JoAnn Slama Lighty is an American chemical engineer who is a professor at Boise State University. Her research considers carbon capture, chemical looping and black carbon emissions. In 2020 she was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for her air quality research.

JoAnn Slama Lighty
Alma materUniversity of Utah
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Utah
Boise State University
ThesisFundamentals of thermal treatment for the cleanup of contaminated solid wastes (1989)

Education

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Lighty was an undergraduate student at the University of Utah, where she specialized in chemical engineering.[1] She remained there for her doctoral research, studying opportunities to cleanup contaminated waste using thermal treatment.[1]

Research and career

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Lighty studies the combustion and gasifaction of fuels, and how these processes result in the formation of airborne pollutants.[1] She has worked on carbon-capture from coal powered combustion systems and soot oxidation in fuel-lean conditions.[2]

Lighty joined the faculty at the University of Utah in 1988.[3] In 2007, Lighty was elected Chair of Chemical Engineering at the University.[3] She spent 2010 as a Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge.[4] Her scientific research involves policy work with the United States Environmental Protection Agency and National Science Foundation.[5][6]

Lighty worked as division director for chemical, bioengineering, environmental, and transport systems at the National Science Foundation.[7] In this capacity, she oversaw the clean water program, which sought to identify low cost, low energy technologies to test and treat water.[8] In 2017 Lighty joined Boise State University as dean of engineering.[1][9]

Academic service

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At the University of Utah, Lighty founded the High School Girls Engineering Abilities Realized (HiGEAR) outreach programme and the elementary engineering group.[3]

Awards and honors

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Selected publications

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  • Lighty, JoAnn Slama; Veranth, John M.; Sarofim, Adel F. (2000-09-01). "Combustion Aerosols: Factors Governing Their Size and Composition and Implications to Human Health". Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association. 50 (9): 1565–1618. doi:10.1080/10473289.2000.10464197. ISSN 1096-2247. PMID 11055157. S2CID 44503309.
  • Zielinska, B.; Sagebiel, J.; Arnott, W. P.; Rogers, C. F.; Kelly, K. E.; Wagner, D. A.; Lighty, J. S.; Sarofim, A. F.; Palmer, G. (May 2004). "Phase and Size Distribution of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Diesel and Gasoline Vehicle Emissions". Environmental Science & Technology. 38 (9): 2557–2567. Bibcode:2004EnST...38.2557Z. doi:10.1021/es030518d. ISSN 0013-936X. PMID 15180051.
  • Eyring, E. M.; Konya, G.; Lighty, J. S.; Sahir, A. H.; Sarofim, A. F.; Whitty, K. (2011-03-01). "Chemical Looping with Copper Oxide as Carrier and Coal as Fuel". Oil & Gas Science and Technology – Revue d'IFP Energies nouvelles. 66 (2): 209–221. doi:10.2516/ogst/2010028. ISSN 1294-4475.

Personal life

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Lighty is married with two daughters.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "About JoAnn S. Lighty". Boise State. Retrieved 2020-12-16.
  2. ^ "NSF-AEESP Grand Challenges Workshops - Arlington Participants | AEESP". aeesp.org. Retrieved 2020-12-17.
  3. ^ a b c d e "JoAnn Slama Lightly - Presidential Commission on the Status of Women - The University of Utah". pcsw.utah.edu. Retrieved 2020-12-16.
  4. ^ "JoAnn Slama Lighty - Service - Faculty Profile - The University of Utah". faculty.utah.edu. Retrieved 2020-12-16.
  5. ^ Matanoski, Genevieve Elizabeth (Murray); Murarka, Ishwar Prasad; Lighty, JoAnn Slama, eds. (1996). "Review of the waste incineration research program". OCLC 36183248. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  6. ^ National Academies of Sciences, Engineering; Studies, Division on Earth and Life; Technology, Board on Chemical Sciences and; Roundtable, Chemical Sciences (2017-07-19). CHEMICAL SCIENCES ROUNDTABLE. National Academies Press (US).
  7. ^ "JoAnn Lighty: At the center of innovation and interconnection". Federal News Network. 2016-04-29. Retrieved 2020-12-17.
  8. ^ "National Science Foundation invests in a clean water future". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2020-12-17.
  9. ^ Staff, I. B. R. (2017-04-04). "JoAnn Slama Lighty will be next dean of engineering at Boise State". Idaho Business Review. Retrieved 2020-12-16.
  10. ^ "Individual Awards". Society of Women Engineers. 14 December 2018. Retrieved 2020-12-16.
  11. ^ "See Outstanding Achievement Award Recipients". YWCA Utah. Retrieved 2020-12-16.
  12. ^ "Linda K. Amos Award - Presidential Commission on the Status of Women - The University of Utah". pcsw.utah.edu. Retrieved 2020-12-16.
  13. ^ Engineering, College of. "JoAnn S. Lighty, Ph.D." College of Engineering. Retrieved 2023-04-03.
  14. ^ "AAAS Announces Leading Scientists Elected as 2020 Fellows | American Association for the Advancement of Science". www.aaas.org. Retrieved 2020-12-16.
  15. ^ "Winners: Lawrence K. Cecil Award in Environmental Chemical Engineering | AIChE". www.aiche.org. Retrieved 2020-12-16.