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Dr. Gwynne Mhuireach Honored for Groundbreaking Urban Soil Study

Dr. Gwynne Mhuireach Honored for Groundbreaking Urban Soil Study

by nmclain | Aug 12, 2025 | Awards, News

Congratulations to IHBE member Dr. Gwynne Mhuireach, recipient of the Outstanding Article Award from Urban Agriculture and Regional Food Systems (UARFS)! Her award-winning article, “Garden soil bacteria transiently colonize gardeners’ skin after direct soil contact,”...
OregonNews Features College of Design Students Building Skills for the Future

OregonNews Features College of Design Students Building Skills for the Future

by nmclain | Aug 11, 2025 | News

A recent OregonNews feature highlights how the College of Design is preparing students for careers in architecture through a hands-on studio course led by IHBE co-director Mark Fretz. In this course, students designed hospitals built from mass timber, a sustainable...
OregonNews Highlights IHBE Research on Mass Timber and Hospital Microbiomes

OregonNews Highlights IHBE Research on Mass Timber and Hospital Microbiomes

by nmclain | Jul 22, 2025 | News

Following our exciting new research into how mass timber can improve healthcare settings and their microbiomes, OregonNews has picked up the story and is helping share our findings. While wood has long been considered too unsanitary for hospital use, recent studies...
The Future of Healthy Architecture: Siobhan Rockcastle on Daylight Design (Keynote in Munich)

The Future of Healthy Architecture: Siobhan Rockcastle on Daylight Design (Keynote in Munich)

by nmclain | Jul 19, 2025 | News

Siobhan Rockcastle presented a keynote at the 2025 Daylight Academy Conference in Munich on May 22nd, 2025.  The talk, titled ‘Designing healthy daylit spaces: the intersection between research and practice’ presented applied consulting work in daylight...
New Paper Explores How Wood Influences Indoor Thermal Comfort

New Paper Explores How Wood Influences Indoor Thermal Comfort

by nmclain | May 20, 2025 | News, Publication

Mark Fretz and Jason Stenson of the Institute For Health in the Built Environment (IHBE) and Energy Studies in Buildings Laboratory (ESBL) have published a new paper in Buildings, titled Impact of Wood on Perception of Transient and Steady-State Indoor Thermal...
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