News and Updates

2025:

09/30/25: Eve and Sid went to the NJ Department of Environmental Protection’s Listening session at Eva’s Village in Paterson to publicize our ongoing flooding research and recruit participants. (Thank you, USGS, for funding this research!)

09/15/25: Emily Newton, Aniya Elliott, Jules Jusino, Aiman Koli, Sanskriti Malakar, Dan Mayster, Khang Nguyen, and Willem Weigand join the lab. Welcome!

08/28/25 đź“° Magazine: Could lessons from Flint help reduce lead in Ontario schools?. University of Toronto Investigative Journalism.

08/25/25: đź“‘ Paper: Preventing lead (Pb) contamination in rural community water systems in LMICs through analytical screening, policy and standards enforcement, and supply chain interventions. Groundwater for Sustainable Development. 2025.

08/22/25: Jennie Fleurant joins the lab. Welcome Jennie! (current members: Aanand, Charlene, Eve, and Jennie)

08/04-08/25: Sid spent the week learning at UW’s Disaster Research Response workshop as an IDEAAL DR2 Fellow in Seattle.

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 6th NIST Artificial Intelligence for Material Science Workshop in Rockville, MD.

07/05/25: đź“ş 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 đź“° 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.

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

02/17/25 đź“° Magazine: From headaches to tics, how mass nocebo effects spread real symptoms. New Scientist.

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.

đź“‘ 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.