Events for October 2025

Access to safe and affordable water is essential to promote public health and economic development. In recent years, millions of people have been exposed to tap water that violates federal guidelines for pathogens, nitrates, arsenic, and harmful disinfection by-products. In a community water system, water quality problems arise when stagnation leads to depleted chlorine residuals, […]

Marzieh Shojaei Is Clean Energy Completely Clean? Environmental Challenges of Lithium-ion Batteries. Sai Thejaswini Pamuru Improving Nutrient Retention, Plant Productivity, and Soil Health using Liposomal Carriers

Dr. Turksin and Dr. DeWitt from Oak Ridge National Laboratory will soon be teaching a short course on simulation of additive manufacturing processes. See below for more details. Anybody interested is welcome to join: Faculty, Postdocs, Graduate, and Undergraduate Students. Title: Modeling and Simulation of Additive Manufacturing Processes Instructors: Bruno Turcksin and Stephen DeWitt (Oak […]

In the environment, air and water transport a wide variety of constituents, including nutrients, pollution, droplets, aerosols, dust, and even bugs. Predicting where these things end up, and in what abundance, is a difficult enterprise; this difficulty impacts a huge range of scientific disciplines, and limits our ability to predict future environmental conditions and engineer […]

UV-C irradiation (200-280 nm) is known to be effective for pathogen disinfection in air and water treatment and the conventional low-pressure mercury vapor lamp emitting at 254 nm has been employed for over 100 years. Since the coronavirus pandemic, interest in the use of Far-UVC (200-235 nm) has grown as this wavelength range is not […]