Rittmann Lab Partners with City of Mesa for Food to Energy Feasibility Study

Postdoctoral Scientist Michelle Young, Masters Researcher Rick Kupferer, and Undergraduates Riley Tesman, Veronica Ayala Bojorquez, Aamena Mookadam, and Sam Utley are all part of a project that hopes to divert food waste from landfills into anaerobic sludge digesters that contain microbes that can transform it into a renewable energy source, biogas. Biogas can be cleaned… Continue reading Rittmann Lab Partners with City of Mesa for Food to Energy Feasibility Study

Communicating Science

4/11/2017 by Rick Kupferer ​“Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, ​and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.” -Albert Einstein Many scientists have a bad tendency: they often speak in a way that is incomprehensible to the general public; even worse, they often sound boring!  We don’t… Continue reading Communicating Science