Biodesign News
Lindsay receives Regents' Professor honor
'Boosting' research to develop world's fastest nanomotor
Deep sea exploration from the desert
Overview
The Center for Environmental Biotechnology focuses on developing microbiological systems that capture or develop renewable resources and also prevent or clean up environmental pollution. Our team combines engineering approaches with microbiology and chemistry to reclaim polluted water and generate energy from waste substances. Center researchers combine engineering with microbiology, molecular biology, and chemistry in order to gain an integrated understanding of how microbial ecosystems work and can be controlled to reclaim polluted water, generate energy from waste substances, and improve the public health and sustainability. Read More »
Center News
The Biodesign Institute Recruits Environmental Expert
Researcher Rolf Halden examines fate of man-made chemicals in the environment and their impact on human health
People’s concern in maintaining germ-free homes has led to the widespread use of anti-bacterial soaps and cleaning agents. But the active ingredients of those antiseptic soaps have come under scrutiny due to environmental and human health concerns. Now, ASU Biodesign Institute researcher Rolf Halden and co-workers have shown that antimicrobial ingredients used a half a century ago persist today in estuarine sediments into which New York City and Baltimore have discharged their treated domestic wastewater.
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Rittmann bestowed with top civil engineering society, ASU faculty achievement awards
Bruce Rittmann, PhD, a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering, as well as director of the Center for Environmental Biotechnology at the Biodesign Institute, is to receive the Simon W. Freese Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Additionally, Rittmann has been selected as this year’s recipient of the ASU Faculty Achievement Award in Defining Edge Research, Natural Sciences/Math. Read More »
