🎉 Spring 2025 Highlights from Our Lab.

We’re excited to share recent milestones and recognitions from our amazing team.

  • Christian Ayala-Ortiz and Viviana Estefania Freire Zapata both successfully defended their dissertations—congratulations to Drs. Ayala-Ortiz and Dr. Freire Zapata!
  • Mekayla Crawford successfully defended her master’s thesis—well done!
  • PI Malak Tfaily has been promoted to Full Professor
  • Christian also earned 2nd place in the poster competition at the 2025 ENViSion Conference—great work!
  • Ben Yang won 1st place in the Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences category at the ALSVCE Research Symposium. Representing the Department of Environmental Sciences, Ben continues to make us proud.