Sara Denison is a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rice University. As a trainee with the Baylor-Rice Superfund Program, she works on advancing sustainable remediation technologies to treat soils contaminated with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), focusing on methods that eliminate health risks while supporting ecosystem restoration. She is also part of the Nanotechnology Enabled Water Treatment (NEWT) Center, where her research centers on innovative approaches to hazardous waste remediation, particularly in using adsorptive-catalytic processes to remove persistent contaminants like PFAS from water and soil.