July 2007: Shuyi presents her work at the AEESP conference at Virginia Tech.  Dr. Gunsch receives a fellowship to attend an NSF workshop at the AEESP conference.

July 2007: Sara Morey joins our lab as a PhD Student.  She graduated from Cornell in May.  Welcome Sara!

June 2007: Drs. Gunsch and Schaad receive funding from the Lord Foundation of North Carolina to support undergraduate research efforts associated with the WERC competition.

May 2007: Ruoting and Shuyi present their lab work at the ASM General Conference in Toronto, Canada.   

May 2007: Annie Chen joins our lab as a Howard Hughes Summer Fellow.  She will be working on identifying bacterial conjugates capable of toluene degradation.

March, 2007: Aaron Lee receives an offer to intern in the Department of Isotope Biogeochemistry at the UFZ-Helmoltz Center of Environmental Research in Leipzig, Germany. Congratulations!!

January 24, 2007: Shuyi Wang passes her qualifying exam. Congratulations!!

January 10, 2007: Lee Pearson joins our lab as a Pratt Undergraduate Fellow.

November 22, 2006: Savannah Jeanne Gunsch is born. This is Dr. Gunsch's first child.

September 1, 2006: Ruoting Pei joins our research group as a Research Associate from Colorado State University.

June 1, 2006: Ryan Holzem joins our group as an REU student for the summer from the University of Wisconsin.

May 23, 2006: Shuyi presents her work at the ASM 106th General Meeting in Orlando, Florida.

April 3, 2006: Drs. Stapleton and Gunsch receive funding from the NIEHS Center for Comparative Biology of Vulnerable Populations. They will study the biotransformation of brominated flame retardants in fish and humans.

March 15, 2006: Drs. Gunsch and Khlystov receive funding from the Lord Foundation of North Carolina. They will develop lab modules for undergraduate environmental engineering students to study indoor air contaminants.

August 15, 2005: Shuyi Wang joins our research group as a PhD student from Tsinghua University.

July, 2005: Dr. Gunsch receives a fellowship to attend the CAREER Workshop at the AEESP conference.

June, 2005: Dr. Gunsch receives a fellowship to attend "Nanotechnology, Biotechnolgy and Green Manufacturing fo Creating Sustainable Technologies" Short Course at Northwestern University.

May, 2005: Dr. Gunsch joins the Center for Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering at Duke University.

March, 2005: Dr. Gunsch is selected as one of the Duke University Nominees for the Oak Ridge Associated Universities Faculty Enhancement Award.

August 1, 2004: Dr. Gunsch joins the Faculty in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Duke University. Click here for the news release.