Dr. Claudia Gunsch Awarded Huber Prize by ASCE

Gunsch-WEB-headshotDr. Claudia Gunsch, a principal investigator on Project 4 at the Duke Superfund Research Center, was recently awarded the prestigious Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize by the American Society of Civil Engineers. The prize honors, among other achievements, her trailblazing work on bioremediation of organic contaminants using gene silencing water disinfection technology, which has helped scientists to better understand how emerging contaminants—those not commonly monitored in the environment but that may cause potential harm—affect the treatment of wastewater.

 

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