In the article "Math's Kao, Engineering's Shen Win CAREER Awards," GW Today highlights two GW professors who each received the National Science Foundation's most prestigious research honor, a Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award. Among them is Yun Shen, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at GW Engineering, whose project examines the transmission and control of environmental pathogens in municipal wastewater.
Here is an excerpt from the article: "The CAREER grant will allow Shen and her team to deeply investigate the full course of bacteria-associated enteric viruses in wastewater, from emergence to infection and beyond. They will explore the mechanisms by which these aquatic interactions between viruses and bacteria occur, measure the disinfection resistance and increased virulence of such associations and track their impact on the health of infected hosts—incorporating an immunological component beyond the scope of most engineering research. "
Read the full article on GW Today.