WBE crew wins 2022 ALVSCE Outstanding Team Award April 28, 2022 WEST Center faculty, staff and students recognized as winners of the 2022 Agriculture, Life and Veterinary Sciences, and Cooperative Extension (ALVSCE) Team Award for extraordinary efforts in monitoring pandemic conditions on campus via wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE). Read more Image
WEST graduate student selected as Fulbright U.S. Postdoctoral Scholar April 25, 2022 University of Arizona PhD candidate, Sarah Abney, was selected to receive a prestigious Fulbright- Garcia Robles Postdoctoral Scholar Award. Ms. Abney will graduate in May 2022 and spend 2022-2023 in Mexico with El Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán, A.C. (CICY). Read more Image
Here & Now: Arizona weighs desalination April 13, 2022 In an episode of NPR's Here & Now, University of Arizona's Sharon Megdal explains Gov. Doug Ducey's idea for a desalination project and notes additional strategies to bolster water supply, including greater use of treated wastewater. WEST Center is a hub for research on these efforts, including technologies for brine management, energy reduction, and water reuse. Read more Image
AZ Water Research Symposium highlights discoveries benefiting Arizona utilities March 29, 2022 At the 2022 AZ Water Research Symposium, researchers and utility representatives shared information and discoveries aimed at advancing the long term health, safety, and reliability of Arizona water supplies. Read more Image
COVID-19 Cases Rise in the U.K., U.S. Watches for New Wave March 22, 2022 In an NPR podcast in March 2022, correspondents and scientists discussed what the rise in cases elsewhere means for the U.S., how the U.S. is looking to sewage to detect any rise in infections here, and the status of COVID relief funding. WEST Center has been at the forefront of monitoring the pandemic via wastewater. Read more Image
EPA Science Advisory Board looks to WEST for biosolids expertise Feb. 15, 2022 WEST director, Dr. Ian Pepper, will serve on the Environmental Protection Agency’s newly-formed Science Advisory Board Biosolids Panel. The panel will provide independent advice regarding the Agency’s draft Biosolids Chemical Risk Assessment and Biosolids Screening Tool. Read more Image
Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic Feb. 11, 2022 In an NPR radio segment of The Buzz, researchers - including those at WEST Center - share what they've learned during two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more Image
WEST Director officially inducted as UArizona Regents Professor Feb. 1, 2022 At the University of Arizona Outstanding Faculty Awards ceremony in mid-January, 2022, Dr. Ian Pepper was officially inducted as a University Regents Professor. The WEST Center Director was one of six professors to receive this high distinction in 2021. Read more Image
Research findings shared at WET semi-annual meeting Jan. 4, 2022 Representatives from University of Arizona and Arizona State University discussed research related to water contamination and purification technologies at the WET Center semi-annual meeting in December 2021. Read more Image
UArizona researchers still testing wastewater from student dorms for COVID-19 Dec. 20, 2021 In a news piece by KVOA Tucson, reporter Angelique Lizarde speaks with Dr. Ian Pepper of WEST Center about ongoing testing of wastewater to detect COVID-19 on campus. Read more Image