- Vox: The gas stove regulation uproar Jan 2023
- Science Daily: Germicidal UV lamps: A trade-off between disinfection and air quality Dec 2022
- Nature Outlook: Disinfecting the air with far-ultraviolet light Oct 2022
- The Conversation: Here’s where (and how) you are most likely to catch COVID – new study Jan 2022
- JAMA Medical News & Perspectives: COVID-19 Precautions Help Make Music That’s Beautiful and Safe Oct 2021
- Slate: How the Fossil Fuel Industry Convinced Americans to Love Gas Stoves Feb 2021
- ACS Axial: Shelly L Miller shares how COVID-19 affected her research Feb 2021
- Montreal Gazette: No down side to installing air purifiers in classrooms Jan 2021
- WebMD: From Public to Personal: Pandemic Lessons Learned, Dec 2020
- Music and aerosols: What the research reveals about the performing arts during a pandemic, Dec 2020
- Radio Health Journal Interview on COVID transmission in restaurants and household gatherings with Reed Pence Nov 2020
- The Conversation: Keeping indoor air clean can reduce the chance of spreading coronavirus, Nov 2020
- New York Times Nov 18 2020: The Coronavirus Is Airborne Indoors. Why Are We Still Scrubbing Surfaces?
- CU Today: Ask an expert: Staying safe this winter and holiday season during COVID-19 Oct 2020
- TIME: Is There Any Safe Way to Socialize Inside This Winter? Oct 2020
- Medium: America Needs a National Mask Mandate ASAP Oct 2020
- Elemental: Six Feet Is Not Enough and 15 Minutes Is Too Long Oct 2020
- Quartz: To win customers’ trust, restaurants are paying to improve ventilation Oct 2020
- USA Today: Ventilation and air filtration play a key role in preventing the spread of COVID-19 indoors Oct 2020
- Today Show: How to reduce COVID-19 spread indoors: Expert tips on airflow, precautions Sep 2020
- Elemental: Read This Before You Even Consider Dining Indoors Sep 2020
- PBS NewsHour: How a focus on cleaning surfaces can distract from actual virus spread Sep 2020
- The Conversation: How to use ventilation and air filtration to prevent the spread of coronavirus indoors, Aug 2020
- LA Times: Scientists to choirs: Group singing can spread the coronavirus, despite what CDC may say Jun 2020
- Webinar for CU Boulder LEEDs School of Business Alumni Association: “How Can Airborne Transmission of COVID-19 Indoors be Minimized?” May 1 2020
- ASME recently interviewed me and my colleague for a blog on how to engineer the new workplace in response to decreasing the risk of disease transmission
- The Conversation: Coronavirus drifts through the air in microscopic droplets – here’s the science of infectious aerosols, Apr 2020
- Nature featured our paper on Apr 20, 2020: “Rising carbon dioxide levels will make us stupider.”
- I was interviewed for the Student published paper CU Independent on air quality impacts and reducing the risk of COVID19 infection. Mar 2020.
- Webinar for RetrotecEnergy, HVAC and COVID19: An education on the indoor air/virus relationship, Mar 20, 2020
- I was interviewed by Dwell Magazine Jan 2020: Interview Here.
- I sat down with Geeky Girl Reality in Jan 2020 and shared my version of #STEMStories: https://www.geekyreality.com/blog/stemstories-shelly-professor-usa/
- Forbes and The Atlantic both wrote articles mentioning our paper on the possibility of climate change making us “dumber,” Dec 2020.
- CPR News Jan 6 2020: Why Denver Sometimes Smells Like Mothballs (And Other Unpleasant Things). Many Denverites notice mothball-like odors while driving on I-25. Dr. Shelly Miller, professor of environmental engineering, was mentioned for her research on Denver odors, their sources and how they affect locals.
- Room to Breathe: The Quest for Clean Air was published in Wired by Lisa Wood Shapiro on, Dec 12, 2019, and Lisa interviewed me for this article and includes these quotes:
- “I now cook on an induction stove top,” she said. “It doesn’t create the pollution that gas does.”
- “And I tell people to get rid of their rugs.”
- I was interviewed by @jenniferJolly for an article in USA Today, about low-cost indoor air quality monitors on, Sep 17, 2019
- I’ll be joining OpenHour at Public Lab Aug 5 2019 1pm ET to discuss what can you do when odors start affecting your neighborhood. I also recently contributed to Public Lab’s recent Community Science Forum issue 16 exploring odor logging. Learn about how to describe and monitor smells, where to report them, and hear from people working on new technology for monitoring and reporting.
- I helped break down some of the top air pollutants you may find in your home and how to know if it’s time to get an air filter. Check out the article here! Jul 14, 2019.
- I was interviewed on BBC, here is the two minute audio of this short piece about indoor air pollution, May 7, 2019
- New York Times Science published an article on Indoor Air Quality, focusing on CO2

effects on cognition, for which I was interviewed. It is an excellent piece, read it now!


I was invited to give a talk at the National Academy of Sciences Microbiology of the Built Environment 2017 Symposium https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7n8oc-ITbw. And the title of talk was Building Engineering Controls for Improving Occupant Health: Mitigating Airborne Particles, Toxic Gases, and Infectious Aerosols.