by Mark Fretz | Dec 14, 2025 | News
IHBE Co-Director Mark Fretz discusses healthy buildings with KLCC’s Barbara Dellenback on the Oregon Grapevine. Fretz talks about IHBE design research and topics range from growing building materials to opening your windows. Share this:Share Click to share on...
by Mark Fretz | Dec 14, 2025 | News
Design research conducted by the Institute for Health in the Built Environment was recently featured in Nature in an article titled, “The probiotic home: Where microbes are welcome guests,” by Katherine Bourzac. The article was part of Nature Outlook: The...
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,”...
by nmclain | Apr 27, 2025 | News, Publication
As part of our on-going mass timber work, Dr. Gwynne Mhuireach just published a paper entitled, “Effects of wetting events on mass timber surface microbial communities and VOC emissions: Implications for building operation and occupant well-being.” The...
by Gwynne Mhuireach | Aug 30, 2023 | News, Research
Did you know that every day, we eat billions of microbes (bacteria, fungi, viruses) inhabiting our food? According to Wasserman et al. (2019), a single apple harbors about 100,000,000 bacteria, not to mention an unquantified number of fungi, viruses, and other...
