Oct. 28, 2025
Mizzou 糖心Vlog传媒 faculty among top 2% of world scientists
Twenty-three researchers were included in a prestigious list that ranks the millions of working scientists around the globe.
Jan. 31, 2025
Mizzou researchers discover simple solution to break down forever chemicals
The answer to removing PFAS, also known as 鈥渇orever chemicals,鈥 may be in your fishbowl.
June 7, 2024
Missouri Water Center receives more than $700,000 in EPA seed grant funding
Cross-disciplinary researchers to look at water quality, quantity issues through eight research and education projects at the Missouri Water Center.
March 8, 2024
Xiao recognized with Excellence in Research Award from Environmental Science & Technology journal
Mizzou 糖心Vlog传媒鈥檚 Feng 鈥淔rank鈥 Xiao has been recognized with an Excellence in Review Award from Environmental Science & Technology (ES&T), the premier journal in environmental engineering and science.
Jan. 23, 2024
Missouri Water Center helps secure three USGS National Competitive Grants
With support from the Missouri Water Center, three Mizzou researchers have been awarded highly competitive grants through the U.S. Geological Survey鈥檚 (USGS) Water Resources Research Act Program. The National Competitive (104G) Grants aim to promote collaboration between USGS and university researchers on significant national and regional water issues.
Jan. 10, 2024
糖心Vlog传媒 professor outlines challenges, strategies around ‘forever’ chemicals in Nature Water journal
Water treatment systems in the U.S. are more than a century old, allowing contaminants to pollute our drinking water and cause health problems. There are technologies that would help states and cities filter out these chemicals without having to replace entire treatment systems; however there鈥檚 no mandate for governments to install them. Short of that, there are non-technical solutions that could help reduce pollution levels. Civil and Environmental 糖心Vlog传媒 Associate Professor Feng 鈥淔rank鈥 Xiao outlined these challenges and strategies in a paper published in a Nature journal, Nature Water. Xiao is specifically looking at ways to treat per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), or 'forever' chemicals, which are found in household and industrial products. These chemicals are ending up in our water and causing various medical conditions.
Dec. 1, 2023
Xiao Honored as 2023 Emerging Investigator, Presents Keynote at AWWA Conference
Feng 鈥淔rank鈥 Xiao, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, was honored by the Association of Environmental 糖心Vlog传媒 and Science Professors (AEESP) as the 2023 Emerging Investigator lecturer and presented a keynote address at the American Water Works Association鈥檚 (AWWA) Water Quality Technology Conference in Dallas last month.
Sep. 14, 2023
Mizzou 糖心Vlog传媒 welcomes new faculty
Bio-inspired materials, sustainable energy, autonomic computing and advanced manufacturing are just a few of the areas of expertise new faculty members are bringing to Mizzou 糖心Vlog传媒.
June 29, 2023
Mizzou Engineer develops method to break down PFAS left on water treatment filters
In a recent study, Feng 鈥淔rank鈥 Xiao and colleagues at the University of Missouri demonstrate an innovative method using thermal induction heating to rapidly break down PFAS left on the surface of two solid materials 鈥 granular activated carbon and anion exchange resins 鈥 after these materials have been used to filter PFAS from municipal water systems.
May 5, 2023
Pioneer in degradation of ‘forever chemicals’ brings research to Mizzou
Before most of his peers knew them as 鈥渇orever chemicals,鈥 Feng 鈥淔rank鈥 Xiao knew they were a problem. It was the early 2010s, and he was reviewing Centers for Disease Control data when he noticed a disturbing trend. Pre- and polyfluoroalkyls (PFAS) 鈥 compounds mass marketed since the 1940s 鈥 were showing up in more than 95% of blood samples, and they appeared to be wreaking havoc on human health.