Faculty News
- Assistant Professor Joseph Kasprzyk, working alongside Associate Professor Lisa Dilling of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ’s Environmental Studies Program and Rebecca Smith of the Bureau of Reclamation, researched the potential for water agencies to use multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) to enhance their long-term planning. Their research was recently published in the journal Environmental Modelling and Software.
- Professor JoAnn Silverstein has been awarded the 2019 Perry L. McCarty AEESP Founders’ Award for her Sustained and Outstanding Contributions to Environmental Engineering Education and Practice. Professor  Karl G. Linden was selected to receive the 2019 Walter J. Weber Jr. AEESP Frontier in Research Award for his recognized research leadership and pioneering efforts in a new and innovative research are.
- When high school students from rural Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ research air quality as it relates to the things that interest them most, the result is enthusiastic students and one-of-a-kind projects.
- Outdoor air has been regulated for decades, but emissions from daily domestic activities may be more dangerous than anyone imagined. Assistant Professor Nina Vance was featured in the New Yorker for her HomeChem indoor air quality research.
- Associate Professor Fernando Rosario-Ortiz has been appointed the new director of the Environmental Engineering (EVEN) Program, effective July 1.
- Professor Dr. Angela R. Bielefeldt was named a 2019 President’s Teaching Scholar (PTS). The award is the highest honor for teaching at the university level and recognizes Dr. Bielefeldt’s efforts to improve student learning both inside and outside the classroom.
- Assistant Professor Julie Korak was awarded the 2018 Membrane Treatment Best Paper Award from the American Water Works Association (AWWA) for her paper Nanofiltration to Improve Process Efficiency of Hexavalent Chromium Treatment Using Ion Exchange
- Many people worry about outdoor air pollution, especially on days where smog hangs in a brown cloud over a city. Few, however, consider the air quality in their own home. EVEN Assistant Professor Dr. Marina Vance recently spoke at the American
- CEAE Professor Dr. John Crimaldi is the lead PI for the NSF’s Odor Navigation Project. The project is aiming to understand the behavior of odor plumes and their relation with animals’ brains in order to develop technology that can navigate based on
- EVEN Faculty Professor Amy Javernick-Will and Professor Sherri Cook alongside CVEN PhD Candidate Allie Davis have recently been published in the journal Science of the Total Environment. This new publication titled “The use of qualitative