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Jenna Jambeck, Environmental Engineer, 2022 MacArthur Fellow, Athens, GA

Jenna Jambeck

Regents Professor, 2022 MacArthur Fellow, Georgia Athletic Association Distinguished Professor in Environmental Engineering,

New Materials Institute, Circularity Informatics Lab, College of Engineering, University of Georgia, Morgan Stanley Plastic Waste Resolution Senior Researcher

Twitter: @JambeckResearch

Instagram: jennajambeck

  • Today on Athens News Matters, Classic Center Director Paul Cramer on the latest developments in the saga of the Classic Center Arena.Plus, helping humans grieve for lost pets. Those stories and more, coming up on Athens News Matters.
  • On this Aquathread: what circularity means on the ground in cities and how it can help prevent plastic pollution; how community-level data collection and other efforts from the ground-up can inform the global plastics treaty; how and why Taylor transitioned from running the plastics program at the National Geographic Society to her Ph.D. in environmental engineering; and what lengths (and heights) Husky dogs will go to join a slip and slide party.