The UNC Superfund Research Program (SRP), in collaboration with the UNC School of Law Well Water Pro Bono Project, the environmental non-profit Clean Water for North Carolina (CWFNC), the NC Department of Health and Human Services, the Division of Public Health’s Private Well and Health Program, and the NC Real Estate Commission engaged in an... Read more »
Royster Fellow, SRP trainee, and doctoral student Riley Vickers is bringing his expertise to a multidisciplinary team developing new water purification filters. His dissertation aims to improve synthetic membranes for water treatment using molecular-scale modeling. Click here to read full article
UNC SRP’s Project 5 is focused on identifying ways membrane systems can be better designed and implemented to improve arsenic removal and disposal methods. “Clarifying the fundamental mechanisms required for a membrane to separate arsenic from water is integral to designing new membranes that improve membrane treatment outcomes,” according to Orlando Coronell, PhD, Project 5... Read more »
This past summer, two high school students had the opportunity to experience mentorship in the SRP Project 2 and Project 5 labs. James Xenakis, Project 2 trainee, and Holly Haflich, Project 5 trainee, explained the process of getting high school students into the labs and how they contributed to moving the research forward amid the... Read more »
Four UNC undergraduate students spent their summer working in UNC SRP Director Rebecca Fry’s lab, building understanding of how environmental exposures to toxic substances are associated with human disease. Louisa Boateng, Victoria Evans, Noemi Gavino-Lopez, and Adriana Ruby Gatona presented their research to an audience of UNC faculty, staff, and students, as well as the... Read more »
Jeliyah Clark, UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering Graduate trainee, UNC SRP Project 2 and Project 3 Pregnancy is a magical time for an expecting mother, yet there are many aspects to consider when you’re eating for two. During the first weeks of pregnancy, finger-like projections emerge from a ball of cells that... Read more »
In response to supplemental funding awarded to SRP P2 to investigate the intersection of arsenic exposure to susceptibility to COVID-19, Dana Haine, Science Educator with UNC SRP’s Community Engagement Core and K-12 Science Education Manager for the UNC Institute for the Environment’s Center for Public Engagement with Science saw an opportunity to bring current SRP... Read more »
The UNC SRP Dataverse portal serves as a primary platform for publishing SRP related data across projects and cores. Julia Rager, PhD, co-lead of the Data Management and Analysis Core (DMAC) was instrumental in getting this portal set up. “The DMAC was the primary driver for identifying how data should be permanently deposited across SRP... Read more »
Researchers from UNC SRP’s Project 3, led by Kun Lu, PhD, recently published an article in npj Biofilms and Microbiomes titled, Detection of gut microbiota and pathogen produced N-acyl homoserine in host circulation and tissues. Their findings demonstrate that specific bacteria can produce AHLs that can be detected in host bodies which suggests that quorum-sensing... Read more »
America Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America and Soil Science Society of America hosted a virtual congressional visit day in March. Attendees were trained to talk to members of congress and their staff. Every attendee was advocating for $655 million to fund agricultural research. Two trainees and one researcher from UNC Superfund Research... Read more »
