Mariana Lopes pitched our technology to prevent pathogen and biofilm growth in home water systems, including point of use devices. During the Venture Devils Demo Day competition the start-up company received $10,000 to continue building the technology into a company (see timestamp 57:20 during the award ceremony).

EPAZ awards their 2020 scholarship of $2000 to PhD student Juliana Levi (Chemical Engineer) from the Westerhoff group. The scholarships come with cash awards aimed to recognize their excellence in research. Juliana Levi is part of the NSF Nanosystems ERC for nanotechnology enabled water treatment (NEWT).

Paul Westerhoff was selected to receive the A.P. Black Award and his photo appears on the cover of the Journal American Water Works Association June 2020 Issue. Normally the recipient delivers a presentation at the June annual AWWA conference, but due to covid-19 this year he will give a webinar in August 2020. A.P. and…

PhD student Naushita Sharma received $10,000. The Holly A. Cornell Scholarship created in 1990 and sponsored by Jacobs/CH2M honors co-founder Holly A. Cornell to encourage and support outstanding female and/or minority students pursuing advanced training in the field of water supply and treatment.   

Posted by Gary Werner | May 21, 2020 | Features, Research Full story here: https://fullcircle.asu.edu/research/asu-rapidly-engineers-solution-for-medical-staff-battling-covid-19/ On the third Saturday of March, only a few days after Arizona State University directed its community to work remotely in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Paul Westerhoff received an email from a fellow faculty member in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. He learned that a doctor…

Having recently published an article in AWWA Water Science, Natalia Fischer answered a few questions from its editor‐in‐chief Kenneth L. Mercer about the research. Click here to read the published interview. Spotlight Article Chlorine Addition Prior to Granular Activated Carbon Contactors Improves Trihalomethane Control Natalia Fischer, Amlan Ghosh, Binga Talabi, Chad Seidel, and Paul Westerhoff

Kaley Yazzie did a Fulton Undergraduate Research Initiative (FURI) in our lab this spring semester with myself and Dr. Anjali Mulchandani. You can watch a video of her poster here:

The device uses UVC light to kill the novel coronavirus on multiple masks in a matter of minutes. Story here: https://news.azpm.org/p/news-topical-sci/2020/4/14/170028-asu-team-builds-uv-bbq-to-sanitize-masks/ that include a link to an audio file Great work to the ASU team working on the UV disinfection N95 face mask project: Zhe Zhao, Zhaobo Zhang, Mariana Lanzarini-Lopes, Shahnawaz Sinha, Ho Jung Rho,…

ARCS news: https://www.arcsfoundation.org/news/illuminating-water-contamination Most of ARCS Scholar Mariana Lanzarini-Lopes’s life has been impacted by water. When she was young, Mariana lived in Brazil, and water was delivered to her house in big blue canisters. Mariana wondered how people who could not afford it got their clean water. Now a fourth-year doctoral candidate in the Environmental Engineering…