Catherine P. Koshland is the Wood-Calvert Professor in Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and Professor in Energy and Resources and in Public Health (Environmental Health Sciences). Professor Koshland graduated with a B.A. in Fine Arts from Haverford College, studied painting at the New York School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, and received her M.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 1978 and her Ph.D. in 1985 from Stanford University.  She joined the U. C. Berkeley faculty in 1984.  She teaches engineering, energy and environmental health, emphasizing mechanistic approaches as well as a systems perspective.

Professor Koshland's research is conducted at multiple scales, from mechanistic analyses of combustion products in flow reactors to control strategies in urban airsheds to improved management of the global industrial production system.  Her combustion research has focused on pollutant formation particularly involving chlorinated hydro-carbons, droplet and spray combustion, and the development of advanced diagnostic tools for non-intrusive moni-toring of combustion species including chlorinated hydrocarbons and metals.  In addition, she has worked at the intersection of energy, air pollution and environmental (human) health.  Her recent work is in the area of green manufacturing and industrial ecology, addressing the conception and assessment of improved technologies in energy and manufacturing that consider environmental needs and the barriers to implementation of new technologies or policies. Prof. Koshland is Associate Director of the UC Berkeley Superfund Basic Research Program, and Director of the Health Effects of Modern Technologies, the Berkeley component of the UC Toxic Substances Research and Teaching Program. At Berkeley, she is an elected member of the Divisional Council of the Academic Senate, Co-Chair of the Committee on  Undergraduate Scholarships and Honors, and member of the Commission on Undergraduate Education.   She is a director  and Secretary of The Combustion Institute. She is Vice Chair of the Board of Managers of Haverford College, and chairs its Educational  Affairs Committee. She is married to James M. Koshland, and has three children, Sarah (Cal ’99), Maggie (Cal ’02) and Jacob (age 13).

HONORS
1979-80   Energy Fellowship (DOE), Stanford University
1978   Member, Stanford University Sci & Tech Delegation to The People's Republic of China, 1978.
1985   Sigma Xi
1995   Wood-Calvert Professor in Engineering, 1995-present
1999   Nineteenth Annual Steven Manly Memorial Lecturer. University of California, Santa Barbara

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
The Combustion Institute, The American Chemical  Society, The Air and Waste Management Association, American Conference of Governmental  Industrial Hygienists , American Public Health Association

SELECTED UNIVERSITY SERVICE (1994-2000)
1.  Chair, Committee on Undergraduate Scholarship and Honors (CUSH)(1997-present)
     Member, 1993-present; Truman Award Subcommittee (1993-1998)
2.  Energy and Resources Group Executive Committee (1993-present)
3.  Chair, Environmental Council Executive Committee, 1996-98
4.  Division Head, Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health (1994-97)
     Chair, Environmental Health Sciences Graduate Group (1994-97)
5.  Member, Commission on Undergraduate Education, UC Berkeley (98-2000)
6.  Member, Divisional Council, UC Berkeley Academic Senate (1999-2001)

SELECTED GOVERNMENT AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE (1994-2000)
1. Reviewer for Combustion and Flame, Combustion Science and Technology, The Journal  of the Air and Waste Management Association, The National Science Foundation, The National Institute of Environmental Health Science and various University of California Research Programs
2. Executive Board, Western States Section of the Combustion Institute, 1987-present
3. Steering Committees,  First, Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth International Congress on Toxic Combustion Byproducts Fourth Congress Chair (1995), at UC Berkeley, June 1995
4. Program Sub-committees, Twentieth to Twenty-eighth Symposia (International) on Combustion (1984-00)
5. Manager (Trustee), Board of Managers, Haverford College, Haverford, PA, 1994-present
Vice Chair, Board of Managers, 1999-present
6. Member. Research Screening Committee, California Air Resources Board, 1998-present
 

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