Text Box: News 5/3/10 Rob Nerenberg promoted to Associate Professor, with tenure. 4/29/10 Barth Smets of the Technical University of Denmark presents departmental seminar “High-Rate Autotrophic Nitrogen Removal in a Novel Biofilm Geometry: Bridging Microbial Ecology and BioReactor Technology” 4/22/10 Alan Stone of Johns Hopkins University presents departmental seminar “Predicting Pathways and Rates of Biochemical Reactions with Geomaterials” 4/15/10 Charles Bott of the Hampton Roads Sanitation District presents departmental seminar on "Nutrient Removal Upgrades in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed”. 4/1/10 James Drever of the University of Wyoming presents departmental seminar “Groundwaters Associated with Coalbed Methane: Geochemistry and Environmental Issues”. 3/23/10-3/25/10 Caitlyn Shea Butler makes two oral presentations and one poster presentation on Microbial Fuel Cells at ACS Spring 2010 National Meeting & Exposition in San Francisco. 3/27/10 – 3/31/10 Kelly Martin presents paper “Guiding the Development of Membrane-Supported Biofilm Processes through Modeling Studies” at WWTmod2010 in Quebec, Canada 3/18/10 Kartik Chandran of Columbia University presents departmental seminar “Inventories and Triggers of Biogenic Nitrous Oxide from Biological Wastewater Treatment” 3/4/10 Roseann Ford of the University of Virginia presents departmental seminar “Transport Phenomena of Chemotactic Bacteria: Diffusion and Dispersion in Porous Media” 3/1/10 Rob Nerenberg named Director of Graduate Studies for CEGEOS department 1/27/10 Rob Nerenberg receives CAREER award from the National Science Foundation. The five-year project begins in May 2010 and is entitled “Dynamic Structure and Function of Biofilms for Wastewater Treatment” 1/27/10 Glen Daigger, Ph.D., P.E., BCEE, NAE, VP of CH2MHill, presents Challenges in Civil and Environmental Engineering seminar “Integrating Water and Resource Management for Improved Sustainability: Cities of the Future” 1/1/2010 Caitlyn Shea Butler begins as Assistant Professor at ASU in Mesa, Arizona 12/3/09 Chuanwu Xi of the University of Michigan presents departmental seminar “Bacterial Species Interactions in Biofilms in Drinking Water Distribution Systems” 11/20/09 Rob Nerenberg presents seminar at the University of Manitoba, Canada 11/12/09 Jim Alleman of Iowa State University presents departmental seminar “Autothermal Thermophilic Aerobic Digestion: Process, Hardware, and Operational Aspects” 11/10/09 Caitlyn Shea defends doctoral dissertation “Fundamental and Applied Studies of Microbial Fuel Cells for Sustainable Water and Wastewater Treatment”. Congratulations! 10/29/09 Desmond Lawler of University of Texas at Austin presents departmental seminar “Options for Improving Recovery from Inland Brackish Water Desalination Systems" 10/18/08 Brenda Read-Daily presents at IWEA conference in Indianapolis “Nitric and Nitrous Oxide Formation in Wastewater Treatment” 9/29/09 Phil Stewart of the Center for Biofilm Engineering, MSU, presents departmental seminar "Physiology of Bacterial Biofilms" 9/28/09 Lou Licht of Ecolotree presents in Challenges and Innovations in Civil Engineering seminar. 9/13009-9/16/09 Caitlyn Shea, Kelly Martin, and Rob Nerenberg present at the IWA Biofilm Processes: Fundamentals to Applications 2009 in UC Davis, CA. 9/3/09 Paul Bohn of CBE at ND presents departmental seminar “Intelligent Integrated Microfluidics-Molecular Recognition and Catalysis in Single Nanopores and Nanopore Arrays” 6/29/09-6/30/09 Brenda Read-Daily, Leon Downing, and Rob Nerenberg present at the WEF Nutrients conference in Washington, DC 6/22/09 R. Nerenberg presents seminar at Stanford University 5/21/09 R. Nerenberg presents at PERF workshop at Purdue University 5/6/09-5/18/09 R. Nerenberg presents seminars at EAWAG (Zurich), University of Ghent, Delft Technological University, and UNESCO-IHE (Delft) 4/24/2009 Dr. Prakasam Tata gives special lecture "Coping with Water Scarcity and Improving Sanitation in Developing Countries" 4/1/09 Stefan Green of Florida State University presents departmental seminar “Microbial Community Analyses of Nitrate- and Uranium-Contaminated Subsurface Environment: Prospects for Bioremediation” 3/31/09 Brenda Read-Daily defends doctoral research proposal. Congratulations! 