chemistry / en Retro Mason: Hussam wins Grainger Challenge Prize 2007 /news/2022-08/retro-mason-hussam-wins-grainger-challenge-prize-2007 <span>Retro Mason: Hussam wins Grainger Challenge Prize 2007</span> <span><span lang="" about="/user/231" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="" xml:lang="">Colleen Rich</span></span> <span>Wed, 08/03/2022 - 13:10</span> <div class="layout layout--gmu layout--twocol-section layout--twocol-section--30-70"> <div class="layout__region region-first"> </div> <div class="layout__region region-second"> <div data-block-plugin-id="field_block:node:news_release:body" class="block block-layout-builder block-field-blocknodenews-releasebody"> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-visually_hidden"> <div class="field__label visually-hidden">Body</div> <div class="field__item"><div> <div class="field field--name-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img src="/sites/g/files/yyqcgq291/files/2022-08/070223150.jpg" width="1000" height="665" alt="two men working in lab" loading="lazy" typeof="foaf:Image" /></div> </div> <p><span><span><span>ÑÇÖÞAV chemistry professor <a href="https://science.gmu.edu/directory/abul-hussam">Abul Hussam</a> won the $1 million Grainger Challenge Prize for Sustainability Gold Award from the National Academy of Engineering for his inexpensive water filtration system designed to remove arsenic from drinking water in his native Bangladesh. </span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span>In some developing areas, village water wells often contain the poisonous element arsenic. In Bangladesh alone, more than 18 million people daily drink arsenic-contaminated water. For Hussam, this threat hit close to home. After years of research and testing, Hussam and his brothers developed </span><a href="http://spirit.gmu.edu/archives/spring07/hussam.html"><span>the Sono filter</span></a><span>, which costs only $35 and lasts at least five years. More than 250,000 of these filters can be found in homes, schools, and businesses in Bangladesh, Nepal, and India.</span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span>His invention also garnered him the Bangladesh American Society for Humanity Award and led <em>Time</em> magazine to name Hussam one of the 2007 Global Heroes of the Environment.</span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span>Hussam, pictured here (left) in 2007 with </span><span>graduate student Kirubel Assegid and the Sono filter, is </span><span>director of the Center for Clean Water and Sustainable Technologies in the College of Science.</span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><a href="https://spirit.gmu.edu/archives/spring07/hussam.html"><span>Read more about him in the Spring 2007 Mason Spirit.</span></a></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span>Photo credit: Evan Cantwell/Creative Services</span></span></span></p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> <div data-block-plugin-id="field_block:node:news_release:field_content_topics" class="block block-layout-builder block-field-blocknodenews-releasefield-content-topics"> <h2>Topics</h2> <div class="field field--name-field-content-topics field--type-entity-reference field--label-visually_hidden"> <div class="field__label visually-hidden">Topics</div> <div class="field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/15051" hreflang="en">Retro Mason</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/116" hreflang="en">Campus News</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/14441" hreflang="en">Masonat50</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/291" hreflang="en">College of Science</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/6316" hreflang="en">chemistry</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/3076" hreflang="en">invention</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> Wed, 03 Aug 2022 17:10:05 +0000 Colleen Rich 74681 at U.S. Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton visits Mason’s Science and Technology Campus /news/2019-04/us-congresswoman-jennifer-wexton-visits-masons-science-and-technology-campus <span> U.S. Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton visits Mason’s Science and Technology Campus</span> <span><span lang="" about="/user/236" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="" xml:lang="">Melanie Balog</span></span> <span>Tue, 04/16/2019 - 05:44</span> <div class="layout layout--gmu layout--twocol-section layout--twocol-section--30-70"> <div class="layout__region region-first"> </div> <div class="layout__region region-second"> <div data-block-plugin-id="field_block:node:news_release:field_content_topics" class="block block-layout-builder block-field-blocknodenews-releasefield-content-topics"> <h2>Topics</h2> <div class="field field--name-field-content-topics field--type-entity-reference field--label-visually_hidden"> <div class="field__label visually-hidden">Topics</div> <div class="field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/2411" hreflang="en">Size</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/1331" hreflang="en">Impact</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/1371" hreflang="en">Quality</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/2161" hreflang="en">Science & Technology Campus</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/1046" hreflang="en">Institute for Biohealth Innovation</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/6326" hreflang="en">Virginia Serious Game Institute</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/6316" hreflang="en">chemistry</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/6321" hreflang="en">biochemistry</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/6236" hreflang="en">Dr. S. 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