by Mark Fretz | Dec 16, 2020 | News
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the role that built environments play in transmitting the disease has become clear and caused a focused effort on eliminating the SARS-CoV-2 pathogen from built environments. However, in a recent article by Caroline Winter at Bloomberg...
by Mark Fretz | Jul 27, 2020 | News
Working together with collaborators in infectious disease and surgery at Oregon Health & Science University, a Biology and the Built Environment Center team investigated hospital windows and associated components (glass, frame, curtains) to see if any of these...
by Mark Fretz | Jul 14, 2020 | News
The University of Oregon’s Institute for Health in the Built Environment and Biology and the Built Environment Center have been developing a blueprint for saving lives and livelihoods by revealing the unseen in buildings through strategic building environmental...
by Mark Fretz | Jun 8, 2020 | News
Soil health and biodiversity are closely linked to human health. Despite this, we currently know very little about interactions between gardeners and soil microbes, even though gardening offers extensive opportunities for such interactions. Whether exposure to soil...
by Mark Fretz | May 12, 2020 | News
Director Van Den Wymelenberg was interviewed by CBS This Morning to share information about the potential indoor aerosol transmission risk of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19). These conceptual visualizations are meant to help the general public understand more about indoor...
