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KERRY KELLY

Associate Professor

Chemical Engineering

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  • Associate Professor
    Chemical Engineering

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & OUTREACH
    reat Salt Lake
    12 Nov 2025
    Grow the Flow: Understanding Health Impacts of Dust from the Great Salt Lake. Ogden Union Station, Ogen, UT, November 12, 2025
  • HONOR/AWARD
    AIChE Environmental Division Lederman Service Award
    27 Oct 2025
    AIChE
  • COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & OUTREACH
    Summit County Health Department: The Air We Share
    30 Sep 2025
    The Air We Share: Understanding changes in local air quality and how it impacts your health
  • COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & OUTREACH
    Women 4 STEM
    1 Mar 2025
    Invited Speaker, Weber State
  • COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & OUTREACH
    Salt Lake County Climate and Health Conference
    23 Apr 2024
    Invited speaker
  • COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & OUTREACH
    Adaptive physical education and air quality conference
    10 Feb 2024 - 10 Feb 2024
  • PROFESSIONAL BOARD OR COMMITTEE PARTICIPATION
    American Institute of Chemical Engineers
    1 Jan 2024 - 31 Dec 2024
    Environmental Division
  • PROFESSIONAL BOARD OR COMMITTEE PARTICIPATION
    State of Utah
    1 Jul 2023 - 31 Aug 2024
    Air Quality Policy Board
  • COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & OUTREACH
    Media interviews
    7 Jan 2023
    Salt Lake Tribune, December 11, 2024. Can you improve air quality in your home? These Utahns let indoor sensors track their daily life. Here’s what they learned. https://www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2024/12/11/how-improve-home-air-quality-utah/ KSL News Radio. December 4, 2024. The University of Utah is working to set up air quality sensors around the state. https://kslnewsradio.com/2162276/university-of-utah-working-to-set-up-air-quality-sensors-around-the-state/ Fox13 News. December 2, 2024. Ways that Utahns can limit & avoid pollution as inversion settles in valleys https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/northern-utah/ways-utahns-can-limit-avoid-pollution-as-inversion-settles-in-valleys KSL News. December 2, 2024. Tools for understanding air quality where you are. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxAivOhDdX8 Science News (national). September 24, 2024. Reactive dust from Great Salt Lake may have health consequences. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/salt-lake-dust-health-consequences OoS (national) October 1, 2024. A Fuller Great Salt Lake Would Likely Narrow an Environmental Health Gap. https://eos.org/articles/a-fuller-great-salt-lake-would-likely-narrow-an-environmental-health-gap. Public News Service (national). September 23, 2024. Research probes health effects of dust from Great Salt Lake. https://www.publicnewsservice.org/2024-09-23/air-quality/research-probes-health-effects-of-dust-from-great-salt-lake/a92510-1 KSL News. September 15, 2024. Here's what U. researchers are learning about dangers associated with Great Salt Lake dust. https://www.ksl.com/article/51127952 KSL Radio, September 6, 2024. Research explores dangers of inhaling dust from the Great Salt Lake. https://kslnewsradio.com/2132802/great-salt-lake-dust-danger/ The Story Exchange (national), May 1, 2024. How do we deal with bad air quality? https://thestoryexchange.org/how-do-we-deal-with-bad-air-quality/ KSL Radio, January 8, 2024. University of Utah project aims to protect kids from bad air. https://kslnewsradio.com/2070022/university-of-utah-project-aims-to-protect-kids-from-bad-air/ Westhub, October 2, 2023. University of Utah researchers have a million dollar idea to protect children from air pollution. https://www.price.utah.edu/2023/09/26/university-of-utah-researchers-have-a-million-dollar-idea-to-protect-kids-from-air-pollution The Nation (national), August 21, 2023. The Great Salt Lake is becoming too salty to support life. https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/dust-great-salt-lake/ KUER: Utah, July 25, 2023. New gravel operations proposed for Parley’s Canyon.
  • PROFESSIONAL BOARD OR COMMITTEE PARTICIPATION
    American Institute of Chemical Engineers
    1 Jan 2023 - 31 Dec 2024
    Chair, Environmental Division
  • COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & OUTREACH
    Breathe Utah: Board of Directors
    1 Jan 2023 - 31 Dec 2026
  • HONOR/AWARD
    Women in Science Incentive Prize
    8 Dec 2022
    The Story Exchange
  • COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & OUTREACH
    Sorenson Community Center STEM fest
    13 Dec 2019 - 13 Dec 2019
  • HONOR/AWARD
    Early Career Award
    11 Nov 2019
    AIChE Environmental Division
  • COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & OUTREACH
    HiGear Camp
    11 Jun 2019 - 11 Jun 2019
  • HONOR/AWARD
    William H. Corcoran Award for the best paper in Chemical Engineering Education
    1 Jun 2019
    ASEE
  • HONOR/AWARD
    Air Quality Person of the Year
    1 Feb 2018
    UCAIR
  • COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & OUTREACH
    West Side Communities: the air we breathe
    11 Nov 2017 - 17 Nov 2018
  • COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & OUTREACH
    AirU High School Presentations
    1 Jan 2017 - 1 Jan 2017
    Outreach visits to the following high schools: East, West, SLCSE, Jordan, AMES for the AirU project
  • COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & OUTREACH
    AMES high school air-quality sensor teaching module
    18 Nov 2016 - 18 Nov 2016
  • COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & OUTREACH
    Keynote speaker at local chapter of the AWMA annual dinner
    13 Sep 2016 - 13 Sep 2016
  • COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & OUTREACH
    HiGEAR Camp Presentation
    14 Jun 2016 - 14 Jun 2016
    Annual HiGear camp for female high school students interested in Chemical Engineering
  • COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & OUTREACH
    Salt Lake City Air Quality Advisory Committee
    1 Dec 2015 - 1 Dec 2015
  • PROFESSIONAL BOARD OR COMMITTEE PARTICIPATION
    Sate Air Quality Board
    1 May 2009 - 1 May 2017
    Air Quality Board