Bangkok Canals
With funding from The Claremont College鈥檚 EnvironLab Asia聽initiative, a laboratory that links knowledge with practice, environmental chemistry students from Scripps, Pitzer, and Claremont McKenna teamed up with graduate-level design students at Bangkok鈥檚 King Mongkut鈥檚 University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT) to conceptualize methods of reviving the canal metropolis.
Read MoreKitchen Chromatography and Virtual Escape Rooms: Chemistry Faculty Adapt to Remote Instruction
Natalie Tsai ’22 said the class has inspired her to become more involved with chemistry-related research, specifically antibiotic discovery. 鈥淭his course showed me the multitude of ways that chemists can make an impact in their communities,鈥 she said.
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