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March 10, 2004

NC State Atmospheric Scientist Zhang Earns NSF Career Award

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Dr. Yang Zhang

Dr. Yang Zhang, assistant professor of marine, earth and atmospheric sciences at North Carolina State University, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (Career) Award.

The NSF Career Award is one of the highest honors given by NSF to young university faculty in science and engineering, and is intended to advance the development of their research and careers.

The five-year, $578,105 grant was awarded to Zhang for her proposal entitled “Forecasting Chemical Weather with a Coupled Meteorology-Chemistry Model System: Research and Education Challenges.”

Zhang’s area of expertise lies in atmospheric chemistry and air quality. Her research interests include air pollution modeling and forecasting, atmospheric chemistry and transport, chemistry and dynamics of aerosols and clouds, sensitivity and uncertainty analysis, and the interactions among atmospheric chemistry, meteorology, climate change and health effects.

Zhang received her bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering in 1988 from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, and her Ph.D. in chemical and biochemical engineering in 1994 from the University of Iowa. She joined the NC State faculty in 2003.

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