Shanika Musser has been working on an honors thesis focused on the utility of biochar for the removal of microbial contaminants from water. Shanika had previously worked in Dr. Misna’s lab (Chemistry) on the removal of certain soluble contaminants from water using biochar. Her work has been supported by an ORED undergraduate research grant and…
For the past five years, Dennis Truax has been taking students to a small province in the southern African county of Zambia each summer to drill and assemble water wells. The project was adopted by the Mississippi State University chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB). Truax, who is the head of the MSU Bagley College…