by nmclain | Apr 23, 2025 | News
University of Oregon’s monthly research and innovation newsletter, Pursuit, features an article about an exciting project from the Institute for Health in the Built Environment (IHBE): acoustic mushrooms! IHBE co-director, Mark Fretz, and fifth-year architecture...
by nmclain | Mar 20, 2025 | News
Researchers at the Institute for Health in the Build Environment (IHBE) are among the contributors of a new paper in Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology on methods of detecting COVID-19 in a built environment. Environmental surveillance holds...
by yakhour5 | Feb 28, 2025 | News
IHBE’s Gwynne Mhuireach was awarded a USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture Seed Grant to study microbiomes of garden-fresh versus store-bought produce and the variation in their effects on the human gut microbiome. Despite the potential for food...
by Mira | Oct 4, 2021 | News, Presentation, Publication, Research
Business leaders, building scientists, engineers, microbiologists and more are working together to reopen facilities around the world. In the CLEAN 2020 Summit, these experts, including our own team, created a well-rounded picture of the challenges and sticking points...
by Mark Fretz | Mar 24, 2021 | News
The University of Oregon Biology and the Built Environment Center (BioBE Center) has conducted extensive research using Thermo Fisher Scientific’s AerosolSense air sampler. AerosolSense is an active air sampler that pulls 200 L/minute of room air into the unit for...