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…

Research from a recent Masters student in our group was just published in Environmental Science: Nano. The paper is entitled: Graphite nanoparticle addition to fertilizers reduces nitrate leaching in growth of lettuce (Lactuca sativa). Abstract Nitrogen leaching into groundwater occurs in nearly all intensively-fertilized agriculture applications and poses growing environmental and human health risks such…

A good indicator of researchers’ impact is the number of times their work is cited by peers as useful in enabling further research advances. ASU recently had 10 of its faculty members ranked among the most frequently cited researchers in the world. The list includes Paul Westerhoff, an ASU Regents’ Professor in the Fulton Schools…

Safe and Sustainable Innovation of Water Treatment Technology The Westerhoff Research Group, as part of our NSF Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Nanotechnology Enabled Water Treatment (newtcenter.org) is searching for a motivated environmental or chemical engineering PhD student to contribute and help lead our safety and sustainable cross-cutting theme in our center. NEWT offers opportunities…

UPDATE: After winning the Phoenix Competition in Oct’19, watch her final pitch in Berlin, Germany in Nov’19 at the 2019 Falling Walls Lab competition. Watch Pitch here News highlights can be found here too: From Brasil  A PhD student at Arizona State University who is finding a way to clean water with light will get…