2025
- April 2025: MS student Cassidy Lane received UTSA Outstanding Graduate Student University Life Award
- April 2025: Tom Varner received UTSA Graduate School's Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award
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
2023
- 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
2022
- 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
2021
- 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
2020
- 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
2019
- November 2019: What's in our water and soil? UTSA professor studies the distribution of pollutants and nutrients in the ecosystem –UTSA Today
2018
- April 2018: Down to Earth: Kansas State University researcher part of $3.9 million NASA lava caves study –K-State News
2017
- 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
2016
- 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
2015
- 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
2014
- Winter 2014: Brownfield Action: Dissemination of a SENCER Model Curriculum and the Creation of a Collaborative STEM Education Network –Science Education and Civic Engagement
2013
- Winter 2013: Digging deep –Perspectives
- November 2013: Growing use of tungsten brings high risk of strokes –The Conversation
- September 2013: Study finds tungsten in aquifer groundwater controlled by pH, oxygen –ScienceDaily
- September 2013: Study finds tungsten in aquifer groundwater controlled by pH, oxygen –K-State News
- September 2013: Kansas State classes get a lesson in environmental remediation –Environmental Monitor
- August 2013: University students help reduce nitrate levels at Kansas site –K-State News
2012
- July 2012: Rock stars: Geologists testing aquifer rocks as containers to permanently trap carbon dioxide –K-State News
- March 2012: Research finds manganese concentrations higher in residential neighborhoods than industrial sites, levels vary by region –K-State News
2011
- November 2011: Geologists find ponds not the cause of arsenic poisoning in India's groundwater –Terra Daily
- November 2011: Ponds not responsible for arsenic poisoning –ZeeNews
- January 2011: National study explores the reaction and transport of tungsten in drinking water –K-State News
2009
- October 2009: Geologists studying groundwater arsenic levels in India empower Bengali women, children –ScienceDaily