3/13/09 R. Nerenberg, B. Read-Daily, C. Shea, and K. Martin attend Microbial Ecology Symposium in Ann Arbor, MI 2/13/09 R. Nerenberg presents seminar at Purdue University - Calumet 1/12/09 R. Nerenberg presents seminar at UC Davis 12/11/08 Nancy Love of the University of Michigan presents departmental seminar 12/4/08 Joe Hughes of Georgia Tech presents departmental seminar 10/20/08 Dan Noguera of the University of Wisconsin – Madison presents departmental seminar 10/19/08 Kelly Martin presents at IWEA conference in Indianapolis 10/17/08 R. Nerenberg presents at AIChE annual conference in Philadelphia 10/30/08 Michelle Scherer of the University of Iowa presents departmental seminar 10/25/08 R. Nerenberg is panel member for a Bioenergy round table at Southern Great Lakes Society for Industrial Microbiology meeting, Chicago, IL 10/20/08 B. Read, C. Shea, and L. Downing present at WEFTEC Chicago, IL 10/16/08 Phillip Jardine of ORNL presents departmental seminar 9/4/08 Eric Roden of the University of Wisconsin presents departmental seminar 8/22/08 R. Nerenberg presents seminar at Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, Stickney, IL 8/12/08 R. Nerenberg presents at IWA North American Membrane Research Conference, Amherst, MA 7/16/08 C. Shea and K. Martin present at IWA Young Professionals Conference, Berkeley, CA 6/1/08 C. Shea, K. Martin, L. Downing, and R. Nerenberg present posters at IWA LET Conference in Zurich 5/27/08 C. Shea and R. Nerenberg present at MFC Symposium at Penn State 5/22/08 Leon Downing defends doctoral dissertation. Congratulations! 5/8/08 Lutgarde Raskin of the University of Michigan presents departmental seminar 5/2/08 R. Nerenberg presents seminar at Rice University 5/1/08 R. Nerenberg presents seminar at University of Texas at Austin 4/10/08 Loring Nies of Purdue University presents departmental seminar 3/13/08 Ryujiro Tsuchihashi, Ph.D., of M&E presents departmental seminar 2/21/08 Josh Boltz, Ph.D., of CH2MHill presents departmental seminar 2/01/08 R. Nerenberg presents seminar at University of Minnesota 12/4/07 Leon Downing defends MS paper. Congratulations! 11/29/07 Lars Angenent of Washington University presents departmental seminar 11/29/07 Leon Downing defends doctoral research proposal. Congratulations! 11/15/07 Pedro Alvarez of Rice University presents departmental seminar 11/15/07 Leon Downing awarded IWEA-Besozzi Scholarship 11/15/07 Caitlyn Shea presents on Microbial Fuel Cells at the IWEA conference, Indianapolis 11/13/07 Caitlyn Shea defends doctoral research proposal. Congratulations! 11/1/07 Paul Bishop of the University of Cincinnati presents seminar 10/15/07 Leon Downing presents on the Hybrid Membrane Biofilm Process at WEFTEC, San Diego CA 10/11/07 Brenda Read defends M.S. thesis. Congratulations! 10/18/07 Michael Semmens of the University of Minnesota presents seminar 9/25/07 R. Nerenberg presents seminar at Loyola University in Chicago 7/31/07 R. Nerenberg presents at AEESP conference, Blacksburg, VA 7/24/07 Margaret Dudley defends MS Thesis. Congratulations! 7/16/07 Peter Clauwaert visits from University of Ghent, Belgium 6/15/07 Brenda Read receives research fellowship from Notre Dame’s Center for Aquatic Conservation 5/07 Kelly Martin selected for summer microbiology course at Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station 5/21/07 Brenda Read and Margaret Dudley present posters at ASM General Meeting, Toronto 5/15/07 R. Nerenberg presents at North American Membranes conference, Orlando FL 3/25/07 C. Shea, K. Martin, and R. Nerenberg present posters at ASM Biofilms 2007, Quebec City 2/14/07 Caitlyn Shea awarded EC-US Transatlantic Biotechnology Fellowship to spend one month at the University of Ghent, Belgium                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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Biofilm Processes

Applied Microbial Ecology

Micropollutants

Membrane Processes

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