News

April 30, 2016
Our own Karolina Mellor and Grace Lasker from the University of Washington led a workshop for high school students in collaboration with Pathways to Science. The half-day...
March 29, 2016
Congratulations to Nina for receiving the NSF Graduate Student Research Fellowship!  *Taken from Plata Lab Website: http://platalab.yale.edu/news/nina-receives-nsf-graduate-...
March 24, 2016
The interview is listed here.
March 16, 2016
Pictured: The Environmental Engineering faculty (from left to right): Menachem Elimelech, Julie Zimmerman, Jaehong Kim, Drew Gentner, Jordan Peccia, and Desiree Plata. With...
March 9, 2016
For a project that seeks to develop a means of controllably synthesizing nanomaterials – and foster better communications among scientists - Desiree Plata has received a 2016...
October 11, 2015
Megan O’Connor, a Yale Visiting Assistant Researcher in Plata’s lab, was named one of three finalists for the Odebrecht Award for Sustainable Development. The award...
October 10, 2015
The event consisted of consecutive 2.4-mile swim,112-mile bicycle ride and 26.2-mile run – totaling 140.6 grueling miles. Cammie did it in just over 11 hours. ...