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Lewis School of Health & Life Sciences Newsletter: February 2024

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Lewis School of Health & Life Sciences Newsletter: February 2024

Message From the Founding Dean

Welcome to the February edition of our Earl R. and Barbara D. Lewis School of Health & Life Sciences Newsletter. As the Lewis School continues to lead in preparing highly trained professionals to meet rural and distance-challenged healthcare environments, we have news about our new EMS Education Department in this issue. We also feature the announcement of our two Feitelberg Fellows, as well as some interesting information about Clarkson research on a potential treatment for Alzheimer's disease. I hope you enjoy reading about our students and faculty as much as I enjoy working with them each day.

— Lennart Johns, Founding Dean of Health & Life Sciences

EMT/Paramedic Training Grant

An EMT prepares a medical gurney at the back of an open ambulance.

The Northern Border Regional Commission and the U.S. Department of Agriculture have awarded Clarkson $412,500 to address the EMS healthcare crisis in the North Country. The funding will be used to develop a high-fidelity training center for EMT and paramedic education, allowing the Lewis School to train 300 EMTs and 60 paramedics over the next three years.
Read More About This Grant
 

First Paramedic Class (Video)

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The first cohort of future paramedic professionals has started the new nine-month EMS education program. This paramedic training program for the North Country community addresses a critical EMS staffing shortage in the region.
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DPT Students Awarded Fellowship

Waist up portrait of Ariana Kelly and Xuan Li, wearing white lab coats.

DPT students Ariana Kelly ‘24 and Xuan Li  ‘24 have been awarded the Samuel B. Feitelberg Physical Therapy Endowed Fellowship for 2023-24. The fellowship assists students in developing cultural proficiency through a variety of activities – particularly clinical internships.
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Testing Alzheimer’s Treatment

chest-up portrait of Ka Ho Leung in a blue suit jacket and open-collared light blue shirt

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Ka Ho Leung was awarded a nearly $300,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to test a new treatment that targets specific channels in cells to see if it can help reduce the harmful sustained immune response in Alzheimer's disease.
Read More About This Grant
 

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Honors Program Newsletter: February 2024

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Honors Program Newsletter: February 2024

Message From the Director

Welcome to the February edition of the Clarkson University Honors Program Newsletter!

In this edition, you'll find out more about our Honors students' high-impact projects and their achievements in receiving external grants and scholarships, as well as recognition for one of our alumni. Our students are engineering bridges, working on sustainability projects and gaining support for their excellence in research and service.

These outstanding Honors students embody the breadth of talent we have at Clarkson; they are majoring in data science, chemistry, environmental engineering, chemical engineering, civil engineering and biochemistry. No matter what they study, we've designed our Honors Program for students fueled by intellectual curiosity and new, perspective-transforming experiences.

Our program encourages academic drive and personal growth through research, hands-on learning and a unique curriculum. I hope that you enjoy reading about our students as much as I enjoy working with them every day.

— Kate Krueger, Director, University Honors Program / Professor of Literature

Service Scholarship

Waist-up portrait of Shreejit Poudyal with warms folded, wearing a tee-shirt

Honors student Shreejit Poudyal ‘25, a data science major, received the New York State Organization of Bursars and Business Administrators John G. Karrer Scholarship. The award recognizes students who embody the ideals of the organization through meritorious service in an on-campus business-related activity.
Read More About This Scholarship
 

NIH Support for Biomedical Research

Matthias Schmidt wearing a white lab coat, safety goggles and a blue glove, holding a beaker with a red liquid

The National Institute of General Medical Sciences awarded a $10,000 grant to Honors student Matthias Schmidt '25, a chemistry major. The funding supports Schmidt's undergraduate research in Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Ka Ho Leung’s laboratory.
Read More About This Grant
 

World’s Smallest Engineered International Bridge

Group of seven students standing on a timber bridge deck constructed of pressure-treated lumber

Honors Student Abby Jeffers ‘27 is a member of the Timber Bridge SPEED Team, which recently completed construction of the world’s smallest engineered international bridge at the site of a border marker between the United States and Canada. 
Read More About This Project
 

Going for Gold

Group of 14 people posing with a mounted map of the Adirondack Park

Honors student Rochelle Daniels '26 is among eight students who have been deeply involved in the recertification of the New York State Olympic Region as a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) community. The students are helping four organizations go for sustainability gold as they look to recertify, using the latest LEED rating system.
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Institute for a Sustainable Environment Newsletter: January 2024

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Institute for a Sustainable Environment Newsletter: January 2024

Message From the Director

At the top of this month's Institute for a Sustainable Environment Newsletter is news of our new undergraduate degree program in environmental science and sustainability. It's a revision of our environmental science & policy degree, with concentrations to allow students to focus within the broad field of environmental science and sustainability. We also have lots of news about research by our ISE faculty and affiliated faculty, as well as students. I hope that you enjoy reading about their accomplishments below.

