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Professor Mark Hernandez is featured in a new Time article about the benefits of airing out your home during cold winter months. Common in Germany for perceived health benefits, the practice is becoming trendy in the United States.

ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ professor Mark Hernandez and his team have discovered that UV light can disable common airborne allergens—like those from cats, dogs, and dust mites—within minutes by disrupting their proteins. The breakthrough, part of Hernandez’s broader work on indoor air quality and public health, could make it easier for people to improve the air in their homes, schools, and care facilities.

Mark Hernandez is serving as a commissioner of the newly launched Global Commission on Healthy Indoor Air to elevate indoor air as a critical public health priority and drive coordinated global action and solutions.

Researchers in Professor Mark Hernandez's lab have discovered that a passive, generally safe ultraviolet light treatment can rapidly inactivate airborne allergens. They believe this approach could serve as an additional tool to help reduce allergens in homes, schools and other indoor environments.

Three CEAE professors, Mark Hernandez, Gregor Henze and Tony Straub, won $125,000 each in ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ's Lab Venture Challenge.

Professor Mark Hernandez and his team was awarded $125,000 in this year’s Lab Venture Challenge (LVC) in the biosciences category.

Across the US, schools have begun measuring air quality en masse. Professor Mark Hernandez is helping to interpret the data.

In this episode of the American Lung Association Podcast, Professor Mark Hernandez speaks about the harmful impact of pollutants such as mold, toxic chemicals and asbestos on respiratory health, particularly in a school setting.

Mark Hernandez, SJ Archuleta Professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, is co-leading a $2.2 million CDC-funded project with researchers at CU Anschutz to investigate the impact of classroom air purifiers on reducing student absenteeism.