Jacelyn Rice-Boayue, Ph.D.
Jacelyn Rice-Boayue, Ph.D.
Dr. Jacelyn Rice-Boayue is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Engineering Technology and Construction Management in the College of Engineering, UNC Charlotte. She previously completed postdoctoral training at Duke University within the Center for the Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology. During that time, she also served as a Fulbright Scholar at the International Institute of Water and Environmental Engineering in Burkina Faso. She received her Ph.D. and M.S. in Environmental Engineering from Arizona State University.
Her research is primarily focused on developing integrated models for water quality assessment towards public and ecosystem health. However, Dr. Rice’s prior research also includes interdisciplinary work using social science techniques to quantify public perceptions of de facto reuse, modeling case study level connections within the water energy nexus, and assessing the release of nanomaterials into the environment. Her past work focusing on potential ecological impacts from treated wastewater discharges, is published in Nature Geoscience and featured online in The Scientist and Inside Science.