News and Updates
News and Updates
2025:
12/11/25: Eve co-led a session on projecting NJ children from waterborne lead in their schools alongside The Watershed Institute’s JoLynn Moloughney and Jersey Water Works’ Heather Sorge at the Jersey Water Works 2025 Conference.
12/09/25: Jennie was a panelist and presented on her ongoing research at the Rural Water Supply Network webinar Rapid corrosion of handpumps - can we finally address this issue? with colleagues from across Europe and Africa.
12/03/25 and 11/18/25: Sid presented findings from our new paper on addressing waterborne Pb in rural LMIC systems to the Rural Water Supply Network’s Stop the Rot Action Group (December) and Rutgers Department of Human Ecology (November seminar).
11/25/25 📰 Newspaper: From Harvard to BU to Brown, New England schools are enrolling fewer new PhDs this year. Why?. Boston Globe.
10/30/25: Conference: Sid participated in a Side Event organized by the Global Lead Free Water Initiative at the UNC Water and Health Conference 2025.
10/23/25: Charlene led our efforts at the Lead Free Expo in Chester, PA, to publicize our ongoing study and conduct real-time lead testing for community members. (Thank you, NIEHS and Penn Medicine, for funding this work!)
10/02/25: The University of Washington RAPID facility sent us their Bruker XRF to conduct a laboratory challenge study. Eve and Charlene had a grand time running a between-device comparison with our lab’s in-house Vanta XRF. Photos to come. (Thank you, NIEHS and Penn Medicine, for funding this work! And thank you, Jaq and colleagues from RAPID and NSF/NIH, for providing researchers nationwide with inexpensive access to cutting-edge instrumentation.)
09/30/25: Eve led our team at the NJ Department of Environmental Protection’s Listening session at Eva’s Village in Paterson to publicize our ongoing flooding research and recruit participants. (Thank you, USGS, for funding this research!)
09/15/25: Emily Newton, Aniya Elliott, Jules Jusino, Aiman Koli, Sanskriti Malakar, Dan Mayster, Khang Nguyen, and Willem Weigand join the lab. Welcome!
08/28/25 📰 Magazine: Could lessons from Flint help reduce lead in Ontario schools?. University of Toronto Investigative Journalism.
08/25/25: 📑 Paper: Preventing lead (Pb) contamination in rural community water systems in LMICs through analytical screening, policy and standards enforcement, and supply chain interventions. Groundwater for Sustainable Development. 2025.
08/22/25: Jennie Fleurant joins the lab. Welcome, Jennie! (current members: Aanand, Charlene, Eve, and Jennie)
08/04-08/25: Sid spent the week learning at UW’s Disaster Research Response workshop as an IDEAAL DR2 Fellow in Seattle.
07/08/25: Eve Butterworth joins the lab. Welcome, Eve! (current members: Aanand, Charlene, and Eve)
07/06/25: Aanand presented his poster at the 6th NIST Artificial Intelligence for Material Science Workshop in Rockville, MD.
07/05/25: 📺 HxA 2025 Conference Panel: The Well-intended Perversion of Science. Free the Inquiry Substack.
06/19/25: 🔬 Preprint: Lead (Pb) leaching from galvanized handpump tanks, leaded brass taps, and stainless-steel alternatives used in rural LMIC settings using NSF 61 protocol. Under Review.
06/03/25 📰 Magazine: The Uncertain and Shifting Future of Ph.D.s in Science. Undark.
05/11/25: Charlene and Leyla presented their poster at NJWEA Annual Conference in Atlantic City, NJ
04/29/25: Aanand, Bobo, Charlene, Ella, and Leyla presented their research posters at the Aresty Symposium at Rutgers.
📑 Paper: Foresight 2035: a perspective on the next decade of research on the management of Legionella spp. in engineered aquatic environments. FEMS Microbiology Reviews.
02/17/25 📰 Magazine: From headaches to tics, how mass nocebo effects spread real symptoms. New Scientist.
2024:
11/07/24 🗣️ Radio: Denver Water is halfway through replacing lead pipes. Why didn’t this happen sooner? . NPR and NPR Colorado.
10/10/24 🗞️ News: Are teachers’ views hurting Flint student learning more than lead? Study fuels fight. Detroit News.
10/30/24 9a-1p ET 📅 Event: 🇺🇸 / 🇫🇷 Reducing Lead Exposure: Evolution of Priorities and Regulation. Columbia and Sorbonne.
📑 Paper: A Possible Nocebo Effect in Children Following the Flint Water Crisis: Evidence From Schoolteacher Perceptions and Neuropsychological Evaluations. Disaster Med Public Health Prep 2024.