{"id":271134,"date":"2020-01-08T16:20:22","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T21:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yfiledev.uit.yorku.ca\/?p=271134"},"modified":"2025-04-03T11:27:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T15:27:19","slug":"research-on-global-environmental-safety-earns-professor-satinder-brar-international-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/2020\/01\/08\/research-on-global-environmental-safety-earns-professor-satinder-brar-international-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Research on global environmental safety earns Professor Satinder Brar international award"},"content":{"rendered":"

快播视频's James & Joanne Love Chair in Environmental Engineering, Satinder Brar, first became interested in research and the environment at a young age in India thanks to her grandfather, a farmer, who taught her the values of environmental sustainability.<\/p>\n

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Satinder Kaur Brar<\/p><\/div>\n

Since then, the civil engineering professor's distinguished accomplishments in the fields of environmental sustainability and green chemistry have broken boundaries, initiating many practical projects around the world, making great improvements to global environmental safety.<\/p>\n

In recognition of that work, the Save the Environment<\/a> (STE) presented the International Achiever Award to Brar in October 2019 during the National Conference on Water Crisis, Public Health and Sustainable Solutions & First Annual Meet of Save The Environment, organized at Indian National Science Academy in New Delhi, India.<\/p>\n

Recognized as an international wastewater researcher, Brar\u2019s work contributes meaningfully to these UN SDGs, as her work aims to find innovative ways for cleaning contaminated water, ensuring communities have access to clean and safe drinking water for generations to come. Brar is often invited to talks during international forums and conferences on applied biotechnology, which is the science of manipulating microorganisms to produce antibiotics and hormones.<\/p>\n

With more than 400 publications and an outstanding h-index \u2013 an author-level metric that measures both the productivity and citation impact of scholarly publications \u2013 of 50, Brar has made it her mission to find harmony between economical advancements and environmental conservation.<\/p>\n

This award is a testament to the massive impact Brar\u2019s work is having on the planet.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Brar\u2019s] scientific accomplishments have indeed brought laurels to our nation. [She] is truly an exemplary inspiration for environmentalists and biotechnologists across the world,\u201d Kshipra Misra, president, STE.<\/p>\n

Within an environmental context, 快播视频 is ranked relatively high for various United Nation\u2019s (UN) Sustainability Development Goals (SDG) including:<\/p>\n