Susan Murcott of the MIT D-Lab will be joining us for a lecture on Tuesday, November 2 at 5 pm in 1-246. Susan is an old friend of the Water Club who is an environmental engineer with a focus on water. She will speak about “Cool Careers in Water and Environment” for about 30 min, followed by questions for another 30 min. 

A lecturer in D-Lab for the past 12 years, Susan has led MIT student teams in over 25 countries spanning five continents. In 2014-2015, she led the water filter evaluation of the Comprehensive Initiative on Technology Evaluation (CITE), a five-year USAID-funded project, to evaluate technologies for the poor. From 2005 to the present, she founded and helped establish the non-profit organization, Pure Home Water, with Ghanaian partners, which has built a ceramic pot filter factory to provide safe drinking water in northern Ghana. From 2002 to the present, she has been the principal investigator of a team, in partnership with the Environment and Public Health Organization in Kathmandu, Nepal, that invented and has widely disseminated the KanchanTM Arsenic Filter, as well as being involved in MIT-funded emergency relief following the 2015 Nepal earthquake. 

Susan has featured in MIT News several times, most recently this March: https://news.mit.edu/2021/susan-murcott-water-0321​

We are very excited to host Susan for the first in-person Water Club Lecture after a long time, and look forward to seeing you all there!

Best,

Devashish & Anselmo