Card Making

Card Making

Come make some cards and learn more about Alpha Phi Omega, the service-based gender-inclusive fraternity on campus! 

Welcome Back GBM

Welcome Back GBM

Jump back into the semester with our Welcome Back GBM! We will be meeting in Snell 175 on January 16th at 7:00 to go over upcoming events and answer any questions. Sign up here!

Institute for a Sustainable Environment Newsletter: January 2024

Institute for a Sustainable Environment Newsletter: January 2024

Message From the Director

At the top of this month's Institute for a Sustainable Environment Newsletter is news of our new undergraduate degree program in environmental science and sustainability. It's a revision of our environmental science & policy degree, with concentrations to allow students to focus within the broad field of environmental science and sustainability. We also have lots of news about research by our ISE faculty and affiliated faculty, as well as students. I hope that you enjoy reading about their accomplishments below.

— Susan Powers, Director of the Institute for a Sustainable Environment / Associate Director of Sustainability / Jean ’79 and Robert ’79 Spence Professorship in Sustainable Environmental Systems
 

New Degree

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A female student in green pants partially kneels down and reaches her hand into a river and a second student in a blue shirt bends over and uses a tube to look beneath the surface of the river.

The most pressing environmental issues -- such as greenhouse gas emissions and the overuse of disposable plastics -- can be traced back to human decisions. In addressing these issues it is vital to understand both the scientific and policy aspects that impact the planet. A new Bachelor of Science degree program in Environmental Science and Sustainability will prepare students to tackle both of these challenges.
Read About This New Degree
 

Going for Gold

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Group of 14 people posing with a mounted map of the Adirondack Park

Eight students have been deeply involved in the recertification of New York State’s Olympic Region as a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) community. The students are helping the Olympic Regional Development Authority, the Village of Lake Placid, the Town of North Elba and the Lake Placid Central School District go for sustainability gold as they look to recertify using the latest LEED rating system.
Read About This Project
 

DoD Supports PFAS Treatment

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ESTCP logo (green letters ESTCP with Department of Defense logo on the left)

A Clarkson team has been awarded a $1.2 million Department of Defense grant to scale up an integrated treatment system to destroy PFAS in sediments. The system includes mechanochemical ball milling, which destroys PFAS in soils and sediments, followed by soil washing and plasma treatment.
Read More About This Grant
 

Phosphate Removal Tech

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side-by-side portraits of Silvana Andreescu and Stefan Grimberg

Two Clarkson professors have been awarded $749,000 by the Department of Agriculture to develop a filtration system to capture and recover phosphate from tile drainage and reduce the phosphate burden on watersheds. This sorbent and field-ready system will decrease environmental impact and provide a renewable phosphate supply, improving the sustainability of agricultural practices.
Read More About This Award
 

Coulter School of Engineering Newsletter: January 2024

Coulter School of Engineering Newsletter: January 2024

Message From the Dean

Major government support for our research on cleansing the environment of contaminants –  like PFAS in soil, phosphate in our watersheds and organohalogens in our waste streams – tops our Coulter School of Engineering Newsletter this month. You'll also find an interesting article on respiratory emissions by children, as well as accomplishments by our students and our celebration of 50 years of the Society of Women Engineers here at Clarkson. Please enjoy reading about the achievements of our students and faculty.

— Bill Jemison, Dean of the Wallace H. Coulter School of Engineering / Tony Collins Professor of Innovative Engineering Culture

DoD Supports PFAS Treatment

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ESTCP logo (green letters ESTCP with Department of Defense logo on the left)

A Clarkson team has been awarded a $1.2 million Department of Defense grant to scale up an integrated treatment system to destroy PFAS in sediments. The system includes mechanochemical ball milling, which destroys PFAS in soils and sediments, followed by soil washing and plasma treatment.
Read More About This Grant
 

Phosphate Removal Tech

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side-by-side portraits of Silvana Andreescu and Stefan Grimberg

Two Clarkson professors have been awarded $749,000 by the Department of Agriculture to develop a filtration system to capture and recover phosphate from tile drainage and reduce the phosphate burden on watersheds. This sorbent and field-ready system will decrease environmental impact and provide a renewable phosphate supply, improving the sustainability of agricultural practices.
Read More About This Award
 

Dehalogenating Waste Streams

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Prof. Prof. Selma Mededovic standing with her arms folded, in front of laboratory equipment.

Prof. Selma Mededovic Thagard has been awarded a $422,000 National Science Foundation grant for her research on the dehalogenation of waste streams using electrical discharge plasma. Dehalogenation of waste streams is at the forefront of the major engineering challenges facing society, with more than 10,000 organohalogens impacting the environment.
Read More About This NSF Grant
 

Children's Respiratory Particle Emissions

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Red AAAR logo with acronym "AAAR" in white letters at bottom and graphic of vertical lines above.

An article by a Clarkson research team, recently published in the journal Aerosol Science and Technology, explains their findings that age influences the size and quantity of respiratory particle emissions in humans during activities, with children releasing fewer and smaller particles than adults. Thus, incorporating age demographics into disease transmission models may improve their accuracy.
Read About This Article

Snowmagedon

Snowmagedon

AKPsi recruitment event offering hot cocoa and cookie decorating.

From to at Quad 100.

Faculty-Student Mixer

Faculty-Student Mixer

Welcome back ChemEs to another semester! To kick off the year, our first event will be a meet and greet with some of the chemical engineering department faculty. Please stop by to learn more about your department and socialize!

Mamma Mia! Auditions

Mamma Mia! Auditions

Are you interested in auditioning for CTC's production of Mamma Mia? If so, now is your chance! Auditions will be held 1/19 from 7pm-10pm and 1/20 from 6pm-9pm in the Student Center MPRs!