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From the U of M Department of Chemistry
to the Grainger Prize
We are pleased to announce that Prof.
Abul Hussam, a former postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Prof. Peter Carr, has
been awarded the National Academy of Engineering Grainger
Challenge Prize Gold Award. The Grainger Foundation awards a first,
second, and third place prize for “the design
and creation of a workable, sustainable, economical, point-of-use water
treatment system for arsenic-contaminated groundwater in Bangladesh,
India, Nepal, and other developing countries.”
Prof. Hussam, currently an associate professor
of chemistry at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA, received the first
place Gold Award for his development of the SONO
filter, which is a household water filtration system to remove arsenic
and organic pollutants from drinking water. Prof. Hussam worked as a postdoctoral
research associate in the laboratory of Prof. Peter Carr in the Chemistry
Department at the University of Minnesota from 1983 to 1985, and we are
incredibly proud of this enormous accomplishment!
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