Kira Zeider is a Tucson native who obtained double bachelor’s degrees in chemical and environmental engineering at the University of Arizona (UA) and then continued into the UA’s chemical engineering graduate program, where she is a third-year doctoral student. She has been selected as a Herbold Fellow, Richard A. Harvill Fellow, and Superfund Research Training Core Trainee for her multi-disciplinary research in aerosol-cloud-meteorology interactions and mining impacts on local communities. Her 2021 community science publication on utilizing plant leaves as low-cost air quality monitors was selected as one of 35 NIEHS Papers of the Year.
Thesis Thursday is produced at KXCI, with two hosts, and two new episodes each week. As we are currently in the midst of our...
Chelsea Mendoza is an undergraduate student pursuing a Bachelor’s in Environmental Science at the University of Arizona. She is originally from California and enjoys...
Emily Dieckman is the host of the KCI podcast Love in the Time of Everyone, a show about how the way we navigate relationships...