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Aerosol Surveillance: Detection & Prevention of COVID-19

COVID seems like it is here to stay, and as we move into an endemic era, we need reliable and cost-effective solutions to support safe indoor congregation. If air contamination levels can be examined in buildings, we may be able to better control and identify COVID-19...

COVID-19 and the Built Environment

As corporate entities, city, county, state and federal governments around the world take action against the spread of COVID-19, the built environment has been thrust onto center stage with a prominent role. Therefore, the unique expertise of researchers at the...

02/15/2020 Remembering GZ Brown

With the recent passing of one of our dearest members, founders and influencers; we are remembering GZ “Charlie” Brown with high regards knowing how much he impacted architecture and everyone around him throughout his life. Specifically, his time here at the...

Latest Publication from BioBE!

This past January 2020, the publication How Light Exposure Changes Bacterial Communities in Household Dust was published under new discovery at Frontiers for Young Minds. The full article can be read here on their website. Rosenberg, S., Ishaq, S., May, J., and...

Review on health in the built environment

Hot off the press, a new review on health in the built environment is available today!  The article is found here, but an open-access, view-only version is available here.  It's part of the Healthy Building special issue from the Journal of Exposure Science &...

2016 Pacific Northwest Women in Science Retreat

I (Ashley Bateman) recently won a scholarship from the Women in Graduate Sciences organization at the University of Oregon, to attend the 2016 Pacific Northwest Women in Science Retreat. The event was held at Camp Magruder in Rockaway Beach, OR from July 8th-10th. The...

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“Microbiology of Built Environments” FAQ

The American Academy of Microbiology has published a FAQ report on the microbiology of the built environment colloquium convened in September 2015. The report is "based on the deliberations of experts who gathered for a full day to discuss a series of questions...

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Built environment microbiome design charrette

In December we posted about the design-oriented microbiome course that doctoral candidate Gwynne Mhuireach would be teaching in the winter term. Students in the course were tasked to do a design charrette (short duration intense design exercise) for their final, in...

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Recent activities at the BioBE Center

April was a busy month at the BioBE Center! Read more about our recent activities below: BioBE Center Director Jessica Green presented "Building Wellness: Creating Healthier Homes, Hospitals, and Offices with Microbiology" at the Heinz Distinguished Lecture Series...

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Biology and the built environment center

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