Group News
Archive
2016
Jan 21, 2016
Dr. McNamara presents seminar at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Jan 5, 2016
Dr. Masa Fujimoto joins our group as a Research Assistant Professor, and Matthew Marhefke, Matthew Hughes, and Hui Liu join our group as undergraduate researchers. Welcome, everyone! Cheers to a great year.
Jan 1, 2016
Dan Carey's research on triclocarban and antibiotic resistance genes in anaerobic digesters is published in Environmental Science & Technology. Congratulations, Dan!
2015
Dec 1, 2015
Dan Carey's research on using biochar to sorb ammonia for improved grass growth is published.
Oct 21-22
McNamara group hosts professional short-course on Emerging Contaminants in Water and Wastewater.
October 9, 2015
Dr. McNamara presents seminar at Northwestern University.
Sept 30, 2015
Former student, John Ross, presents MS research at WEFTEC in Chicago. Excellent work, John!
Sept 28, 2015
Dr. McNamara's research on PFOS and triclosan is published in Microbiology Insights.
Sept 17, 2015
Dr. McNamara presents seminar at University of Notre Dame.
Sept 4, 2015
Astera Sundance and Erik Anderson join our group as undergraduate researchers. Welcome aboard!
June 16, 2015
Dr. McNamara receives 2-year grant funded by inaugural Innovation Fund at Marquette.
June 13-16, 2015
Dan Carey, Emily Gorsalitz and Yiran Tong present research at 2015 AEESP conference, and Dr. McNamara hosts session on micropollutants and microbial ecology.
May 18, 2015
Tino Kalayil joins the group as an undergraduate researcher this summer. Welcome aboard, Tino!
May 16, 2015
John (Oliver) Haugland, Thomas Hoffman and John Ross walk for graduation. A very proud moment for the group.
April 29, 2015
Yiran presents research at NSF-WEP Center meeting, well done, Yiran!
Mar 30, 2015
Thomas Hoffman defends MS thesis. Truly excellent work, Tom. You should be proud, congratulations.
Jan 26, 2015
Proposal funded by Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District on "The hidden value of heat-drying biosolids". Always a pleasure to work with MMSD.
Jan 19, 2015
Melinda Choi joins our group to conduct an undergraduate research project. #tonsoffun. Remember, the sound of glass breaking is just the sound of progress. Welcome aboard, Melinda.
Jan 15, 2015
Dan's review paper on triclosan and antibiotic resistance in the environment is officially published in Frontiers in Microbiology. Congrats, Dan! Job well done.
Jan 5, 2015
Emily Gorsalitz joins us from Symbiont as a new PhD student. Emily earned her MS from Craig Just at Iowa. Welcome, Emily!
2014
Dec 15, 2014
June ES&T article was selected by ScienceNews as part of their "Year in Review: Top 25."
Dec 9, 2014
Announced that Dan and Tom are 2 of the 3 winners of the Forward Thinking Research Colloquy. Way to represent! Nice work, guys.
Dec 2, 2014
Yiran, Dan, John, and Tom each give oral presentations at Marquette's Forward Thinking Research Colloquy.
Nov 14, 2014
John accepts consulting job with Symbiont. Congratulations, John! Let me know when you can give a guest lecture in Industrial Wastewater Treatment :-)
Nov 5, 2014
John Ross successfully defends thesis! Actually, more than defends, he rocked it. Congrats, John, very fortunate to have you as my first MS student.
Oct 27, 2014
Proposal co-written by PhD student, Yiran Tong, is funded by NSF-WEP Center "Using Pyrolysis Product Biochar to Capture Micropollutants". Congrats, Yiran!
Oct 1, 2014
Dan Carey and Tom Hoffman present their research at WEFTEC in New Orleans.
Sept 5, 2014
Dr. McNamara is awarded a generous grant from the Lafferty Family Foundation to research "The Effect of Everyday Antimicrobial Chemicals on the Spread of Antibiotic Resistance." Thank you Lafferty Foundation!
Aug 13, 2014
Yiran presents poster on "The Fate of Micropollutants During Nutrient Removal Using Novel Adsorbents for Dilute Wastewater Streams" at ACS in San Fran.
Aug 11-13, 2014
Dan Carey's poster is presented at ACS: "Role of triclocarban and triclosan on functional health and proliferation of antibiotic resistance genes in anaerobic digestion."
Aug 8, 2014
Dr. Zhongzhe Liu presents "Demonstration Scale Production of Nutrient-Enhanced Biochar via Biosolids Pyrolysis" at Midwest Biochar Conference.
July 11, 2014
Dr. Mayer and Dr. McNamara are awarded an NSF Grant: "I/UCRC FRP: Electrocoagulation for the mitigation of emerging biological and chemical contaminants" Email brooke.mayer@mu.edu to inquire about graduate research assistant opportunities.
June 23, 2014
Dr. Mayer and Dr. McNamara are awarded an NSF-CORBI grant with ASU: "Coupled titanium dioxide photocatalysis and filtration for simultaneous reduction of organic matter, viruses, and estrogenic compounds" Email brooke.mayer@mu.edu to inquire about graduate research assistant opportunities.
June 19, 2014
Dr. McNamara's ES&T paper is focus of news article in ScienceNews. PBS also covers the story.
May 19, 2014
Dr. McNamara returns to Austin, TX to present two papers at WEF Residuals and Biosolids Conference, including "Pyrolysis of Wastewater Biosolids: Lab-Scale Experiments and Modeling."
April 10, 2014
Dr. McNamara presents anchor seminar at UW-Milwaukee School of Freshwater Sciences.
March 17, 2014
Dr. McNamara presents research at 247th National ACS meeting in Dallas, TX on the "Impacts of triclosan on methanogenic community structure, function, and antimicrobial resistance."
Feb 25, 2014
Tom presents research poster on "Removal of Environmental Estrogenic Micropollutants from Wastewater Solids" at the 2014 Borchardt Conference in Ann Arbor, MI.
Feb 25, 2014
John presents research poster on "Fate of Micropollutants During Pyrolysis of Biosolids" at the 2014 Borchardt Conference in Ann Arbor, MI.
Jan 14, 2014
Oliver joins us as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome, Oliver.
Jan 6, 2014
Yiran Tong joins us from UW-Milwaukee. Welcome, Yiran.
2013
Dec 3, 2013
Dan gives oral presentation on "How Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria Can Arise in Wastewater Treatment and Techniques for Mitigation" at Marquette University Forward Thinking Symposium.
Dec 3, 2013
Tom and John present posters at Forward Thinking Symposium, MU.
Nov 26, 2013
Dr. McNamara presents seminar at UW-Madison.
Oct 7, 2013
Dan Carey presents research at WEFTEC on using biochar to immobilize nutrients from wastewater.
Aug 14, 2013
Dr. McNamara presents at CSWEA Pretreatment Seminar.
Aug 1, 2013
John Ross joins us from Brown and Caldwell. Welcome, John.
July 15, 2013
Dr. McNamara hosts session on micropollutants at AEESP conference.
July 1, 2013
Tom Hoffman joins us from Villanova. Welcome, Tom.