Dr. Charlie Rolsky, Executive Director & Senior Research Scientist at the Shaw Institute, will be presenting at the prestigious ACS Spring 2024. The conference runs March 17 - 21, in New Orleans, and Dr. Rolsky's talk will take place Thursday, March 21, 2024 from 9:20 AM - 9:40 AM ET. TOPIC: Characterizing Human Exposure to […]
Our Associate Scientist, Michelle Berger, will be presenting a poster at the Maine Sustainability and Water Conference that will delve into our process of exploring the sources and extent of PFAS contamination in the town of Surry after it was discovered at the local elementary school. Poster presentations will take place between 10:30am and 11:30am. […]
SOLD OUT The Shaw Institute's Executive Director, Dr. Charlie Rolsky, will be speaking at the 6th Maine Aquaculture R&D&E Summit will be held at the Maine Maritime Academy in Castine, Maine, on January 9th, 2025. Hosted by the University of Maine Aquaculture Research Institute and the Maine Aquaculture Innovation Center, this year’s Summit will focus […]
As part of the National Graduate Research Polymer Conference (NGRPC), administered by ACS POLY, the Shaw Institute's Executive Director, Dr. Charlie Rolsky, will be participating in a panel discussion on finding success as a grad student and after grad school. He and others will be offering advice you could give to graduate students as they […]
Our Executive Director, Dr. Charlie Rolsky, will be presenting our research at the prestigious ACS conference. Laundry and dish detergent pods are incredibly popular, but they introduce a "water-soluble" plastic called Polyvinyl Alcohol (PVA) into our wastewater. While often considered biodegradable, new research reveals that PVA often survives conventional wastewater treatment processes. Our study specifically […]