News and Updates

2025:

07/08/25 Eve Butterworth joins the lab. Welcome Eve! (current members: Aanand, Charlene, and Eve)

07/06/25: Aanand presented his poster at the NIST AI for Material Science workshop in Rockville, MD.

07/05/25 📺 Conference Panel: The Well-intended Perversion of Science. Free the Inquiry Substack.

06/19/25: 🔬 Preprint: Lead (Pb) leaching from galvanized handpump tanks, leaded brass taps, and stainless-steel alternatives used in rural LMIC settings using NSF 61 protocol. Under Review.

06/03/25 📰 Magazine: The Uncertain and Shifting Future of Ph.D.s in Science. Undark.

05/11/25: Charlene and Leyla presented their poster at NJWEA Annual Conference in Atlantic City, NJ

04/29/25: Aanand and Ella, Charlene and Leyla, and Bobo presented their research posters at the Aresty Symposium at Rutgers.

📑 Paper: Foresight 2035: a perspective on the next decade of research on the management of Legionella spp. in engineered aquatic environments. FEMS Microbiology Reviews.

2024:

11/07/24 🗣️ Radio: Denver Water is halfway through replacing lead pipes. Why didn’t this happen sooner? . NPR and NPR Colorado.

10/10/24 🗞️ News: Are teachers’ views hurting Flint student learning more than lead? Study fuels fight. Detroit News.

10/30/24 9a-1p ET 📅 Event: 🇺🇸 / 🇫🇷 Reducing Lead Exposure: Evolution of Priorities and Regulation. Columbia and Sorbonne.

📑 Paper: A Possible Nocebo Effect in Children Following the Flint Water Crisis: Evidence From Schoolteacher Perceptions and Neuropsychological Evaluations. Disaster Med Public Health Prep 2024.