Jessica Kobayashi (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) received an Idea Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence Undergraduate Research Opportunity award. She is working with professor Gary Cerefice to study the potential use of commercial graphite to extract uranium from seawater. If successful, the research could prove graphite to be a lower-cost material for removing uranium from the oceans, as well as a material for protecting groundwater and drinking water from radiologic contamination.