Month: January 2021

ENVE3103:Water Quality/ENVE 3203:Water and Wastewater Treatment 

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Link to ECU Course Catalog What is this CURE about: The proposed two-semester CURE will enable teams of junior-level environmental engineering (EE) to apply learned concepts and actively participate in the research and engineering design processes to ultimately test the efficacy of designed treatment technologies for remediation of nonpoint source contaminants. Treatment technologies will be … Read more

BIOL3661: Marine Biology Lab

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Link to ECU Course Catalog What is this CURE about: The overarching goal of this CURE is to examine the distribution of microplastic pollution and its impacts on coastal organisms in estuaries with contrasting amounts of urbanization.  We hypothesize that more urbanized estuaries will contain a higher concentration of microplastic debris in both the water … Read more

CHEM2753/63:Organic Chemistry I and II Lab

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Link to ECU Course Catalog What is this CURE:  There are two sections of Organic II CUREs. Dr. Allen’s students will design and synthesize non-natural amino acids that change their fluorescence output in response to changes in acidity. Proteins containing the amino acids will be added to heart cells to determine how lowered blood pH damages … Read more