Environmental Sciences and Engineering News
Vizuete named Innovation Strategy Adviser at Gillings School
October 29, 2024 Dr. William Vizuete, professor of environmental sciences and engineering, has a new title: the Gillings School’s first innovation strategy adviser. The inaugural role represents the School’s deep commitment to building a robust culture of innovation, entrepreneurship and translation for direct impact.
Turpin selected as member of the Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board and Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee
October 24, 2024 Dr. Barbara Turpin will serve on the EPA's Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee.
Gillings lab uses AI to predict local air quality
October 24, 2024 Unlike current models, the DeepCTM bot shows the impact of proposed development at the neighborhood level.
Gillings School graduate Gary White to receive 2024 Distinguished Alumni Award
October 4, 2024 Gary White has devoted his life to creating sustainable solutions to provide access to safe drinking water and sanitation to millions of people throughout the world.
CDC National Wastewater Surveillance System gives prestigious designation to North Carolina DHHS and UNC-Chapel Hill
October 2, 2024 Wastewater surveillance involves analyzing wastewater coming into a centralized sewage treatment plant to look for viruses and bacteria that serve as metrics of disease prevalence in communities. This approach allows public health officials to better estimate disease trends.
NIEHS highlights outstanding environmental health career of Fry
September 27, 2024 Dr. Fry collaborated with researchers in Thailand to investigate how in utero exposure to arsenic from abandoned tin mines affects gene activity in infants.
Computer models evaluate risks before floods
September 25, 2024 Gillings researchers can estimate mortgage defaults and property abandonment down to the neighborhood.
Seed grants tackle key environmental health challenges
September 20, 2024The UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and Triangle-area nonprofit research organization RTI International leveraged their shared expertise to tackle important challenges related to health and the environment.
Tracking fecal pathogen flows in Uganda and Zambia
September 18, 2024 Researchers from the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering spent the summer working with communities in Uganda and Zambia, monitoring how sanitation system failures influence the movement of disease-causing organisms through urban environments.
The PROMISE Consortium: Deploying team science principles to build capacity for environmental health research and decision-making
September 18, 2024 Gillings faculty member Dr. Musa Manga and doctoral student Sarah Lebu discuss a new research consortium in the field of environmental health.
