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2024

June 2024: MS student Ronny Saunders received a Geological Society of America scholarship
April 2024: The lab's first PhD! Tom Varner defended his dissertation "Biogeochemical Controls on Arsenic Mobility Within Sediments"
(Dissertation Committee Members: Saugata Datta, Heather Shipley, Steven Goodbred (external: Vanderbilt), Hatim Sharif, and Hongjie Xie)
February 2024: Doctoral student Tom Varner studies solutions to prevent contaminated water sources –UTSA Today
January 2024: USDA awards nearly $500,000 to UTSA researchers for study on how land use affects soil health –UTSA Today

June 2023: MS student Ruben Olivares Jr received a Geological Society of America research grant
May 2023: Undergraduate student Cassidy Lane accepted into NSF Undergraduate Research Program
May 2023: MS student Ruben Olivares Jr invited speaker at 2023 iSTEM Symposium
March 2023: MS student Steven Hollan elected as GSA Geology and Health student representative

October 2022: Dr. Saugata Datta received the GSA Geology and Health Division Meritorious Service Award
October 2022: MS student Ruben Olivares Jr awarded GSA Geology and Health Division Student Research Grant
September 2022: MS student Ruben Olivares Jr and Dr. Harshad Kulkarni represented IWRSP at iSTEM Education Program and delivered a guest lecture on "Water Quality in Texas-Mexico Border Region"
August 2022: PhD student Tom Varner featured in COS #ThisIsWhatAScientistLooksLike
August 2022: CDC finds that 80% of children and adults have traces of weed-killing chemical linked to cancer –KSAT
June 2022: PhD student Kuzipa Kapayi received an NSF/GSA Graduate Student Geoscience Research Grant
June 2022: PhD student Tom Varner awarded Fulbright Scholarship –UTSA Today
June 2022: PhD student Protik Banerjee received a GSA Research Grant
May 2022: Dr. Saugata Datta named a 2022 GSA Fellow
April 2022: PhD student Tom Varner qualified for a Fulbright Scholarship
February 2022: MS student Ashley Aguilar featured in COS #ThisIsWhatAScientistLooksLike

December 2021: PhD student Tom Varner part of first place team in Transdisciplinary Team Grand Challenge: Water
November 2021: Dr. Saugata Datta collaborator on research to identify sources of lead poisoning in children –TAMU News
October 2021: MS student Ashley Aguilar awarded On to the Future grant for GSA Connects 2021
July 2021: Dr. Saugata Datta is the faculty lead for STIR-UP –UTSA Today
June 2021: MS student Ashley Aguilar featured in MIRO Program web article
January 2021: Constant changes to environmental laws can have a negative impact on environment –KSAT

November 2020: MS student Ashley Aguilar awarded Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program Grant
October 2020: IWRSP Director Dr. Datta part of Roundtable: Discover Transdisciplinary Research at UTSA
August 2020: MS student Katrina Poling among the COVID-19 Transdisciplinary Team Grand Challenge winners –UTSA Today
July 2020: Grant-winning PhD student Tom Varner has a passion for science and environment –UTSA Today

November 2019: What's in our water and soil? UTSA professor studies the distribution of pollutants and nutrients in the ecosystem –UTSA Today

April 2018: Down to Earth: Kansas State University researcher part of $3.9 million NASA lava caves study –K-State News

Fall 2017: Spotlight on faculty research: Dr. Saugata Datta –K-State Geology News
June 2017: Manganese concentration in drinking water needs attention, researchers say –K-State News

Spring 2016: Rock stars: Protecting resources with microbial "control knobs" –Seek Research Magazine
February 2016: How safe is your tap water? A post-Flint primer on how to protect yourself –Vogue Magazine

May 2015: Life on Mars and lava beds on Earth | KTVL News 10
Spring 2015: A Thirst for Geology –K-State Students of A&S
Spring 2015: Yerby follows passion, recharts future path –Olathe School News