Picking up an article from the Fulton Schools website’s news section, Space Daily reports on research aimed at preventing the damage caused by large communities of bacteria, known as biofilms, that grow in water systems on Earth and in space. Paul Westerhoff, a professor in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, part of the Fulton Schools, is leading a multi-university effort looking at using cost-effective ultraviolet light as a safer alternative to disinfecting chemicals in ways that prevent biofilm growth. The research team’s Germicidal Ultraviolet Light Biofilm Inhibition experiment is among projects recently launched on a NASA  mission to the International Space Station.