Environmental Engineering & Toxicology

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Mulvaney presents Labor, Land, and Waste Across the Life Cycle of Solar Power

Dustin Mulvaney is presenting a webinar on Wednesday, Dec 8, 2021 to the IEEE’s Santa Clara Valley Sustainability Chapter on Labor, Land, and Waste Across the Life Cycle of Solar Power.
December 1, 2021
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Kevin Kung's company wins Prince William's inaugural Earthshot Prize

Globally, we generate $120 billion of agricultural waste every year. What farmers cannot sell, they often burn, with catastrophic consequences for human health and the environment. Takachar has developed a cheap, small-scale, portable technology that attaches to tractors in remote farms. The award-winning machine converts crop residues into sellable bio-products like fuel and fertilizer, and reduces smoke emissions by up to 98%.
November 11, 2021
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Poindexter starts new job at Sila Nanotechnologies Inc.

Jeremy Poindexter has taken a position as Senior Battery Engineer, Automative Programs, for Sila Nanotechnologies Inc. Through new battery materials chemistry, Sila Nano produces high energy density lithium-ion batteries for mass adoption of electric vehicles, smarter, longer-lasting portable electronics, and broader use of renewable power sources. Congratulations, Jeremy!
November 11, 2021
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Settlement proposed to clean up mercury in the Penobscot River

Karen Merritt was part of an environmental engineering study resulting in a proposed settlement to clean up mercury contamination in the Penobscot River.
September 22, 2021
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TED Talk by Nithya Ramanathan - The problem of vaccine spoilage

Refrigerators do much more than store your groceries -- they're also vital to preserving and distributing vaccines. Illustrating the realities of (and threats to) global vaccine supply chains, technologist, TED Fellow and Switzer Fellow Nithya Ramanathan describes how smart sensors placed in fridges that store medical supplies can provide crucial, real-time data and ensure people get the life-saving care they need.
August 1, 2021
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Eshaan Patheria

2021 Fellow
Eshaan Patheria is a PhD candidate in Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). His research aims to develop low-cost, energy-dense and long-lasting next generation batteries for renewable energy storage at scale...
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Timnit Kefela

2021 Fellow
Timnit Kefela is an environmental scientist, organizer and educator who seeks to better understand (micro)plastic pathways, fates and impacts in effort to inform and design liberatory infrastructural solutions for pollution mitigation and...
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Aaron Maruzzo

2021 Fellow
Aaron Maruzzo is a MPH graduate from the Environmental Health Sciences department at UC Berkeley School of Public Health. He joined UC Berkeley after three years of working as the Water Lab Analyst for the municipal water company in the U.S...
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Nithya Ramanathan selected as a 2021 TED Fellow

Nithya Ramanathan, Founder and CEO of Nexleaf, is shaping the future by keeping vaccines safe.
April 28, 2021
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Miner's research on PFAS on Everest featured in GQ magazine

In April of 2019, a team of scientific researchers and documentarians arrived at Mount Everest’s southern basecamp in Nepal to measure the impacts of climate change and human activity on the world’s tallest mountain. The pollution team, led by University of Maine Assistant Professor Kimberley Miner, lugged heavy scientific equipment up the most popular ascent route. At each stop, Miner's team took samples of snow, the same snow climbers were boiling and drinking, the same snow that melted each summer and provided water for people living in the valleys below.
February 6, 2021