Chideraa Ndubuisi received 2nd Place Poster Award at NC One Water student conference for his poster on microplastics in wastewater biosolids.

Chideraa Ndubuisi received a student grant from the NC Water Resources Research Institute for his project entitled “Assessment and Mitigation of Microplastic Pollution in Treated Wastewater and Biosolids: A Focus on Primary and Secondary Solids”.

Kelsey Sikon received People’s Choice Award at the university 3MT competition for her research on microplastics in wastewater

Xueying was one of the eight finalists of the Three-Minute Thesis competition at the Conference for Southern Graduate Schools in Knoxville, TN.  Congratulations, Xueying!

Xueying Brown won UNC Charlotte’s Three-Minute Thesis competition – both First Place and People’s Choice! – and will be representing our university at the Southeast Region competition.  Her presentation was based on her work studying the role of environmental buffers in potable water reuse.

PhD student Nicole Kennedy Neth and Dr. Keen traveled to Malmo, Sweden, to present their research at the International Water Association NOM 6 conference.  Travel was funded by NSF travel award No. 1521562.  (more…)

Dr. Keen was appointed as a Chair of Organic Contaminants Research Committee for the American Water Works Association (more…)

Keen Lab research was in the spotlight at the 2015 Annual Meeting of American Chemical Society in Denver.  Watch the press release video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa0UmgTWUz8&list=PLLG7h7fPoH8LtUyqg-vxxZO3GlujdfXh6&index=4 or read about it here: http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/newsreleases/2015/march/chlorine-use-in-sewage-treatment-could-promote-antibiotic-resistance.html

The featured research studied the products that form when a common antibiotic doxycycline is exposed to chlorine during water disinfection.  (more…)

Dr. Keen is featured on ACS Denver twitter campaign #ACSdenver #cenoneword where people whose job involves chemistry were asked to describe their job in one word.  See what she and other people whose job involves chemistry said: https://storify.com/jkemsley/your-job-in-one-word

Dr. Keen was interviewed by the International Ultraviolet Association on her opinion on the challenges women face in engineering.

Read the article here: https://www.iuva.org/news/women-leave-professional- (more…)