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2025 – Dr. Wei gave an invited seminar in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northwestern University.

2024 – Congratulations to Shengdong on passing his prelim! He is officially a Ph.D. candidate now!

2024 – Dr. Wei gave an invited seminar in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at George Washington University.

2024 – Dr. Wei gave a poster presentation at the annual SERDP/ESTCP Symposium in Washington DC.

2024 – Congratulations to Seowon on the acceptance of her first-author paper by ACS ES&T Water!

2024 – Dr. Wei gave an oral presentation at the NOAA Sea Grant Marine Debris Symposium in Washington DC.

2024 – John and Ziyan gave two poster presentations at the Water@UW Annual Fall Art & Science Poster Session.

2024 – Congratulations to Ziyan on the acceptance of her first-author paper by Environmental Science & Technology!

2024 – Ziyan, in partnership with Ginny Carlton from WI Sea Grant, organized an outreach activity on microplastics at the WI Science Festival.

2024 – Jack Conto joined our group as a new Ph.D. student. Jack will be co-advised by Gavin Dehnert from WI Sea Grant. Welcome, Jack!

2024 – Dr. Wei gave an invited seminar at the Monthly Learning Series of Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.

2024 – Dr. Wei was featured in an interview on The Larry Meiller Show at Wisconsin Public Radio.

2024 – Hanwei successfully completed her defense for the Delta Teaching Certificate.

2024 – Dr. Wei gave an invited oral presentation at the ACS Fall 2024 National Meeting in Denver, CO.

2024 – Ziyan gave an oral presentation at the ACS Fall 2024 National Meeting in Denver, CO.

2024 – Congratulations to Hanwei for winning the 2024 CAPEES Student Poster Competition Award.

2024 – Dr. Wei gave a poster presentation at the Gordon Research Conference: Nanoscale Science and Engineering for Agriculture and Food Systems in Manchester, New Hampshire.

2024 – Hanwei gave a poster presentation at the Gordon Research Conference: Environmental Science: Water in Holderness, New Hampshire.

2024 – Congratulations to Shengdong on the acceptance of his first-author paper by Environmental Science: Nano!

2024 – Dr. Wei gave an oral presentation at the Water@UW Think Tank Workshop.

2024 – Ping and Shiqing passed the Ph.D. qualifying exam! Congratulations!

2024 – Dr. Wei gave an oral presentation at the Water@UW Spring Symposium.

2024 – Dr. Wei gave an invited oral presentation at the U.S. EPA Innovations in Environmental Science Seminar Series.

2024 – The Environmental Analytical Technology Laboratory hosted a booth demonstration at the Engineering Expo.

2024 – Dr. Wei gave a guest lecture at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

2024 – Seo Won, Shengdong, and Dr. Wei gave three oral presentations at the ACS Spring 2024 National Meeting in New Orleans, LA.

2024 – Andrew gave a poster presentation at the Research in the Rotunda in Madison, WI.

2024 – Ziyan was a finalist in the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition at UW-Madison.

2024 – Dr. Wei gave an invited talk at the 2024 WPVGA Grower Education Conference in Stevens Point, WI.

2024 – Our collaborative work with Dr. Mohamed Ateia Ibrahim from the US EPA and Dr. Silvana Andreescu from Clarkson University has been accepted for publication in Environmental Science & Technology.

2024 – Ping Li joined our group as a new Ph.D. student. Welcome, Ping!

2023 – Congratulations to Hanwei on the acceptance of her first-author paper by Analytical Chemistry!

2023 – Dr. Wei gave an invited seminar at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine.

2023 – Dr. Wei gave a poster presentation at the annual SERDP Symposium in Arlington, VA.

2023 – Shiqing and Shengdong gave two poster presentations at the Water@UW Fall Art & Science Poster Symposium at UW-Madison.

2023 – Hanwei and Seo Won gave two oral presentations at SciX 2023 in Sparks, NV.

2023 – Congratulations to Shiqing and Seo Won on the acceptance of their first-author paper by ACS ES&T Engineering!

2023 – Congratulations to Seo Won and Ziyan on passing their preliminary exams! They are officially Ph.D. candidates now!

2023 – John Gorman joined our group as a new Ph.D. student. Welcome, John!

2023 – Dr. Wei and Hanwei gave two oral presentations at the ACS Fall 2023 National Meeting in San Francisco, CA.

2023 – Andrew gave a flash talk and a poster presentation at the Freshwater@UW-Madison Summer Research Rendezvous.

2023 – Dr. Wei gave a talk at the UW Summer Research Opportunities Program – Freshwater@UW Professional Development Seminars.

