Avner Vengosh Named Nicholas Chair of Environmental Quality

Vengosh Named Nicholas Chair of Environmental Quality

Project 1 investigator Avner Vengosh has been named Nicholas Chair of Environmental Quality, effective July 1.

Vengosh, a faculty member at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment since 2005, is internationally recognized for his research on water and soil contamination linked to coal ash, fracking wastewater, hexavalent chromium, uranium, lithium and other harmful anthropogenic or naturally occurring pollutants.