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Professor Heald profiled in MIT News’ Spotlight 

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Colette Heald describes her current work as “trying to understand the sources, transformation, and impact of gases and particles in the atmosphere, which is very dynamic with a lot of chemical compounds that interact.”“There’s Something in the Air,” a feature about Professor Colette Heald, was a headline story in MIT News Spotlight on April 28 describing her atmospheric chemistry career. The article describes her route to MIT and notes her global recognition last year as recipient of the prestigious AGU James Macelwane Medal. The article describes her current work as aiming “to understand the sources, transformation, and impact of gases and particles in the atmosphere…affecting ecosystems, air quality, and even the climate itself.” Another major area of her research is the complex interaction between the atmosphere and the biosphere. Read the entire MIT News story.