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EPA Awards Nearly $500,000 to Student Teams for Environmental Technologies
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $500,000 in research funding to five student teams to further develop their innovative ideas to solve environmental challenges. These awards are part of EPA¡¯s People, Prosperity, and the Planet (P3) Program.
¡°Congratulations to our winning teams on their creative and innovative solutions to address some of our most urgent environmental problems,¡± said Chris Frey, Assistant Administrator for EPA¡¯s Office of Research and Development. ¡°Their work is inspiring, and I look forward to seeing the final results of these projects.¡±
EPA's P3 program is a unique competition that offers teams of college and university students hands-on experience that brings their classroom learning to life, while also encouraging them to create tangible changes in their communities. Today¡¯s awardees have already been awarded a one-year grant of up to $25,000 for Phase I, which served as a ¡°proof of concept,¡± to develop their idea. These teams then successfully competed for a Phase II grant of up to $100,000 to implement their design in a real-world setting.
Today¡¯s award-winning teams include:
- New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J., to reduce contaminants and provide safe drinking water by developing an innovative microwave-assisted membrane filtration system to enhance the removal of per- and poly fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from water.
- Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Fla., to reduce air pollution and increase fuel resources by developing adsorbent materials that can remove impurities from biogas and landfill gas to produce biomethane, a carbon-neutral fuel.
- Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Ill., to provide clean water and improved water treatment technologies by producing a sorbent-enhanced sand capping technology for PFAS-contaminated sediments to reduce mobilization and bioaccumulation of PFAS in sediments.
- Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Ill., to create a floating treatment system that can be deployed to control harmful algal bloom outbreaks.
- Stanford University, Stanford, Calif., to design and test a self-sustaining device for nutrient capture and recovery for water treatment to prevent harmful algal blooms.
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