Archive for the Group Updates Category

Hanna Breunig awarded an EPA STAR Fellowship

Hanna Breunig, Environmental Engineering PhD student, received an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) STAR fellowship for the coming year. The competitive STAR Fellowship attracts, supports and […]

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Hanna Breunig spent a week in England with the MacArthur Foundation

Hanna spent a week in June at Cranfield University, UK with 17 other 2014 Schmidt-MacArthur Fellows and their mentors, and with the MacArthur Foundation for a […]

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Caroline Delaire at Jadavpur University, Kolkata

Caroline Delaire at Jadavpur University, Kolkata

Caroline is spending a couple of weeks in Kolkata to work with Joyashree Roy and Abhijit Das from the Global Change Program at Jadavpur University […]

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Daniel Wilson arrives in Delhi for Fulbright

Daniel Wilson arrives in Delhi for Fulbright

Daniel Wilson arrived in India on March 31st, 2014 to begin his Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. During his time in India, […]

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Caroline Delaire wins an Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award

Caroline received the 2013-2014 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, sponsored by the GSI Teaching and Resource Center, in recognition for her achievements as a teacher […]

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Hanna Breunig Presented at the AWRA conference in Portland OR Nov 4

Hanna Breunig Presented at the AWRA conference in Portland OR Nov 4

Hanna Breunig gave a lecture at the American Water Resource Association (AWRA) Nov 4 in Portland OR. Her talk was titled “Modeling the danger zone: […]

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Kathleen Lask presents laser research at WSSCI Fall meeting

Kathleen presented at the Western States Section of the Combustion Institute Fall Technical meeting on October 7 at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. Her […]

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2 videos about ECAR!

Check out our 2 videos about ECAR, the arsenic remediation technology designed and developed by the Water Group! Presentation of ECAR 600 L prototype:   […]

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Visiting scholars Amit Dutta and Anupam Debsarkar from Jadavpur University, India

          The short term research grant, Development Impact Lab (DIL), UCB divided into two section: Firstly, to visit the place, that was […]

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Exploring ECAR technology for Arsenic removal in California

As it is widely known, high concentrations of arsenic have been found in California’s groundwater. The California department of Public Health has established a list […]

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Launch of the Development Impact Lab (DIL) at Berkeley

Launch of the Development Impact Lab (DIL) at Berkeley

We are pleased to report that the Development Impact Lab (“DIL”) was recently launched at UC Berkeley, led by Prof. Gadgil as its Principal Investigator.  […]

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Hanna Breunig is a fellow of the 2013 Summer Institute for Future Faculty

Hanna Breunig will take part in a summer institute at UC Berkeley where post-qualifying exam PhD students hone their teaching and communication skills.

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Hanna Breunig will present at the 23rd SETAC Europe Annual Meeting, May 13 in Glasgow, Scotland.

Hanna Breunig will present at the 23rd SETAC Europe Annual Meeting, May 13 in Glasgow, Scotland.

Her research is titled “Understanding the local implications of societal scale technology deployment.” The meeting was held from May 12-18 at the Scottish Exhibition and […]

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Kathleen Lask presents poster at AS&T 2013 research symposium

Kathleen Lask presents poster at AS&T 2013 research symposium

Kathleen presented at the Applied Science & Technology 2013 research symposium on May 4 in Berkeley, CA.  Her poster was titled “Lighting Cones for Haitian […]

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Dr. Carl Wang attending the U.S. EPA intensive training workshop for cookstove regional testing and knowledge centers at Research Triangle Park, NC

The workshop was held January 28 – February 1, 2013 in Research Triangle Park, NC. The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves (GACC) brought technical staff […]

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Danny Wilson gave a talk entitled “Can Cookstoves Pay Off Their Embodied Carbon?” at the 2013 ETHOS conference at Kirkland, WA

The presentation can be found here

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“Engineering for the Global Poor: the role of intellectual property”. Booker et al., 2012. Science and Public Policy

Is intellectual property (IP) inimical to the development and deployment of technologies specific- ally designed for markets with no consumer power, i.e. for the poor? […]

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Daniel Wilson speaks at The American Association of Aerosol Research (AAAR) 2012

Daniel Wilson speaks at The American Association of Aerosol Research (AAAR) 2012

Daniel (Danny) Wilson gave a platform presentation titled “A Balloon-Bourne Platform for Measuring Vertically-Resolved Concentrations of Black Carbon in the Troposphere” at this year’s meeting of the […]

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ECAR team wins the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water!

  We are happy to report that five members of the ECAR team – Ashok Gadgil, Susan Addy, Joyashree Roy, Robert Kostecki, and Case van […]

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Dr. Carl Wang and Katee Lask attended the 2012 OASIS conference at Berkeley

On September 21, Carl and Katee participated in the OASIS (Opportunities for Advancing Solutions in the Sahel) meeting at Berkeley. Picture shows Carl and Katee presenting […]

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