Clarkson University Chemical Engineering Student Gautham Sekar Plays Leading Role & Wins Awards at International Aerosol Research Conference

2016 Apr 25

Clarkson University faculty and students delivered 15 of the 700 presentations -- and a keynote speech -- at the 34th American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR) annual meeting.

Four Clarkson faculty members as well as postdoctoral researchers and students attended the annual meeting to present on the importance of airborne particles in industry, health and climate change.

Gautham Sekar, a chemical engineering graduate student from Coimbatore, India, working with Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Nakao Shunsuke, won one of the best student poster awards for his research.

AAAR is a nonprofit professional organization for scientists and engineers who wish to promote and communicate technical advances in the field of aerosol research. About 800 people, including 250 students, attended the event in Minneapolis, Minn., this fall.

Clarkson University educates the leaders of the global economy. One in five alumni already leads as an owner, CEO, VP or equivalent senior executive of a company. With its main campus located in Potsdam, New York, and additional graduate program and research facilities in the Capital Region and Beacon, N.Y., Clarkson is a nationally recognized research university with signature areas of academic excellence and research directed toward the world's pressing issues. Through more than 60 rigorous programs of study in engineering, business, arts, education, sciences and the health professions, the entire learning-living community spans boundaries across disciplines, nations and cultures to build powers of observation, challenge the status quo and connect discovery and innovation with enterprise.