Project 4 study featured in NIEHS 'Papers of the Month'

February 8, 2024

Project 4's latest work on filtering arsenic from drinking water is featured in NIEHS's Environmental Factor newsletter. See Culinary-inspired technique removes arsenic from water. The study, pubished in Environmental Science and Technology, was conducted in Paul Westerhoff's lab at Arizona State University. Authors include MEMCARE trainees Alireza Farsad and Mariana Marcos...

Breise and Nwokonkwo elected NEWT SPLC Co-Presidents

September 11, 2023

Congratulations to Emily Briese and Obinna Kwokonkwo, the 2023-2024 co-presidents of the NEWT Student and Postdoc Leadership Council. Both are doctoral candidates at Arizona State University School of Engineering and Project 4 trainees.... Read more about Breise and Nwokonkwo elected NEWT SPLC Co-Presidents

Rudel gives invited Mayo Seminar at Bowdoin

April 21, 2023

Holly Rudel, doctoral trainee on Project 4, gave the Mayo Seminar for the Bowdoin Department of Chemistry (her alma mater!) on Friday, April 21. The title of the seminar was “Strategic design of sustainable materials for drinking water treatment”.

Project 4 Cross-Country Collaborative Externship

April 10, 2023

Holly Rudel (Project 4, Zimmerman Lab, Yale) travelled to Tempe, AZ to visit fellow Project 4 trainees Emily Briese (Westerhoff Lab, ASU) and Srishti Gupta (Muhich Lab, ASU) to learn their techniques for surface complexation modelling and... Read more about Project 4 Cross-Country Collaborative Externship

Novel water filter device deployed in Florence, AZ

April 4, 2023

Mariana Marcos-Hernandez and lab-mate Alireza Farsad reached out to a community in Florence, AZ, where reports from the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (AZDEQ) indicated arsenic levels in well water above the MCL of 10 ppb.... Read more about Novel water filter device deployed in Florence, AZ

Emily Briese to present work on selective adsorption

February 17, 2023

Emily Briese, Project 4 trainee and doctoral student in Paul Westerhoff's lab at Arizona State University (ASU), will present two posters on her water filtration work this February and March. at ASU events.... Read more about Emily Briese to present work on selective adsorption

Talking about Tox - An Interview with Mona Dai

November 19, 2022

Interview with Mona Dai, a doctoral student in Environmental Science & Engineering at the Harvard Paulson School of Engineering & Applied Sciences.... Read more about Talking about Tox - An Interview with Mona Dai

Muhich gives invited seminars on adsorption research

October 12, 2022

Christopher Muhich, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, School for the Engineering of Matter, Transport, and Energy at Arizona State University, and co-Investigator on MEMCARE-SRC Project 4,... Read more about Muhich gives invited seminars on adsorption research

Holly Rudel brings environmental engineering skills to Apple

July 6, 2022

Holly Rudel, a Project 4 trainee and doctoral student in Enviornmental Engineering at the Yale School of Engineering and Applied Science is spending her summer working as the Environmental Technologies intern for Apple in Cupertino, CA. Looking forward to hearing details about her intership this fall...!

Westerhoff speaks at Stanford

May 2, 2022

Paul Westerhoff gave a presentation entitled “Filling the gaps…. Metals in Water: Machine learning fills critical gaps in co-occurrence, removal by point of use adsorbents and recovery as Industrial catalysts” at Stanford University's... Read more about Westerhoff speaks at Stanford

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