Super excited and a great honor to receive the 2025 Frederick George Pohland Medal from AEESP/AAEES!

Talking about an editor’s experience at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ. Glad to meet with Anett Georgi, one of JHM editors, Virender Sharma, and UFZ students and faculty.

Congratulations Zixuan(Zach) Wang 🎉

Don’t miss the manhole cover in Bergen, Norway.

Two surprises at the Bergen airport: 1, there is “eduroam” WiFi connection; 2, no one checks ID when entering the airport terminals (flight tickets are scanned to get in).

My closest moment to something containing “Nobel” in the name😁 Visit the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm and read the introduction of several WashU professors who won the Nobel, Arthur Compton (1927, Physics), the Cori couple (1947, Medicine), and Philip Dybvig (2022, Economics)

Lunch with Prof. Jon Benskin and Dr. Majid Mustafa at Stockholm University’s faculty club. Behind us…….a real Nobel Prize medal on the wall 🏅

Congratulations 🎊🍾 The newest PhD graduate from our lab!

🎶 It feels like Summer... ☀️

St. Louis is one of the best places to learn and play chess! My son Alvin (the boy on the right in the picture below) took a 3-year journey from receiving his first USCF rating (680) to becoming an expert-level player. Very grateful to St. Louis Chess Club 👏👏👏

The award ceremony for the 2025 Stockholm Junior Water Prize USA national competition is going to start….. We will find out soon who will represent the U.S. at the international competition.

Congratulations to the winner from New York and two runner up 🎉👍

Two JHM spin-off now open for submissions: Journal of Hazardous Materials: Plastics (sciencedirect.com/journal/journa…) Journal of Hazardous Materials: Organics (sciencedirect.com/journal/journa…)

Nature’s in session. ☀️

Spam 🔔 : someone is using my name and Journal of Hazardous Materials for frauds. Don’t trust a message from a non-institutional email address; and don’t trust a message about money 💰 even if it comes from an institutional email address……

Contaminated water doesn’t just affect ecosystems—it affects you. That’s why WashU grad students are studying 15+ ways water chemistry impacts selenium removal. Their findings are helping predict & improve how we treat water across industries. bit.ly/44HCtfq

#WashUEECE's Joshua Yuan and his team have engineered a stronger, room-temp biodegradable bioplastic inspired by the structure of a leaf. Yuan's version is stronger than typical bioplastics and can be composted at room temperature. Learn more. ow.ly/GOhi50WwpNt

The @ASEE_DChas awarded Janie Brennan of #WashUEECE the Ray W. Fahien Award for early career excellence in chemical engineering education. Read more. engineering.washu.edu/news/2025/Bren…

Young-Shin Jun of #WashUEECE found that discarded face masks transform into nanoplastics and can change the chemical nature of the mask materials just as those materials can change the surrounding environment. engineering.washu.edu/news/2025/Sun-…

#WashUEECE to host inaugural Duduković Symposium Aug. 14–15. The event honors the legacy of Milorad Duduković, and will feature the inaugural Duduković Lecture by alumnus Mark Barteau, faculty and alumni talks, a poster session and networking opportunities.engineering.washu.edu/news/2025/Ener…