Previous News Items
2010
August - Member of the Organizing Committee of the International Water Association's Micropol & Ecohazard 2011 Specialist Conference to be held in Sydney, Australia June 11-13. Abstracts accepted until September 17th, 2010.
May - PhD candidate Anne Galyean is recipient of the National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship Award
January - Weinberg to Chair HiWATE Open Day in London on 23 February
January - $300,000 Award from Water Research Foundation to study Endocrine Activity in Disinfection Byproducts
2009
August - Group Member Bonnie Lyon wins student poster award at Gordon Research Conference on Disinfection Byproducts at Mount Holyoke College
2008
June - First place poster award in the Water Science and Research
Division of the Annual American Water Works Association Conference held
in Atlanta, GA
March - Halogenated Furanones at higher levels in some drinking waters than
previously known
March - Cities rarely release water test results
2007
November - Interview: Scientists stumped over proper disposal of old medicine
February - Weinberg among top authors accessed in Environmental Science and Technology for Oct-Dec 2006
January - Member of the inaugural Peer Review Editorial Board for the Journal of the American Water Works Association
2006
Harrison Prescott Eddy Medal awarded by the Water Environment Federation
August - Opening speaker in the first Gordon Conference on Drinking Water Disinfection ByProducts
Research on disinfection byproducts receives best paper award
EPA awards $525,000 to study common drugs in drinking water
One of 17 members of the search committee convened to select the new department chair (Word document).
2005
Proposal to study the occurrence of one of the most genotoxic chemicals found in water funded in the AwwaRF 2005 unsolicited research program
MS Graduate Student Talia Chalew awarded one of only 3 US EPA STAR Fellowships awarded to UNC-CH in 2005 |