Prof. Bourouiba elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering For groundbreaking contributions to our fundamental understanding of unsteady fluid fragmentation and its application to the spread of contagious diseases. 
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Prof. Lydia Bourouiba elected American Physical Society (APS) Fellow of the prominent scientific society for her outstanding contributions to physics and pioneering a new field of study. She was specifically elected for “fundamental work in quantitatively elucidating the mechanisms of droplet impact and fragmentation, and for pioneering a new field at the intersection of fluid…

Bourouiba, L. (2021) The fluid dynamics of disease transmission. Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics. 53:473-508. One of the most downloaded papers of 2021: https://www.annualreviews.org/action/showMostReadArticles?journalCode=fluid Highlight here:  To understand airborne transmission of disease, follow the flow. Knowable Magazine.  

Randall, K. and Ewing, E. T. and Marr, L. and Jimenez, J. and Bourouiba, L. (2021) How Did We Get Here: What Are Droplets and Aerosols and How Far Do They Go? A Historical Perspective on the Transmission of Respiratory Infectious Diseases. Royal Society Interface Focus.11:20210049

Krishnan, R., G., Cenci, S. and Bourouiba, L. (2021) Mitigating bias in estimating epidemic severity due to heterogeneity of epidemic onset and data aggregation. Annals of Epidemiology, now in press!

Bourouiba, L. (2021)  Fluid dynamics of respiratory infectious diseases. Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering. 23:547-577.

Wang, Y. and Bourouiba, L.  (2021) Mass, momentum, and energy partitioning in unsteady fragmentation now in press in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics!

Congratulations to Nicholas Kwok for being awarded his Degree with Honors, cum laude, based on both his written thesis document and defense presentation. The decision to award  the MD degree with Honors reflects the high quality of the doctoral scholarship. Congratulations Nicholas!

Congratulations to Samantha Hartzell, group alumna, for starting her faculty position!Samantha Hartzell worked with Prof Bourouiba first as UROP student mentee –  Applied Mathematics –  and then as senior thesis and Capstone mentee – CEE – graduating in 2015. We wish Samantha all the best for her faculty beginnings!Now faculty at Portland State University

Congratulations to Anjini Chandra for being selected for one of the 2021 Barry Goldwater Scholarships! The mission of the Goldwater program is to identify and support students who show exceptional promise of becoming this Nation’s next generation of natural sciences, mathematics, and engineering research leaders.