On May 1, 2020, Jarad Cochran was awarded the Karri Casner Environmental Sciences Fellowship. Jarad, who is a second year Ph.D. student under Dr. Olga Tsyusko, will use these funds to determine the toxicity of chitosan-coated iron nanoparticles on the model soil nematode, Caenorhabditis elegans. Additionally, he will assess the potential to treat antimicrobial resistant pathogens with these particles.