Archive for the In the Media Category

A Big Idea to Tackle Global Water Contamination

Our lab’s long-time efforts in developing cost-effective arsenic remediation technologies was featured in Rudd Family Foundation’s Big Ideas contest. You can read about the Gadgil […]

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ECAR and ACAIE featured on Berkeley Engineering website

Read about the Gadgil Lab’s history and progress in providing efficient and affordable arsenic removal technologies and providing clean drinking water to people in India […]

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Addressing arsenic problems in rural CA

Addressing arsenic problems in rural CA

Read this Op-Ed by Ashok Gadgil and Dana Hernandez discussion Arsenic in groundwater in rural California.

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Samantha Hing wins the Joan Daisy Award!

Samantha Hing wins the  Joan Daisy Award!

Congratulations to Samantha Hing, PhD Candidate in the GadgilLab for winning the Joan Daisy Award for her work on improving air quality and the impacts […]

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Project Update: Field trial of emerging treatment technology, Electrochemical Arsenic Remediation, on farm in Allensworth, CA

Project Update: Field trial of emerging treatment technology, Electrochemical Arsenic Remediation, on farm in Allensworth, CA

This summer from June-July, 2019, Sara Glade, PhD Candidate, tested an arsenic treatment technology called ECAR (Electrochemical Arsenic Remediation) on a farm in Allensworth, California. […]

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Sara Glade, Gabriel Lobo, Bavisha Kalyan, Arkadeep Kumar, and Dana Hernandez at the 2019 Bay Area WASH Symposium

Water group researchers presented at the Bay Area Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) symposium held on May 3, 2019 at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Lab Water Technology Among Best in the World

Lab Water Technology Among Best in the World

Water-purifying technology developed at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (Berkeley Lab) was named among only five in the world that meet current international standards in a […]

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Gadgil Group at ACS

Gadgil Group at ACS

Gabriel Lobo, Dana Hernandez, and Arkadeep Kumar attended the American Chemical Society’s (ACS) 2019 National Meeting & Expo in Orlando Florida. Gabriel Lobo presented his […]

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Sara Glade & Dana Hernandez at AWWA CA-NV Sp 2019

Sara Glade and Dana Hernandez attended the American Water Works Association, California-Nevada Section Spring 2019 Conference. Sara Glade presented her work on a scalable ECAR […]

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Combating arsenic-water crisis in rural India

Combating arsenic-water crisis in rural India

“The Better India” news outlet reported Gadgil’s lab technological innovation which has been providing drinking water to rural communities in West Bengal at just 60 […]

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Dirty cookstoves is “our” problem, not just a poor women’s problem

Dirty cookstoves is "our" problem, not just a poor women's problem

In May 2017, Dr. Ashok Gadgil spoke to a diverse audience at UC Berkeley about the life impairing challenges faced by over a billion women […]

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“A chat with Prof. Ashok Gadgil” at IIT-Bombay

"A chat with Prof. Ashok Gadgil" at IIT-Bombay

Dr. Ashok Gadgil sat down for an interview about sustainability and development engineering on January 24, 2017. In the video below, Dr. Gadgil answers thought-provoking questions from […]

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Factors Governing the Performance of Bauxite for Fluoride Remediation of Groundwater

Globally, 200 million people drink groundwater contaminated with fluoride concentrations exceeding the World Health Organization’s recommended level (WHO-MCL = 1.5 mg F–/L). This study investigates […]

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Tang Lecture for Art Rosenfeld

Ashok Gadgil was asked by his former doctoral advisor and friend and mentor, Arthur Rosenfeld, to deliver the highly prestigious Tang Lecture.    Rosenfeld is the […]

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Ashok Gadgil gave a talk at Subir & Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies

Ashok Gadgil was asked by the Subir and Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies, Institute for South Asia Studies(ISAS) at UC Berkeley to deliver a lecture on […]

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Gadgil on Berkeley’s VC Research website

UC Berkeley’s Vice Chancellor for Research has a site called “Excellence in Research“.  The site posted an article on April 25, 2016, summarizing some of Prof. Gadgil’s […]

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Engineering water research opportunity in India for Spring 2016

  Spend six months working towards arsenic-safe drinking water in rural India Over 100 million people in rural South Asia have only arsenic-contaminated  water to […]

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When an engineer explores behavior change: some thoughts and pictures from Caroline Delaire’s field work in India.

              Caroline Delaire, 3rd year PhD student in the Gadgil Lab, was given the opportunity to write about her […]

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Ashok Gadgil in IEEE Spectrum

Ashok Gadgil in IEEE Spectrum

Professor Gadgil is the featured profile under Geek Life in the IEEE Spectrum in the issue dated Feb. 28, 2015. The article, by Evan Ackerman, […]

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ECAR team at Indo-US Science and Technology Form (IUSSTF) Tech Expo meeting at Greater Noida in India

L-R: Professor Ashok Gadgil, Dr Susan Amrose, Professor Joyashree Roy, Mr Raja Mohanty ( 18th Nov 2014)    

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