STEPS News

Nov 20, 2024

STEPS Recap of European Sustainable Phosphorus Conference

STEPS director Dr. Jacob Jones and co-lead of Knowledge Transfer Dr. Matthew Scholz recently attended the fifth European Sustainable Phosphorus Conference. The event was hosted by the European Sustainable Phosphorus…

Nov 18, 2024

STEPS Joins Forces with Water Resource Recovery Facilities to Develop Innovative Data-Driven Management Solutions

By: Rachel Kitt, STEPS Communications Intern STEPS recently hosted our second annual technical working group (TWG) meeting on biological phosphorus removal (Bio-P) with water resource recovery facility (WRRF) professionals at…

Nov 15, 2024

Phosphorus education project featured at NC Science Teachers Association conference

By: Kathleen Bordewieck STEPS researchers and scholars from our Education team attended the North Carolina Science Teachers’ Association annual conference earlier this month in Winston-Salem, NC. Dr. Gail Jones, Kathleen…

Nov 13, 2024

Machine Learning Predicts Highest Risk Groundwater Sites to Improve Water Quality Monitoring

Written by: Matt Shipman, NC State News Services (matt_shipman@ncsu.edu). Originally posted on NC State News. An interdisciplinary team of researchers has developed a machine learning framework that uses limited water quality samples…

Oct 23, 2024

The STEPS Seminar Series Welcomes Andrew J. Margenot

Rethinking phosphorus: a case for a biogeochemical approach in agroecosystems Author: Andrew J. Margenot Affiliation: Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Ecologically simplified landscapes of the Midwest…

Oct 3, 2024

STEPS 2024-2025 Director’s Fellows

By: Rachel Kitt, STEPS Communication Intern STEPS is thrilled to announce three recipients of our Director’s Fellowship for 2024-2025. The fellowship, now in its second year, demonstrates STEPS is committed…

Aug 14, 2024

The STEPS Seminar Series Welcomes Roland D. Cusick

Identifying opportunities and challenges for phosphorus recovery and reuse from agricultural and municipal waste streams Author: Roland D. Cusick Affiliation: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at…

Jul 29, 2024

The Morning Star: 25-in-25, in 2500 words

The STEPS Center’s vision is to facilitate a 25% reduction in human dependence on mined phosphates and a 25% reduction in losses of point and non-point sources of phosphorus to…

Jul 18, 2024

STEPS Center Receives Insight Into Diversity Magazine’s 2024 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award

(Raleigh, NC; for immediate release)—Today, the STEPS Center received the 2024 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award from Insight Into Diversity magazine, the largest and oldest diversity and inclusion publication in…

Jul 16, 2024

STEPS ExPlorers Summer 2024 Program Recap

By: Kailyn Gilliam From July 8-12, 2024, STEPS hosted our annual STEPS ExPlorers summer program, a one-week camp for high school students passionate about STEM. The camp took place at…