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My name is Brad Newsome and I am a fifth-year grad student at the University of Kentucky
and co-advised by Bernie Hennig and Leonidas Bachas.
When I'm not in the lab you can usually find me cycling around the horse farms of Bluegrass
or building something, whether it is a piece of furniture or flipping a house.
My research here deals with the development of composite nanomaterials for both sensing
and capture of PCBs, which are common environmental pollutants.
By incorporating membrane filtration and magnetic separation with natural antioxidant polymers
that are really great at binding organic pollutants, you're able to create this very non-toxic,
simple means of addressing pollution issues here at Superfund sites in the U.S., as well
as around the world in developing nations.
This work is soon taking me to Southeast Asia to work through the Fulbright program for
developing water remediation techniques to deal with the rapid production of environmental
pollutants in Cambodia.
And along the way I'm working with a lot of education initiatives with students to get
them involved in hands-on research to provide a new means of getting kids excited about
entering the STEM fields.
So my time in both Africa and Southeast Asia are a means of figuring out how best I can
I can interact with developing nations through implementing science and technology in a more
effective way to really aid and drive development.