Every year, nearly three million people die of illnesses caused by exposure to household air pollution. Every day, billions fulfill their daily energy needs for cooking family meals, heating water, processing food for livestock, and warming the house over inefficient …
Yearly Archives: 2017
Research Spotlight: Measuring the Elusive
Illinois graduate student Cheryl Weyant never pictured her career leading her to the top of a rickety, two-story scaffold surrounding a giant kiln exhaust stack in rural India. And yet, in the spring of 2011, that’s exactly where she found …
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“I love it when my friends talk”
This Director’s Note was originally published in the July 2017 edition of the CACHE Quarterly Newsletter.
I kicked off my summer with a trip to Warsaw, Poland, where the Climate and Clean Air Coalition had a meeting focused on heating …
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A “knotty confluence”
This Director’s Note was originally published in the April 2017 edition of the CACHE Quarterly Newsletter.
In the summer of 2005, my research group conducted one of our first field campaigns near Tegucigalpa, Honduras. I was pretty excited. Household emissions …
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CACHE Team Explores emPOWERing Community
In cities, villages, and towns throughout the world, university researchers seek to bring innovations to the lives of those in developing countries. They reach out a humanitarian hand, hoping to elevate the wellbeing of people.
However, these development projects don’t …
“The Birth of CACHE”
This Director’s Note was published in the January 2017 edition of the CACHE Quarterly Newsletter.
In September 2014, I was still reeling from the phone calls, interview requests, and felicitations that flood a person who’s been visited by a MacArthur …
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