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Research and Scholarship at Baylor, Winter 2016
What if a common, familiar organism, considered a nuisance by many, could be used to clean a city's water supply while simultaneously creating the power it takes to do so? That's a question that Dr. Scott James, assistant professor in Baylor's departments of geosciences and mechanical engineering, seeks to answer.
Most people can relate to searching for the answer to a health-related question online, but people don't all react the same way to what they find. Some do a simple search and are satisfied with what they find. Others don’t withdraw from the cyber-world of medical information so quickly, and the information they find can lead to anxiety.
Molecules containing benzene are everywhere. They can brighten the displays of many of the household electronics in everyday use and are found in much of the medicine we take.