2024
October 2024
Stanford Report features the group’s vision and most recent efforts in converting nitrogen-polluted wastewater to fertilizers
October 2024
William Tarpeh, Kindle Williams and Brandon Clark are selected as Stanford’s High Impact Technology (HIT) Fund Cohort 2024-25 Awardees
Recovered Potential – Electrochemical nitrogen recovery from wastewater
July 2024
Brandon Clark successfully defends her PhD in Chemical Engineering
Ligand Exchange Adsorbents and Membrane Channel Proteins for Selective Total Ammonia Nitrogen Recovery from Wastewaters
May 2024
Anna Kogler successfully defends her PhD in Civil & Environmental Engineering
Electrochemical nitrogen recovery from wastewater: long-term robustness within treatment trains, fate of organics, and product diversification
May 2024
Tarpeh Lab featured in the Chemistry Shorts™ film series by the Dreyfus Foundation
May 2024
Valerie Niemann successfully defends her PhD in Chemical Engineering
Understanding Interfaces in Electrochemical Ammonia Synthesis and Waste Valorization
April 2024
Matthew Liu successfully defends his PhD in Chemical Engineering
Electrifying Chemical Transformations and Separations to Valorize Wastewater Nitrogen
March 2024
Anna Kogler and William Tarpeh are highlighted as Rising Stars in Environmental Research by ACS Environmental Au!
February 2024
William Tarpeh receives the Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation! The proposal is titled “Molecular Electrocatalysts and Reactive Separations for Wastewater Nitrogen Refining”.
January 2024
Kristen Abels was elected the co-chair of the 2026 Gordon Research Seminar in Chemical Separations! She will co-chair with Eliza Dach, a PhD student at Columbia University.
January 2024
Xi Chen begins as an Assistant Professor in the School of Energy and Environment at the City University of Hong Kong!
January 2024
Electrochemical Regeneration of Polymeric Adsorbents for Selective Lithium Recovery
MatSci Qualifying Exam
Joyce An
January 2024
Elizabeth Corson begins as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering at the University of Kansas!
January 2024
Jinyu Guo was selected as a 2024 Graduate Student Awardee in Environmental Chemistry by the ACS Division of Environmental Chemistry
2023
December 2023
Dr. Anita Shao successfully defends her PhD and becomes the first PhD graduate of the Tarpeh Lab!
Electrochemical Sulfur Recovery From Sulfide-Containing Wastewaters
CEE PhD Dissertation Defense
November 2023
Anna Kogler’s research proposal for field testing in Kenya was awarded funded through the Stanford King Center on Global Development.
October 2023
Orisa Coombs was chosen to join the Stanford delegation attending COP28 in the United Arab Emirates through Stanford’s Doerr School of Sustainability and Woods Institute for the Environment
October 2023
Neha Sharma was highlighted in the NAWI NextGen Program, a program that supports the development of early-career NAWI researchers and members of the NAWI Alliance.
October 2023
Sam and Dean visited community partners in Diani, Kenya for preliminary assessment of local water, sanitation, and plastic waste infrastructure. Their work is funded by the RAISE fellowship and is in collaboration with local non-profit, HERI-Kenya.
October 2023
William Tarpeh receives the 35 under 35 Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers
September 2023
Edward Apraku was selected as the Student Speaker for Stanford Engineering’s Dean Welcome Event
August 2023
Edward Apraku receives the 2023-2024 Graduate Public Service Fellowship from the Stanford Haas Center for Public Service
July 2023
Neha Sharma was selected to participate in the Rising Stars Workshop hosted by MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
July 2023
Matthew Liu and William Tarpeh were spotlighted by The Electrochemical Society for their contribution to the ECS Interface summer issue: “Reports from the Frontier: Electrifying Chemical Transformations and Separations to Valorize Wastewater Nitrogen.”
June 2023
Matthew Liu was invited to the Thermo Fisher podcast Bringing Chemistry to Life and detailed his work using electrocatalysis to create a circular nitrogen economy.
