Environmental Engineering & Toxicology

1988 Switzer Fellow Dr. Mark Schlautman is a professor at Clemson University in the Department of Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences. A project in which Mark played a key role over a number of years recently made headlines in California. The Brake Pad Partnership, led by San Francisco-based Sustainable Conservation, led the effort to pass legislation reducing the use of copper in brake pads in California.

Switzer Fellow Carol Tucker, who manages the New England Brownfields Program for the US Environmental Protection Agency, explains how brownfields offer major opportunities for community development and revitalization.

Seventy-four billion pounds of industrial chemicals enter the U.S. daily. Many are toxic, and most will survive long-term to impact life on earth. Global chemical production will double in the next 24 years. As the Integrated Sciences Associate Director of UC Berkeley's new Center for Green Chemistry, 2002 Switzer Fellow Dr. Michael Wilson rides the cutting edge of the essential, emerging field called green chemistry.

Seventy-four billion pounds of industrial chemicals enter the U.S. daily. Many are toxic, and all will impact life on earth. Switzer Fellow Michael Wilson rides the cutting edge of this essential, emerging field.

Lead-based paint enjoyed widespread use up until 1978. In her effort to save a species, Switzer fellow Myra Finkelstein uses the latest scientific tools to pinpoint crumbling paint as the source of painful diseases, crippling wing mutations, and early death in albatross chicks.

Ready for the challenge of a lifetime? Switzer Fellow Michael Wilson rides the cutting edge of this essential, emerging field. Learn more about the work of Switzer fellow Michael Wilson.

Innovations in technology have to date primarily been driven by consumer demand for smaller, lighter, and faster gadgets, especially those that are loaded with the latest features. As a society, we have benefited from technological advances that increase efficiency, add new communications capabilities, create life-saving devices, and more. However, there is a dark side to the electronics industry that remains hidden as we as consumers happily shop for our shiny new toys: waste.