News
May 2024
Graduation 2024! Two of our PhD students walked this May! Congratulations Jack and Chris!
April 2024
Congratulations to Dr. Jack Welchert for successfully defending his PhD dissertation titled “Development of a novel, cellulose sponge based sorbent for pfas adsorption”. First PhD defense from the KORES Lab.
Congratulations to Lynn Carroll for receiving an NSF-GRFP! Lynn has been doing research in the KORES lab since her freshman year and she is a first year PhD student in our group!
It is conference season: Jack Welchert and McKenna Dunmyer presented their research on PFAS at the National Ground Water Association Conference on Groundwater in the PFAS Era: Stressors, Protection, and Compliance.
Congratulations to Jack Welchert for receiving the 2024 outstanding graduate student for the Biosystems Engineering department and Chris Yazzie for receiving the 2024 outstanding graduate student for the Environmental Engineering department.
March 2024
First in person meeting/workshop for our Arizona Board of Regents Project! Our group collaborates with the Savagatrup, the Ingram (NAU) and the Brusseau laboratories and the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality to provide solutions to the forever contaminant challenges that Arizona faces.
February 2024
Field trip in the Monument Valley Park community in the Navajo Nation as part of our NSF funded project the Transformation Network. During this trip we troubleshooted a Solar UV system installed in the area and had a meeting with the community. We are grateful for the community, their time and sharing their knowledge and experiences.
December 2023
Winter Break Party in style! We brought our A-game to pickle ball.
July 2023
Dine College visits UArizona for a week of workshops on water reuse. Love it when we meet to work with our project partners.
May 2023
Field trip with our collaborators from Dine College to the Navajo Nation to install our first Solar-UV system at Juanita’s house.
March 2023
Spring break field work and team meeting with Dine College
Congratulations to our PhD student Arianna Tariqi for being selected as a ARCS scholar for 2023
January 2023
KORES lab PhD student Chris Yazzie presenting his research work on water reuse in the Navajo Nation at the Sky Bar. Good Job Chris!
November 2022
Extremely honored to receive this award. I am so appreciative of all the KORES students current and past ones. You keep me going and remind me why I love my job!
July 2022
Dine college visits the UArizona for a week long workshops on water reuse
June 2022
Congratulations to Ailyn Brizo (MS) and Mackenzie Bonny (BS) on their graduation. Ailyn has already lined up a job with Indian Health Services and Mackenzie will be going to Rice University to start her PhD. We wish them good luck and we will miss them
May 2022
We did a thing! Organizing a conference is a lot but very rewarding! Thankful for amazing colleagues (Dr. Kerri Hickenbottom, Dr Manish Kumar and Dr. Mary Laura Lind) and the membrane community!
Congratulations to Arianna Tariqi on wining 2nd place on the NAMS 2022 student poster presentation
April 2022
Congratulations to our PhD student Arianna Tariqi for receiving an NSF-GRFP!!
March 2022
Congratulations to our PhD student Jack Welchert for winning the first place on AZ water symposium that took place in Phoenix
December 2021
Its been a while but we are still here going strong
November 2021
Visiting PhD student Arianna Tariqi the Yuma desalting plant to inaugurate our new USBOR funded pitch-to-pilot project.
August 2021
Award
Truly honored for this recognition....Our work is highly collaborative so this award goes to our community partners, colleagues and lab members
October 2020
Inaugurating publication from the KORES laboratory
We are excited to share our first publication from our group in collaboration with the Zucker lab on platform selection of engineered nanomaterials for water decontamination applications.
September 2020
Fall is here!
Hua Jiang, (2nd year PhD student) gave an excellent presentation ammonia recovery from wastewater at our ChEE Friday Seminar. The Friday seminars are geared towards our graduate students to work on their communication skills and introduce their research amongst their peers.
August 2020
Welcome Kara Walton and Ailyn Brizo to the KORES lab
Kara Walton is an accelerated MS student and she will be working on optimization of solar membrane processes and Ailyn Brizo is an Indige-FEWS fellow and she will be working on nanofiltration for off-grid water purification in the Navajo Nation.
Excellent virtual presentation series for the College of Engineering with Dr. Kim Ogden on our work we do in collaboration with Tribal communities in Arizona.
June 2020
Partially Resuming Laboratory Operations
May 2020
Award
Extremely honored to receive an early career award by the UA provost Office!!
April 2020
MS Defense
Congratulations to Cora LeMar on her successful MS thesis defense!! Cora joined the KORES lab as a visiting student for more than three months from Delft University in the Netherlands.
March 2020
Remote Lab
Our laboratory will be operating remotely and working from home until further notice
February 2020
Energy Talks
Great opportunity to connect with the community and present our work at the Energy Talks sponsored by University of Arizona
Sky Bar-- February 2020
December 2019
Congratulations to Master student Catalina Fernandez-Moores
Congratulations to Master student Catalina Fernandez-Moores for successfully defending her Ms report on December 2nd. Her report titled "Uranium Removal from Navajo Nation Groundwater through Nanofiltration"
Holiday Gathering
Get together of the KORES, ART and Hickenbottom lab before the holiday break
Gentle Bens -- December 2019
September 2019
Welcome
The Kores lab would like to welcome in the group two new PhD students Hua Jiang and Chris Yazzie and a Master student Catalina Fernandez-Moores