2023 – Dr. Wei, Seo Won, Ziyan, and Hanwei gave three oral presentations and one poster presentation at the 2023 AEESP Conference at Northeastern University in Boston, MA.

2023 – Our student team – Hanwei Wang, Seo Won Cho, and Craig Butler attended the EPA P3’s National Student Design Expo at the National Harbor, MD.

2023 – Hanwei and Shiqing gave two poster presentations at the Gordon Research Conference: Environmental Nanotechnology in Newry, Maine.

2023 – Congratulations to Ziyan on the acceptance of her first-author paper by ACS ES&T Water!

2023 – Shiqing successfully defended her Master’s thesis and will continue her academic journey as a Ph.D. student in our lab.

2023 – Seo Won and Shiqing gave two oral presentations at the 2023 Emerging Contaminants in the Environment Conference in Champaign, IL.

2023 – Dr. Wei gave an invited talk at the Sensing and Analytical Technologies for Emerging Environmental Contaminants Symposium at Pittcon 2023 in Philadelphia, PA.

2022 – Seo Won and Shiqing gave poster presentations on emerging contaminant analysis at the AIPG MN/WI Geology and Remediation Weekend in La Crescent, MN.

2022 – Dr. Wei gave an oral presentation on plasmonic nanoparticle surface chemistry at SciX 2022 in Cincinnati, OH.

2022 – Dr. Wei gave a seminar on the standard and emerging technologies for PFAS analysis in the Department of Geoscience at UW-Madison.

2022 – Congratulations to Seo Won on the acceptance of her first-author paper by Frontiers of Environmental Science and Engineering.

2022 – Congratulations to Ziyan on the acceptance of her first-author paper by ACS ES&T Engineering.

2022 – Ziyan received the best student speaker award for her presentation at the Environmental Chemistry & Polymer Science symposium at the Fall ACS Meeting in Chicago. Congratulations, Ziyan!

2022 – Ziyan passed the Ph.D. qualifying exam! Congratulations!

2022 – Shengdong Liu joined our group as a new Ph.D. student. Welcome, Shengdong!

2022 – Samantha Forbes concluded her summer research in our lab by giving a well-received flash talk and poster presentation at the Water@UW-Madison Summer Research Rendezvous.

2022 – Dr. Wei gave an oral presentation at the AEESP Research and Education Conference at Washington University in St. Louis.

2022 – Congratulations to Hanwei on passing her prelim! She is officially a Ph.D. candidate now!

2022 – Congratulations to Hanwei on her first-author publication in Langmuir!

2022 – Seo Won and Hanwei gave oral presentations at the ACS Spring 2022 National Meeting in San Diego, CA. Great job on their first in-person conference presentations!

2022 – Dr. Wei received the 2021 Excellence in Review Award from the Frontiers of Environmental Science and Engineering,  a peer-reviewed journal published by Springer.

2021 – Dr. Wei gave an invited talk at the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Fudan University.

2021 – Ziyan Wu (a Ph.D. student) and Shiqing Cai (a M.S. student) joined the Environmental Analytical Technology Laboratory. Welcome, Ziyan and Shiqing!

2021 – Seo Won passed the Ph.D. qualifying exam! Congratulations!

2021 – Dr. Wei gave an invited talk at the seminar hosted by the School of Health and Environmental Science, Korea University.

2021 – Dr. Wei gave an invited talk at the seminar hosted by the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University.

2021 – Dr. Wei gave an invited talk on “surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy-based sensors for water pollutant analysis” at the  US Army DEVCOM Soldier Center Water Sensors Symposium.

2020 – Our technology for real-time detection of emerging contaminants in drinking water was recognized as a Finalist in the Water Council’s Fall 2020 Tech Challenge.

2020 – Dr. Wei gave an oral presentation on plasmon-enabled degradation of organic micropollutants at the 9th Nano Conference (previously known as SNO conference).

2020 – Seo Won has received the Fall CEE Opportunity Award. Congrats!

2020 – The Special Issue – Accounts of Aquatic Chemistry and Technology Research in FESE edited by Haoran Wei, Jinyong Liu (UC-Riverside), and Yin Wang (UWM) is now online.

2020 –  A new Ph.D. student – Seo Won Cho, joined the Environmental Analytical Technology Laboratory. Welcome, Seo Won!

2020 – Another piece of Dr. Wei’s postdoc work has been accepted for publication by Small. 

2020 – Dr. Wei’s postdoc work has been accepted for publication by PNAS.

2020 – A new Ph.D. student – Hanwei Wang, joined the Environmental Analytical Technology Laboratory. Welcome, Hanwei!