— Susan Powers, Director of the Institute for a Sustainable Environment / Associate Director of Sustainability / Jean ’79 and Robert ’79 Spence Professorship in Sustainable Environmental Systems
 

New Degree

A female student in green pants partially kneels down and reaches her hand into a river and a second student in a blue shirt bends over and uses a tube to look beneath the surface of the river.

The most pressing environmental issues -- such as greenhouse gas emissions and the overuse of disposable plastics -- can be traced back to human decisions. In addressing these issues it is vital to understand both the scientific and policy aspects that impact the planet. A new Bachelor of Science degree program in Environmental Science and Sustainability will prepare students to tackle both of these challenges.
Read About This New Degree
 

Going for Gold

Group of 14 people posing with a mounted map of the Adirondack Park

Eight students have been deeply involved in the recertification of New York State’s Olympic Region as a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) community. The students are helping the Olympic Regional Development Authority, the Village of Lake Placid, the Town of North Elba and the Lake Placid Central School District go for sustainability gold as they look to recertify using the latest LEED rating system.
Read About This Project
 

DoD Supports PFAS Treatment

A Clarkson team has been awarded a $1.2 million Department of Defense grant to scale up an integrated treatment system to destroy PFAS in sediments. The system includes mechanochemical ball milling, which destroys PFAS in soils and sediments, followed by soil washing and plasma treatment.
Read More About This Grant
 

Phosphate Removal Tech

side-by-side portraits of Silvana Andreescu and Stefan Grimberg

Two Clarkson professors have been awarded $749,000 by the Department of Agriculture to develop a filtration system to capture and recover phosphate from tile drainage and reduce the phosphate burden on watersheds. This sorbent and field-ready system will decrease environmental impact and provide a renewable phosphate supply, improving the sustainability of agricultural practices.
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Coulter School of Engineering Newsletter: January 2024

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Coulter School of Engineering Newsletter: January 2024

Message From the Dean

Major government support for our research on cleansing the environment of contaminants –  like PFAS in soil, phosphate in our watersheds and organohalogens in our waste streams – tops our Coulter School of Engineering Newsletter this month. You'll also find an interesting article on respiratory emissions by children, as well as accomplishments by our students and our celebration of 50 years of the Society of Women Engineers here at Clarkson. Please enjoy reading about the achievements of our students and faculty.

— Bill Jemison, Dean of the Wallace H. Coulter School of Engineering / Tony Collins Professor of Innovative Engineering Culture

DoD Supports PFAS Treatment

A Clarkson team has been awarded a $1.2 million Department of Defense grant to scale up an integrated treatment system to destroy PFAS in sediments. The system includes mechanochemical ball milling, which destroys PFAS in soils and sediments, followed by soil washing and plasma treatment.
Read More About This Grant
 

Phosphate Removal Tech

side-by-side portraits of Silvana Andreescu and Stefan Grimberg

Two Clarkson professors have been awarded $749,000 by the Department of Agriculture to develop a filtration system to capture and recover phosphate from tile drainage and reduce the phosphate burden on watersheds. This sorbent and field-ready system will decrease environmental impact and provide a renewable phosphate supply, improving the sustainability of agricultural practices.
Read More About This Award
 

Dehalogenating Waste Streams

Prof. Prof. Selma Mededovic standing with her arms folded, in front of laboratory equipment.

Prof. Selma Mededovic Thagard has been awarded a $422,000 National Science Foundation grant for her research on the dehalogenation of waste streams using electrical discharge plasma. Dehalogenation of waste streams is at the forefront of the major engineering challenges facing society, with more than 10,000 organohalogens impacting the environment.
Read More About This NSF Grant
 

Children's Respiratory Particle Emissions

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An article by a Clarkson research team, recently published in the journal Aerosol Science and Technology, explains their findings that age influences the size and quantity of respiratory particle emissions in humans during activities, with children releasing fewer and smaller particles than adults. Thus, incorporating age demographics into disease transmission models may improve their accuracy.
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