Healthy Urban Waters - Wayne State University

09/19/2022

We were so grateful to work with Friends of the Rouge this past year on PFAS sampling in the Rouge River and we're looking forward to our future work with them!

09/15/2022

Wayne State’s collaborative Compost Program is 2 years old 🎉

Celebrate with us on Friday, September 30th from 3pm-4:30pm at Georgia Street Community Collective.

Tour the small but might compost site, learn about our collective accomplishments, and be a part of our ‘Paper Plate’ award ceremony 🏆

Please RSVP through the link in our bio.

Special thanks to our program partners, we can’t wait to celebrate with you! .

09/12/2022

Congratulations to Dr. Carol Miller and Dr. Melissa Runge-Morris for leading the CLEAR project on their recent award!

DETROIT – Wayne State University has received a five-year, approximately $11.3 million award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) of the National Institutes of Health to create a new Superfund Research Program, the “Center for Leadership in Environmental Awareness...

08/04/2022

https://wdet.org/2022/07/06/project-aims-to-find-new-ways-to-convert-river-water-into-drinking-water-as-pollutants-evolve/

The Great Lakes Water Authority is contracting with Wayne State University to do research at its Waterworks Park treatment plant in Detroit. Inside the facility there’s a 12,000-to-1 scale model of the water treatment system.

07/26/2022

Congratulations to Adrian Vasquez on the Fulbright Scholar Award! The award will allow Dr. Vasquez to teach and conduct the first national survey of freshwater habitats in Belize.
https://today.wayne.edu/medicine/news/2022/06/30/dr-vasquez-will-conduct-first-national-survey-of-belizes-freshwater-habitats-as-fulbright-scholar-48573?utm_source=link&utm_medium=email-62d5bc21d3a5a&utm_campaign=Monday%2C%20July%2018%2C%202022%20-%20Today%40Wayne%20-%20Wayne%20State%20University&utm_content=Dr.%20Vasquez%20will%20conduct%20first%20national%20survey%20of%20Belize%E2%80%99s%20fr&fbclid=IwAR3YJdtGfy5QenulooWIdb6p9I99mv-DCGj9YLLoGZGpqqBGl-x-PHlEJ4o #.YuAbQLe3Icg.facebook

Adrian Vasquez, Ph.D., collects freshwater invertebrates to study biodiversity and disease carrying organisms. Wayne State University School of Medicine doctoral alumnus and Assistant Profe...

06/06/2022

Great day working with Friends of the Rouge collecting bugs, fish, water, and sediment samples at several sites along the Rouge! We’ll be testing these samples for PFAS.

04/15/2022

04/12/2022

Congratulations to HUW Researcher Adrian Vasquez who was recently selected for the U.S. Fulbright Scholar program to Belize for academic year 2022-23!

03/08/2022

The compounds are found in very small amounts, detectable only by sensitive equipment. And for many, not much is known about whether they are harmful.