May 2023
Electrochemical Separations for Nutrient Recovery from Wastewaters
CEE Qualifying Exam
Edward Apraku
May 2023
Orisa Coombs receives the RAISE: Research, Action, and Impact through Strategic Engagement Doctoral Fellowship from the Stanford Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education
May 2023
Anna Kogler receives the Gerald J. Lieberman Fellowship from the Stanford Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education
May 2023
Edward Apraku was selected as a Summer 2023 Partnership for Climate Justice in the Bay Area Fellow from the Stanford Haas Center for Public Service
May 2023
A Decentralized Photovoltaic/Thermal System for Wastewater Nitrogen Recovery
MechE Qualifying Exam
Orisa Coombs
April 2023
Will Tarpeh gives the 2023 Suzanne C. and Duncan A. Mellichamp Distinguished Lecture Series at Georgia Tech
April 2023
Edward Apraku, Sam Bunke, and Anna Kogler receive the 2023 Stanford Community Impact Award from the Stanford Alumni Association
April 2023
Elizabeth Corson will be starting as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Kansas in January 2024!
April 2023
Elizabeth Corson and Neha Sharma volunteer as judges for the Stanford Research Conference poster session hosted by the Stanford Undergraduate Research Association
March 2023
Orisa Coombs wins the Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation
March 2023
Edward Apraku presents his research to White House National Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi and his team during a visit to the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
March 2023
Anna Kolger wins the Eckenfelder Graduate Research Award from the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists
March 2023
Jinyu Guo wins a Kokes Travel award for the NAM catalysis Meeting
February 2023
(Photo)Electrochemical Conversion for Sustainable Fuels and Chemicals
Dr. Elizabeth Corson gives a webinar as part of the Thermo Fisher Young Chemists Webinar Series. In this talk she discusses both plasmon-enhanced electrochemical CO2 reduction and electrochemical nitrate reduction with an emphasis on in situ spectroscopic techniques that can be used to better understand the local reaction environment at the electrode–electrolyte interface.
February 2023
Sam Bunke becomes the inaugural Living Lab Fellow
February 2023
Advancing Sanitation Justice: Linking climate-exacerbated nitrogen, cyanotoxins, and parasites with reimagined sanitation infrastructure and services in African-American communities
EPA STAR Grant Award
Investigators: Tarpeh, William A , Osman, Khalid , Flowers, Catherine Coleman , Mejia, Rojelio
January 2023
Matthew Liu wins the 2023 Graduate Student Award for Environmental Chemistry from the Environmental Division of the American Chemical Society
2022
November 2022
Stanford StorageX funds proposal on lithium-selective membranes in collabortation with Prof. Yan Xia's group
November 2022
Will Tarpeh is awarded the 2022 Golden Funnel Award from the Rich Earth Institute
October 2023
Bill Gates visits the Tarpeh Lab
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September 2022
Co-creating sanitation justice: community-based monitoring and mitigation of climate-exacerbated pollution
Healthy People Healthy Planet Award
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September 2022
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant: Enzymatic Electrochemistry for Wastewater Nitrogen Refining
Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Award
Link
September 2022
Investigating structure-performance relationships in membranes for ion-selective separations
ChemE Qualifying Exam
Kristen Abels
July 2022
Lorelay Mendoza and Anna Kogler win PEER grant for work in collaboration with Delvic Sanitation in Senegal
July 2022
Scaling sanitation to safeguard human and planetary health: designing, evaluating, and deploying urine separation and treatment
2022 Global Health Seed Grant
Primary investigators: William Tarpeh, David Lobell
June 2022
AEESP Conference
Best Student Poster Award was granted to Sam for her poster titled "Life Cycle Comparison of Battery Recycling and Conventional Material Refining"
April 2022
Our Beautiful Planet - In Search of Nitrogen
Dr. Will Tarpeh tackles the issue of nitrogen pollution in collaboration with the Climate Initiative and the National Science Teaching Association
March 2022
Our Beautiful Planet - Liquid Gold
Dr. Will Tarpeh discusses a groundbreaking technology to tap into ammonia contained in human waste as a new source of nitrogen for fertilizer in collaboration with the Climate Initiative and the National Science Teaching Association
March 2022
Untapped Potential
Dr. Will Tarpeh and collaborators highlight both the critical challenges and chemistry-inspired innovations in water supply, re-use, and purification
March 2022
Sewer Treasure: Stanford engineers reveal how to optimize processes for transforming sulfur in wastewater to valuable materials
Anita Shao’s work on sulfur recovery was featured in a press release from the Stanford Woods Institute
February 2022
Getting in Front of the Additive Manufacturing Revolution: Enabling the Automotive Industry to be Completely Chemically Circular
Precourt Pioneering Project awarded in the focus area of re-inventing plastics and their lifecycle of use.
