On Nov. 30, 2018, Sean Norman, associate professor of environmental health sciences and director of the Molecular Microbial Ecology Lab at the University of South Carolina, was awarded $600K from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Norman used the grant to study socio-ecological coupling of antibiotic resistance and the potential risk of human exposure to antibiotic resistant pathogens in bioaerosols generated during munciple wastewater treatment.