NEWS

📢 04/23, 2021 AWARD Jeffrey won the "Stephen Bialkowski Award in Environmental Chemistry". This award was presented to an undergraduate or graduate in good academic standing. Great job, Jeffrey!

📢 04/19, 2021 BEST POSTER AWARD Calvin won the best poster award in the physical science division for the Student Research Symposium. Great job, Calvin! We are so proud of you! https://research.usu.edu/awards/student-awards/srs-winners/  

📢 04/01, 2021 TWO AWARDS Jeffrey has received the "Marjorie H. Gardner Teaching Award" and Fiona has won the "American Institute of Chemists (AIC) Foundation Undergraduate Award". Big congrats to both of you!  

📢 03/12, 2021     Award  Shan has been awarded the "Staff Employee Association Professional Development Scholarship for the 2021-22 academic year". Congratulations, Shan. Great job!

📢 01/25, 2021     College-level Award  Sean has been selected as the Master’s Student Researcher of the Year in the College of Science. Big congratulations, Sean. We are so proud of you!

📢 12/08, 2020     Award  Fiona won the Department of Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Researcher of the Year. Congratulations, Fiona. We are so proud of you!

📢 11/27, 2020     Research proposal funded  Calvin and Kim's work on determining the rate of transfer of chlorpyrifos between alfalfa leaves and alfalfa leafcutting bee provisions has been selected for funding. This grant was competitive and provided opportunities for undergraduate research. Congratulations, Calvin. We are so proud of you!

📢 10/08, 2020     Paper publication  Shan and Kim's work on a new method for disentangling the contributions of multiple sources of chlorinated paraffins using tree bark was accepted in the Journal of Hazardous Materials. Congratulations!

📢 07/27, 2020     Paper publication  Ashlie and Kim's paper was accepted on Journal of Chromatography A. Congratulations! Great Job, Ashlie.

📢 07/2, 2020     Funding award  Kim, Shan, and Ruiwen's proposal for SEED Grant of USU has been selected for funding. Congratulations!

📢 06/24, 2020     Big Congratulations to Samantha for the award from the College of Science Minigrant!

📢 06/10, 2020     Big Congratulations to Calvin for winning the SETAC Rocky Mountain Scholarship!

Rocky Mountain SETAC is a non-profit regional chapter of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC).  RMSETAC serves the Rocky Mountain region states of Colorado, Montana, Utah, and Wyoming.


📢 05/26, 2020     Paper publication   Kim's work on influence of adjuvants on pesticide soil-air partition coefficients was successfully accepted by Environmental Science & Technology, a high quality journal. Congratulations! https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.0c00964

📢 04/14, 2020     Big Congratulations to Ashlie for the the Marjorie H. Gardner Teaching Award! https://chem.usu.edu/about/awards

📢 02/24, 2020     Dr. Randy Martin from Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Utah State University will give a talk about the chemistry of Cache Valley air pollution on Monday. He will be a guest Lecture to the Environmental Chemistry class. Everyone welcome to attend! (Time: 10:30am-11:20am; Location: Widtsoe 330)

📢 02/05, 2020      Visitor      Dr. Sarah Styler will be visiting our Department  and giving a presentation today. Join us!

📢 01/16, 2020      Prize      The Hageman group won a prize with USU dining services. Congratulations!

📢 01/08, 2020       Paper publication     Shan and Ruiwen's work on shorted chain chlorinated paraffins of atmosphere in Yangze River Delta was successfully accepted by Environmental Pollution, a high quality journal. Congratulations!

📢 12/20, 2019      Paper publication    Sean and Kim's work on pesticide volatilization from agricultural fields using the pesticide loss via volatilization (PLoVo) model was successfully accepted by Environmental Science & Technology, a high quality journal. Congratulations!  

📢 11/03-07, 2019      SETAC Conference     Five days of the SETAC North America meeting was held at the Toronto Convention Centre. Kim and Sean gave interesting presentations of the group research and Ashlie did a great poster at the conference.

📢 09/02, 2019      Paper publication      Mingjing and Kim's work on phthalate esters in biota, air and water in an agricultural area of western China was successfully accepted by  Science of The Total Environmental, a high quality journal. Congratulations!

📢 09/01, 2019     A new member     Dr. Shan Niu joined us as a postdoctoral research fellow. Welcome, Shan!

📢 04/22, 2019     Grant     Jeffrey received research grant from the American Alpine Club to Study Contaminants in Wasatch Snowpack. Big Congratulations to Jeffrey!

📢 02/14, 2019     A new member     Dr. Mingjing He joined us as a visiting scholar. Welcome, Mingjing!