2021
November 2021
Algae-Inspired Adsorbents for Selective Lithium Recovery from Battery Waste Streams
ChemE Qualifying Exam
Sam Bunke
October 2021
Reimagining Wastewater: Making Pollution Obsolete
2021 Stanford Engineering Reunion
Will Tarpeh and Anna Kogler
October 2021
NextProf Nexus 2021
Elizabeth R. Corson has been selected for NextProf Nexus, a premier program for future faculty!
September 2021
Columbia University Environmental Engineering Summer Seminar Series
Qianhong Zhu and Anna Kogler have been elected as 2021 Outstanding Speakers!
August 2021
Environmental Science & Ecotechnology
Xi Chen has been nominated to be a board member of Environmental Science & Ecotechnology (ESE)!
August 2021
Electrifying reverse osmosis pretreatment using electro-assisted regeneration of pH-sensitive ion exchangers
ACS Fall 2021 Electrified Water Treatment Processes
(Section organized by Professor Will Tarpeh)
Hang Dong
Selective Recovery of Ammonia Nitrogen from Wastewaters with Transition Metal-loaded Polymeric Cation Exchange Adsorbents
ACS Fall 2021 Innovative Materials for Environmental Sustainability: Novel Adsorbents
Brandon Clark
August 2021
Electrochemical Wastewater Refining to Enable Selective Valorization of Aqueous Nitrogen Pollutants
ChemE Qualifying Exam
Dean Miller
August 2021
Waste to Value: Benchmarking and Advancing Electrochemical Nitrogen Recovery from Wastewater
Columbia University Environmental Engineering Summer Seminar Series
Anna Kogler
June 2021
Resource recovery from waste: monitoring viral loading trends to improve resolution and equity in wastewater-based epidemiology methods
CEE General Qualifying Exam
Lorelay Mendoza Grijalva
May 2021
Electrochemical Nitrogen Recovery from Wastewater: Systems-level Impacts, Fate of Organics, and Integration into Treatment Trains
CEE General Qualifying Exam
Anna Kogler
May 2021
Plasmon-Enhanced Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide
National Chemical Engineering Future Faculty Seminar
Elizabeth R. Corson
May 2021
Electrochemical Nitrogen Refining and Wastewater Valorization
Catalytic Reaction Engineering, UC Riverside (Guest Lecture)
Dean Miller
Waste to Fuels: Converting CO2 to Valuable Chemicals
Catalytic Reaction Engineering, UC Riverside (Guest Lecture)
Elizabeth R. Corson
Mar 2021
My Path in Chemical Engineering
13th AIChE Midwest Regional Conference (Keynote)
Elizabeth R. Corson
Jan 2021
One person’s waste is another's treasure
Alfa Aesar Podcast: Bringing Chemistry to Life
William A. Tarpeh
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2020
July 2020
Find Your Mentors
How To Do Grad School with Nosa Edoimioya, Episode 03 (Podcast)
William A. Tarpeh
July 2020
Transforming Waste into Wealth
Stanford Program on Water, Health, and Development
Anna Kogler
Oct 2020
Transitions to Grad School, Research Programs, and Writing
How To Do Grad School with Nosa Edoimioya, Episode 14 (Podcast)
Lorelay Mendoza
Oct 2020
Critical Thinking & Overcoming Frustration
How To Do Grad School with Nosa Edoimioya, Episode 13 (Podcast)
Lucas (Hang) Dong
Nov 2020
Lab Cultures, Exploring New Fields, & Ideas for Impact
How To Do Grad School with Nosa Edoimioya, Episode 18 (Podcast)
Anita Shao
Nov 2020
How to take the waste out of wastewater
Stanford Engineering: The Future of Everything
William A. Tarpeh
