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Science, Technology & Engineering in Policy (STEP) Program '23 Keynote
(Seminar/Conference)
A Front-Row Seat to Policymaking During a Global Pandemic
Dr. Linsey Marr, Charles P. Lunsford Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech
Introduction by Dr. Michael Friedlander, Executive Director of the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute and Virginia Tech Vice President for Health Sciences and Technology
Monday, April 3rd at 1pm (Steger Hall Conference Center and via Zoom)
Light reception to follow
Registration required: https://forms.gle/ML2brcQCaHVzQ8Np7
Dr. Linsey Marr is the Charles P. Lunsford Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech. Her research group studies pollutants in indoor and outdoor air. She is especially interested in emerging or non-traditional aerosols such as microorganisms and engineered nanomaterials and how they are transformed in the environment. Prior to the pandemic, she was one of a small number of scientists who studied viruses in the air. She has worked with the WHO, CDC, and National Academies to update conventional wisdom about virus transmission and recommend guidelines for protecting public health. She has been interviewed hundreds of times and has contributed op-eds to The New York Times and The Washington Post about transmission of Covid-19. Marr is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, American Association for Aerosol Research, and the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate. She received a B.S. in Engineering Science from Harvard and a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from UC Berkeley and completed her post-doctoral training in Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT.
Virginia Tech's Science, Technolgy & Engineering in Policy (STEP) Program is enchanting the capacities of science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and health care (STEM-H) students, practitioners, and scholars to be effective participants and collaborators in policy processes. The program develops participants' understanding of policy processes and abilities to engage with complex public problems, recognizing that they are often social, ecological, and technical in nature. We broadly interpret STEM-H and are building a big tent to accommodate virtually anyone interested in interactions at the science-policy interface. For more information, please visit: https://step.vt.edu
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