by nmclain | Mar 20, 2025 | News
Researchers at the Institute for Health in the Build Environment (IHBE) are among the contributors of a new paper in Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology on methods of detecting COVID-19 in a built environment. Environmental surveillance holds...
by nmclain | Oct 1, 2024 | News
Siobhan Rockcastle and Kyuho Ahn have been awarded an Agricultural Research Services (ARS) Tallwood Design Institute grant through the USDA for the proposal titled, ‘Surface matters: Exploring the impact of finishes on human factors that limit the market adoption of...
by Mira | Nov 28, 2022 | News, Publication, Research
It’s important to stay six feet apart, but eventually it stops mitigating disease transmission risk. Several studies suggest that transmission from a distance greater than six feet explains a significant number of COVID-19 superspreading outbreaks. Because of this,...
by Mira | Mar 30, 2022 | News, Publication, Research
Our latest preprint on COVID-19 and aerosol transmission: “A novel VOC breath tracer method to evaluate indoor respiratory exposures in the near- and far-fields” is available! The public has been told for the majority of the pandemic that we need to keep...
by Mira | Oct 18, 2018 | News, Publication, Research
Written by Mark Fretz, Sue Ishaq, and Mira Zimmerman Light is as necessary to the perfect growth and nutrition of the human frame as are air and food; and, whenever it is deficient, health fails, and disease appears… Artificial is but a very bad substitute for natural...
