Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences

Retirement of Margaret Louise Thompson, Esquire

Ms. Margaret Thompson has retired from teaching after a distinguished career as a Lecturer in the Department of Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences (EEES). Ms. Thompson joined EEES in 1999 and since then has taught an advanced level course in the Environmental Science and Policy (ENSP) program, ENSP 4000/6000. She brought a wealth of experience […]

The effects of Dehalococcoides species

Dr. David Freedman has been featured in Chemical & Engineering News for his work exploring how microbial communities adapt and even help clean up heavily contaminated environments. Here is a snip of what the article presents: “Dehalococcoides species “use chlorinated solvents as their electron acceptor, the same way that you and I use oxygen,” says David Freedman, […]