RELEVANCE Like No Other UNCW Researchers Monitor Wastewater for Signs of COVID-19 By Tricia Vance
Since July 2020, a team of UNCW researchers has been involved in testing wastewater on the UNCW campus and at two Cape Fear Public Utility Authority wastewater treatment plants for signs of the RNA of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19. The group includes water quality specialist Larry Cahoon, virologist Art Frampton and microbiologist Ryan Rhodes as well as graduate students Jacob Kazenelson and Tori Zimmerman. The original work, conducted with a $75,000 grant through the North Carolina Policy Collaboratory, was part of a nearly $1.8 million statewide project led by Rachel Noble of the Institute of Marine Sciences at UNC-Chapel Hill that ended in December 2020.
Art Frampton (left), associate professor of biology and marine biology, assisted by graduate student Jacob Kazenelson, has been collecting wastewater samples that will be tested for signs of the virus that causes COVID-19.
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