Engineers Are Unsung Heroes Of Global Health

When you think of global health, who comes to your mind? I bet you thought of doctors, nurses, public health specialists, disease detectives and academic researchers. You probably did not think of engineers.

Hampshire Alum and Water Resource Engineer Mimi Alkattan receives Fulbright Award to Research in India

Hampshire alum and environmental engineer Mimi Alkattan 13F recently received a Fulbright Award to conduct research on the drinking water quality supplied to Indian cities. "Cities in India, and other low- to middle-income communities, receive piped drinking water only intermittently to their households.

Ep. 32 - Marsha, Mimi, and Kim by Lab Talk with Laura

This episode is all about water! We are joined by Marsha Allen from Geosciences and Mimi Alkattan from Civil and Environmental Engineering. Marsha explains her work studying storage and movement of water in the fractured bedrock of the island of Tobago, in order to plan for sustainable water pumping that considers future impacts from climate change.

Mimi Alkattan: Researching Sustainable Water-Treatment Alternatives

Division III project: Water Resource Engineering at the Edges: Application of Drinking Water Resource Engineering and Research in Low-Income and High-Income CommunitiesFaculty Advisers: Professor Christina Cianfrani, Professor Elizabeth Conlisk, Kaoru Ikuma, assistant professor at Iowa State UniversityAcademic Intersections: Natural Science and Critical Social Inquiry "Sixty percent of the water projects in the developing world fail.

Field Trip! Lab fun at UMass Engineering with alum Mimi Alkattan

This week, the R.W. Kern Center interns took a trip over to UMass to check out Hampshire alum Mimi Alkattan's lab and research on intermittent water supplies (IWS). Behind this wonderful selfie are two pipe loops where Mimi has been evaluating water quality in both a "standard" and intermittent supply.