2023
Aron Griffin is awarded a Sussman Fellowship that will support a summer internship at Aquagga, our commercialization partner for the HALT technology.
Congrats to Ori Soker on successfully passing his PhD qualifying exam.
Camille Amador, PhD 2023 in Material Science, gives the invocation at Spring Graduation.
Strathmann group’s research on PFAS destruction was featured on CBS News: https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/colorado-school-mines-researchers-new-process-destroy-harmful-pfas-forever-chemicals/
Congratulations for Camille “Chiqui” Amador, the group’s newest PhD graduate. Camille successfully defended her thesis, entitled “KINETICS AND MECHANISMS OF HYDRATED ELECTRON REACTIONS DURING ADVANCED REDUCTION PROCESSES” on April 12!
Aron Griffin, PhD student, Awarded 2nd Place in the Energy and Environmental Category for Mines Graduate Research Symposium presentation competition.
Aron Griffin, PhD student, was awarded a Sussman Fellowship to support a planned internship in Summer 2023 at Aquagga.
2022
Seth Donaldson joins the group as a MS thesis student. Seth earned his BS in nanoengineering from the University of California, San Diego. He will be conducting research focusing on application of HALT to PFAS-contaminated biosolids.
Caila Cassuto joins the group as a Mines Undergraduate Research Fellow (MURF). She will be working with Dr. Shilai Hao to develop a low-cost method for organic fluorine analysis.
Shilai Hao successfully defended his PhD thesis! Shilai will be staying with the group as a postdoctoral research associate.
2021
Aron Griffin is included in an AWWA story on piloting technologies during the pandemic while working at Hazen and Sawyer. You can read the full story at https://awwa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/awwa.1724
Ori Soker joins the group after completing his undergraduate studies in chemical engineering at NC State. Ori will be conducting research on development of novel technologies for PFAS treatment and destruction.
2020
Congrats to Estelle Cronmiller, Andrew Koehler, and Anderson Ellis on successfully passing their PhD qualifying examinations!
Aron Griffin had elected to join the group in August to pursue his PhD in environmental engineering. He is currently a Principal Engineer at Hazen and Sawyer, and previously completed his BS at Penn State and his MS at UC Berkeley.
Charlie Liu wins a presentation award at the 2020 Emerging Contaminants Summit.
Yida Fang wins an ACS Graduate Student Award.
Camille (Chiqui) Amador receives and Honorable Mention for her application to the NSF Graduate Fellowship Program.
Strathmann Research Group 