Tami Bond, a of civil and environmental engineering, has received a 2014 MacArthur fellowship, commonly called a “genius grant.”
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Tami Bond , a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been awarded a 2014 MacArthur Fellowship , commonly known as a "genius grant," from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The fellowship carries an unrestricted $625,000 stipend to be used as the researcher sees best. According to a statement from the MacArthur Foundation, the fellows are chosen according to three criteria: "Exceptional creativity, promise for important future advances based on a track record of significant accomplishment, and potential for the fellowship to facilitate subsequent creative work." Bond is a world leader in the study of aerosol emissions. She studies particles released into the air from burning all sorts of fuels, from biomass burning to kerosene lamps to diesel engines. She has been a pioneer in understanding the effects of black carbon, the dark soot that floats into the air when organic matter is burned - a hazard for human health and the environment, affecting air quality both indoors and out. She has formed partnerships with the World Bank to measure emissions from diesel vehicles in developing nations and with nonprofit organizations to measure biofuel-cooking emissions. Understanding is only half the battle, though, and Bond seeks innovative solutions through practical, low-cost interventions, such as training people in developing countries to measure and evaluate their own cookstoves.
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