BSCE 1950 - CCE
After graduation, Ralph Larsen entered the U.S. Public Health Service and worked in the pollution control area from 1950-1954. He was a scholar and a scientist at heart, and continued his studies, receiving MS and PhD degrees from Harvard in 1955 and 1957. His field of expertise was air pollution control; he worked in the National Air Pollution Control Administration from 1957-1961. Since 1961, Larsen has worked as an environmental research engineer at the EPA's National Exposure Research Laboratory at Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, authoring over 55 articles in professional journals related to air pollution impacts and methods of control. He received the USPHS Medal of Commendation in 1979 and has held offices in the Air and Waste Management Association and the USPHS Commanders Officers Association. Larsen has extensive educational and consulting experience overseas including work in Poland, Brazil, France, Austria, and Italy.