On Saturday, July 21st 2018 our own BSCEB Lab Coordinator, Sarah Arrowsmith, and her husband Mike welcomed son Greyson into their family! Baby Greyson joins 3-year-old big brother Ashton. Congratulations Arrowsmith Family!
Year: 2018
Baby Silvia is our newest Center member!
Professors Anca Delgado and César Torres welcomed daughter Silvia in March of 2018 and she has many lab aunties and uncles to visit her!
The NOT that GREEN business of wind energy in Yucatan, Mexico
(A story of ambition and hope for a better future) by Isaias Peraza Baeza This story began early in 2013. Many exciting things were happening. For instance, the Mayan ‘’end’’ of the world didn’t happen. I was celebrating one year with a Master’s Degree in Sciences of Renewable Energies from the Yucatan Center for Scientific… Continue reading The NOT that GREEN business of wind energy in Yucatan, Mexico
Krajmalnik-Brown Lab Collaboration Featured in 2018 Springer Nature CHANGE THE WORLD Initiative
Microbiota Transfer Therapy alters gut ecosystem and improves gastrointestinal and autism symptoms: an open-label study, by Dae-Wook Kang et al and published in Microbome, was selected to appear as a must-read article as part of the 2018 Springer Nature Change the World initiative.
Dr. Rittmann Shares Words on Water
In this May 28, 2018 podcast, Dr. Bruce Rittmann shares stories about using microbial communities to transform pollutants into resources, applying mathematical modeling to optimize treatment processes, and about how working at a wastewater plant influenced his career. Words On Water features conversations with people who work on water issues and discussions about the opportunities and… Continue reading Dr. Rittmann Shares Words on Water
Alumnus Prathap Parameswaran Receives Kansas NSF EPSCoR Award
Our very own Prathap Parameswaran, now Assistant Professor in Civil Engineering at Kansas State University, is one of five recipients of the first award issued by the Kansas NSF EPSCoR supporting early career research related to Microbiomes of Aquatic, Plant and Soil Systems. Dr. Parameswaran’s project, Smart adaptation of enriched microbiomes in Recovered Nutrient Products (bio‐fertilizers) from… Continue reading Alumnus Prathap Parameswaran Receives Kansas NSF EPSCoR Award
Boyer Lab Members Featured in Video: Peecycling: The #1 Solution
ASU students Claire Cleveland, Jenna Miller, Garr Punnett, and Grace Clark filmed and edited a sustainability documentary titled Peecycling: The #1 Solution, in which members of the Boyer Lab describe various strands of research that involve pharmaceutical removal and resource recovery from an abundant resource: urine. Transforming nutrient use from a destructive linear flow into… Continue reading Boyer Lab Members Featured in Video: Peecycling: The #1 Solution
Yoho and Rittmann Find Little Coverage of Climate Change, Energy Technologies, and Environmental Issues in Undergraduate Textbooks
ASU Now and Miami University featured alumna Rachel Yoho and BSCEB Director Bruce Rittmann’s recent article, “Climate change and energy technologies in undergraduate introductory science textbooks,” in the journal, Environmental Communication. Yoho and Rittmann examined more than 15,000 pages from current editions of 16 leading physics, biology and chemistry undergraduate textbooks published between 2013 and 2015. … Continue reading Yoho and Rittmann Find Little Coverage of Climate Change, Energy Technologies, and Environmental Issues in Undergraduate Textbooks