The consulting firm Ardurra will fund an investigation of PFAS treatment performance by commercial sorbents for addressing contamination in municipal drinking water.

Moji’s dissertation was titled INFLUENCE OF PHOTOREACTOR DESIGN PARAMETERS ON THE PERFORMANCE OF ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT-INDUCED DEGRADATION OF PER-AND POLYFLUOROALKYL SUBSTANCES BY BISMUTH OXY HYDROXY PHOSPHATE AND HEXAGONAL BORON NITRIDE PHOTOCATALYSTS

He will join the research group of Prof. Chris Higgins as a postdoc at the Colorado School of Mines

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.estlett.3c00363

Master’s student Laura DiGiacomo took first prize in the WEASC poster competition held at the South Carolina Environmental Conference in Myrtle Beach, SC. She presented her work on landfill leachate pretreatment methods to improve efficiency of PFAS destruction technologies.

After some daunting pandemic related delays, we finally welcome new PhD student Eman Alhamdan to the Cates Group! Eman holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Jordan University of Science and Technology, and a M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Alabama Huntsville.

A paper by our group, titled “Quantification and modeling of the response of surface biofilm growth to continuous low intensity UVC irradiation” was selected as UV Paper of the Year (2020) by the International Ultraviolet Association. The paper can be found here

The Cates Lab is excited to welcome two new students, joining in summer 2021!

Ehsan Bouteh (PhD student)

Laura Digiacomo (Master’s student)

(See group page for more info)

This new journal is part of an expansion of the parent JHM journal. More information can be found here: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-hazardous-materials-advances