Barbara Krieger-Brockett
2006 Catalyst Article
Barbara Krieger-Brockett spent the first year of her semi-retirement just as busy as before! This is the first year of a three-year educational grant from FIPSE, Department of Education. The grant sponsors U.S. graduate students, provides them with a stipend and faculty advisors, and allows them to study at one of three European Union (EU) universities—Graz in Austria, Gent in Belgium, and Toulouse in France. Barbara spent the first year of the grant preparing and teaching at an international intensive course on renewable resources and clean technologies held in Toulouse, France, during April. As usual, the French planned over three cultural outings, excellent meals (with local wines!), as well as showed participants a well-organized course and superb lab facilities. In exchange, the first five graduate students from the EU arrived in September—four from Belgium and one from France. Barbara is enjoying being their advisor, although some are doing research projects with other professors.
Barbara also has been writing; finishing papers on the topic of microbial bioremediation with Yinjie Tang (now a postdoc at UC Berkeley), and beginning a book chapter on renewable resources from the marine environment. She is keeping up with the changes at the UW, and still can be found in her office.
