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Air quality research in Denver schools highlighted by multiple media outlets

CU Boulder alumna Halle Sago, left, and undergraduate student Ricardo Reyes, right, visit High Peaks Elementary School in Boulder, Colorado, to monitor air quality.

Mark Hernandez's research to study air quality and COVID-19 in Denver Public Schools is being covered by numerous Front Range journalists.

Denver Public Schools is spending $1.5 million to track air quality in classrooms with new monitors installed by Hernandez and his students.

Hernandez, a professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, is an expert in genetic, biochemical and toxicological techniques to assess the efficacy of engineering interventions in sanitary and hygiene concerns.

His laboratory has a particular focus on aerobiology science for wide-area surveillance, indoor cleaning technology and the design of aerosol disinfection systems in the built environment.

The project is receiving coverage in the Denver Post, Denverite, 9News, and Chalkbeat Colorado

Denver Post: Denver Public Schools spending $1.5 million to track air quality in classrooms with new monitors

Denverite: DPS is adding air monitors in all of its schools

9News: DPS installs air quality sensors in schools

Chalkbeat Colorado: Denver schools to monitor indoor air quality using federal COVID money