John Fortner

📢 Today is a Historic Day! ⚠April 10: Final PFAS National Primary Drinking Water #Regulation 🚰 In addition to today’s final rule, $1 billion in newly available through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to help states and territories implement #PFAS testing and treatment.

Excited to share our work on a new separation method for PFAS! PFOA esterification yields highly insoluble products which readily precipitate out of water. Read about it in ES&T letters go.acs.org/8Kj

Exciting news! The 2024 Roberts Innovation Fund Awards have been announced and this year, they are supporting groundbreaking inventions in AI, quantum computing, water purification, drug delivery, and more. Learn more about the projects: seas.yale.edu/roberts2024 @yaleventures

Roberts Innovation Fund Awardee, John Fortner, is developing innovative technologies to tackle PFAS pollution, a global public health threat, with potential to outperform conventional treatment methods. Full story: loom.ly/lz1r8M4

What many people don't know: recent decades have seen incredible reductions in poverty. The poverty rate has *never before* been this low in human history. What new data is now revealing: after the setback from Covid, poverty reduction now continues! blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/pover…

Yale Environmental Engineering is recruiting faculty at all ranks @YaleSEAS @YaleEnvEng @TheElimelechLab @johnfortner @drew_gentner @jordan_peccia @LeaRWinter aeesp.org/jobs/3244

The success of all the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals depends on achieving Sustainable Development Goal 6 – universal access to safe water and sanitation. Learn more about this global goal and the work we’re doing to help achieve it. water.org/achieving-sdg6/ #SDG6

Our latest ES:Nano publication addresses an often overlooked aspect of surface coated nanoparticles in water @JunseokLee16 @CHANGWO92006414, Daniel Schmucker, Dr. Steve Lee, @SLiao888 @nlcapiro, Prof. Kurt Pennell @johnfortner* @YaleEnvEng @EnvSciRSC pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Check out our recent pub in npj Clean Water "Ultra-high capacity, multifunctional nanoscale sorbents for PFOA and PFOS treatment" Fantastic work by @JunseokLee16 @CHANGWO92006414, Chen Liu, @Michael_S_Wong @nlcapiro, kurt pennell @johnfortner* @YaleEnvEng nature.com/articles/s4154…

Excited to share our recent article, "Nanobubble Reactivity: Evaluating Hydroxyl Radical Generation (or Lack Thereof) under Ambient Conditions," in ES&T Eng. @EnvSciTech @Seung_Hee_Chae (1st author), Min Sik Kim, @JaehongKim_Yale (co-corresponding author) pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

@YaleEnvEng just posted a faculty search. Ad is at AEESP website below. Come and find our faculty to chat if you are interested in @AEESP2023_NEU aeesp.org/jobs/3244

Old Campus, new graduates – an incredible day in New Haven! A few snapshots capturing the joy of Yale University's 322nd Commencement. Congratulations to the entire Class of 2023! #Yale2023 🎓

Congratulations Class of 2023! I'm so proud of you! #Classof2023 #graduation #yale

#NEWTfaculty, Dr. @johnfortner @Yale is inviting you to the Gordon Research Conference focused on Environmental Nanotechnology held in beautiful Sunday River Maine, June 4 - 9. grc.org/environmental-…

This year's Yale Alumni Reception at @AEESP2023_NEU will be very special; we will celebrate 25 years of @YaleEnvEng and present for the first time Distinguished Alumni Awards to recognize our excellent alumni @TheElimelechLab @johnfortner @jordan_peccia @LeaRWinter @drew_gentner

I am thrilled to announce the transformation of the @YaleSEAS campus - a historic investment in the heart of Yale's campus for the School of Engineering & Applied Science. My deep thanks to President Salovey and Provost Strobel for their support. news.yale.edu/2023/02/23/yal…

@CostaSamaras Thanks, Costa!

@johnfortner @YaleEnvEng Congratulations!

I have been promoted to Full Professor and want to express my deepest gratitude to all of my mentors, colleagues, collaborators, Fortner Lab members (past and present), and family. I will forever be grateful for your time and support – truly honored to pay it forward. @YaleEnvEng

@tooslar @YaleEnvEng Thank you, Ebenezer!

@johnfortner @YaleEnvEng Congrats Prof. Greater heights

@devkaya Thank you!!

@lmgLab @YaleEnvEng Thanks, Leanne!!

@johnfortner @YaleEnvEng What a milestone! Congratulations @johnfortner