July 14, 2022
Dr. Alex Pullen, Assistant Professor in EEES, has been hard at work studying dust. But not just any dust. Pullen studies the dust that was deposited at the foot of the Andes Mountains in Argentina over the last 1.15 million years. What he and colleagues from the University of South Carolina have learned revealed some […]
July 1, 2022
Biosystems Engineering students Frank Jeffries (junior) and Ethan White (sophomore) split the top prize at the Undergraduate Student Poster competition at the Appalachian State Energy Summit held in Boone, NC June 8-10. Frank’s poster title was Biological Hydrogen Production by Fermentation and Ethan’s was Design of Sediment-Based Microbial Fuel Cells (co-authored by BE student Zachary […]
June 15, 2022
Gavin Gleasman, a doctoral student working with Dr. Kelly Lazar, was awarded a research grant from the Southeastern section of the Geological Society of America (GSA). According to Blair R. Tormey, Secretary/ Treasurer – Southeast Section, GSA, the selection committee received “. . . numerous meritorious proposals and limited funds made for a very competitive […]
June 15, 2022
Environmental contamination by pesticides is a worldwide problem. This is especially the case in developing countries where resources are often lacking for monitoring the levels of contamination using high-tech lab instrumentation. That’s where EEES Ph.D. candidate David Bahamon‑Pinzon comes in. Bahamon‑Pinzon’s research is focused on developing low cost facile electrochemical sensors for amperometric determination of […]
