News

September, 2019

Zach was selected as a recipient of a Waste Industries Scholarship Honoring Lonnie C. Poole Jr. by the Environmental Research & Education Foundation (EREF). His research focuses on developing novel methods for resource recovery from food waste.

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September, 2019

Lauren was selected as a 2019 Gulf Research Program Early Career Research Fellow by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine!

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February, 2019

Lauren's paper on oxygen-half saturation constants for pharmaceuticals in activated sludge was published in ES&T!

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.est.8b06051

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November, 2018

Laney was selected as a Loewenstern Fellow in International Civic Research this summer! She will travel to Mexico this summer to work with the Fundación Cántaro Azul and advance solutions for safe water! Congrats Laney!!

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September 7, 2018

Prashant presented a poster at the Innovation Symposium here at Rice! He presented his research on microbial memory for biosensing applications. 

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August 17, 2018

Eric presented his research on gas-reporting broad host range plasmids for in situ detection of conjugation at ISME in Leipzig! 

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August 3, 2018

Yulisa presented her NSF BioNetworks REU summer research at the IBB Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium! She starts at Texas A&M in the fall - congrats Yulisa!

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July 30, 2018

Our paper on microbial contaminants in floodwaters and sediments post-Hurricane Harvey was published in ES&T Letters! Read it here.

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June 22, 2017

Eric, Andrew, and Lauren attended the 2017 AEESP Research and Education Conference in Ann Arbor, MI!

• Eric gave a talk on "In situ detection of conjugative transfer of broad host range plasmids containing antibiotic resistance genes;" 

• Andrew presented a poster on "Life cycle assessment of feed production using algae-based nutrient recovery from domestic wastewater;" and

• Lauren gave a talk on "Life cycle assessment of solar-driven membrane distillation with nano-enabled photothermal membranes for house-hold drinking water supply."

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June 22, 2017

Andrew received an AEESP conference student travel award sponsored by Carollo! Congrats, Andrew!

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April 20, 2017

Jim moved to Lincoln, NE where he took a position as a postdoctoral research assistant at University of Nebraska- Lincoln. Congrats, Jim!

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March 30, 2017

Andrew received an honorable mention for a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship!

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Andrew also received the TEF Jimmy H. Smith, Ph.D., P.E. Graduate Scholarship and the Harrianna Butler Scholarship! Congrats, Andrew!