Chris Boyce, an assistant professor of chemical engineering, was named to this year’s 30 Under 30 In Science list for his unconventional approaches—like using MRI to look at chemical reactors—that can be applied to mining, disaster preparedness, and more.
Since its inception in 2006, the Amgen Scholars Program has made research opportunities at premier institutions possible for more than 3,900 undergraduate students representing 700 colleges and universities.
“There’s about 10 times more forest burning this year than there was in a year in the 1970s and 1980s. And that increase has been driven by warming,” said Park Williams, a bioclimatologist at Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, about the California wildfires.