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April 21, 2009

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University of Pittsburgh Team Wins National Environmental Protection Agency Award

The team, led by Department of Chemical and Petroleum engineering professor Di Gao, competed with 43 teams, including teams from MIT and Berkeley.

The University of Pittsburgh team earned the Design Award in the People, Prosperity, and the Planet (P3) competition, sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency. The team, led by engineering professor Di Gao, consisted mostly of Swanson School of Engineering students.
 
The P3 award competition encourages college students to apply technology in innovative ways to tackle global environmental challenges. The University of Pittsburgh team won for the project that best exemplifies:
 
1. Research involving interdisciplinary collaboration, using innovative technologies to facilitate distance communication during research and employs sustainable practices;

 
2. Deployment to regions with limited resources such that Youth or people without significant financial ability or property rights can obtain and use the device/invention;

 
3. Use of sustainable materials that are locally produced and available to the general population and enable the device/invention to be maintained locally.
 
The project title is: “Removal of Arsenic from Groundwater Using Naturally Occurring Iron Oxides in Rural Regions of Mongolia”.
 
Team members are:  Brian Novicki, Liangliang Cao, Bradley Harden, Allison Hahn, Jason Monnell, Edward Mccord, and Di Gao.

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