Safe Zone is a program designed to create a network of visible allies to people who identify as part of the diverse LGBTIQA+ community. The four-hour educational session provides information and resources related to sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression. Please register online.
Barbara Turpin, professor and chair of the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, will present this week’s seminar in the department’s Spring 2019 series. Turpin’s talk is titled, “Water-Soluble Organic Gases and Their Influence on Chemistry in Diverse Environments." Abstract Water is the most abundant condensed phase species in the atmosphere (including in aerosols). It has a... Read more »
Mikayla Armstrong, doctoral student in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences and Engineering, will present this week’s seminar in the department’s Spring 2019 series. Armstrong’s talk is titled, “Pursuing the perfect membrane: Strategies to decrease pollutant passage.” Abstract: Synthetic membranes are an attractive technology to implement at interfaces between humans and the environment because their implementation is relatively... Read more »
Mikayla Armstrong, environmental sciences and engineering doctoral student, will present "Synthetic Membranes: The Environmental Engineer's Swiss Army Knife," on March 6 in 2301 McGavran-Greenberg Hall. The event is part of the ENVR 400 in-house seminar series. Learn more here. Questions? Contact Dr. Howard Weinberg.
Chris Bowers, doctoral student in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, will present this week's seminar in the department’s Spring 2019 series. Bowers’s talk is titled, “Where does it go? Non-Newtonian fluid mechanics in hydraulic fracturing systems.” Abstract Over the last 20 years hydraulic fracturing, more commonly fracking, has become a hot button issue to policy... Read more »
Paige Bommarito, doctoral candidate in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, will present this week's seminar in the department’s Spring 2019 series. Bommarito’s talk is titled, “How metal is too metal: Does the placental epigenome link prenatal metals exposure to adverse birth outcomes?.” Abstract: Pre-eclampsia is a disorder of pregnancy that affects approximately 5% of... Read more »
Alma Beciragic, doctoral candidate in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, will present this week's seminar in the department’s Spring 2019 series. Beciragic’s talk is titled, “The Question Remains: What's Leaching from the Membrane?” Learn more here. Abstract: Increasing potable water demands coupled with the decreased availability of traditional water sources have made pressure driven membrane processes,... Read more »
Dr. Carmen Anthonj, a postdoctoral research associate at the Water Institute in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, will present this week’s seminar in the department’s Spring 2019 series. Anthonj’s talk is titled, “Water matters: Why a holistic, interdisciplinary approach is at the heart of solving the world’s sustainable development challenge”." Abstract: Water - the... Read more »
Alex Gorzalski, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, will present this week's seminar in the department’s Spring 2019 series. Gorzalski’s talk is titled, “Improving Accuracy of Contaminant Degradation Models in Water Treatment.” Abstract: The disinfection of drinking water was one of the greatest public health achievements of the 20th century. The inactivation of... Read more »
Joe Brown, PhD PE, will present a seminar entitled "The Maputo Sanitation (MapSan) Trial: Measuring Health Impacts of Urban Sanitation Improvements." Joe Brown, PhD PE, is an environmental engineer who studies water and santitation in the context of global public health. His research uses tools of environemntal health microbiology, risk assessment, and epidemiology to measure... Read more »
Lisa Smeester, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, will present the second seminar in the department’s Spring 2019 series. Smeester’s talk is titled, “Inorganic arsenic and... Read more »
