Project using fungus to remediate "forever chemicals" receives MnDrive Environment seed grant
BBE professor Jiwei Zhang and his team will receive a post-doctoral seed grant for their project on the development of a fungal platform to concurrently develop a bioremediation application for PFAS (forever chemicals).
Filter uses nanotechnology to remove harmful chemicals from drinking water
BBE Professor Abdennour Abbas and his team's filter is able to capture all types perfluorochemicals, or PFCs, from drinking water, as well as mercury and phosphorus.
Biological remediation of adhesives project receives MnDrive Environment seed grant
BBE professor Steve Severtson and his team's project will identify combinations of fungal degradation for various pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) polymer compositions, structures, and product designs.
BBE researchers develop new tool to help farmers make crop input decisions
The new tool developed by BBE faculty allows farmers to create a budget balance sheet of any nitrogen reduction plans and see the economic and environmental cost, return and margins, all customized to fields under their management.
Researchers look to wastewater treatment plants to recover dwindling phosphorus supplies
Faculty member, Dr. Bo Hu and a team from the University of Minnesota work to develop a more cost effective and efficient way of recovering phosphorus from farm water runoff. Read the full story in the Star Tribune.
A technology race to stop the mass killing of baby chicks
An estimated six billion newly hatched male chicks are killed world-wide every year. BBE Professor, Dr. Abdennour Abbas, is employing machine learning to try and identify differences in gasses released by male and female eggs.
BBE Undergraduates receive hands-on experience in environmental research
BBE researchers involve undergraduate students in both field and lab work to provide relevant work experience for their future careers.
Report pinpoints meat production as the leading source of deadly pollution
Research from BBE's Jason Hill finds that animal production is responsible for the vast majority of air quality-related health impacts from U.S. food.
People of color hardest hit by air pollution from nearly all emission sources
BBE researcher Jason Hill was part of a study that provides new context to environmental injustices. Results indicate that emission sources that disproportionately expose people of color are pervasive throughout American society.
Researchers use computer imaging for early detection of blight on wheat
With the use of computer imaging and mask region convolutional neural network (Mask-RCNN), researchers, including BBE assistant professor Ce Yang, have been able to detect the fungus disease of Fusarium head blight (FHB) with more rapid recognition and greater accuracy. This study shows that rapid detection of FHB in wheat spikes could lead to breeding resistant cultivars.