New York. The J. William Fulbright Scholarship Board (FSB) in Washington, constituting of 12 members nominated by the President of the United States, conferred Professor Giorgio Mannina from the University of Palermo with a research grant to carry out a study in the United States as a “research fellow” for the duration of the 2017/2018 academic year. The grant given by Fulbright, followed by a rigorous selection on the national scale, will support Prof. Mannina in the development of research regarding the study of climate-altering gas emissions from advanced water treatment systems. The focus has also been the object of the PRIN research project that Prof. Mannina coordinated until March 2017. The study, object of the Fulbright Research Fellowship, will be conducted at Columbia University in New York. Prof. Mannina will collaborate with Prof. Kartik Chandran, Director of the Columbia Laboratory for Environmental Engineering. (9olonne)
