SIU research team helps on journey to deeper space exploration By Jamilah Lewis, Staff Reporter November 19, 2021
Saluki Sanitizer: Fermentation Institute produces hand sanitizer for SIU By Janae Mosby, Reporter August 21, 2020
![Zachary Gutenkauf and Jennifer Pierce start research as part of the SIU research team that helps to feed astronauts in Life Science III at SIU Nov. 8, 2021 in Carbondale, Illinois. “This is a multidisciplinary team requiring many specialties. Currently we are in phase one, which is the NASA proposal phase. We are waiting on the phase two ‘rules’ for proof of the concept, which are anticipated to be revealed tomorrow at 10am on NASA TV [Tuesday November 9, 2021]. Once we know the rules for phase two, then the game is afoot,” director of the coal and energy research and a professor in geology, Ken B. Anderson, said.](https://dailyegyptian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/NASAresearch1-900x796.jpg)
![Mandy Rothert, lab manager at the Fermentation Science Institute at SIU, describes testing sanitizers for impurities in the Fermentation Science Lab Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020. “This is where we were testing some commercial hand sanitizer and we were [looking for] any of the byproducts, the impurities, in the ethanol, I don’t know if you’ve ever noticed how some hand sanitizers smell like bad tequila, so that’s all of those byproducts in there that we don’t want,” Rothert said, “we use this to measure the alcohol percentage to make sure that we were at 80 percent.”](https://dailyegyptian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/K3A8095-EditRGB-900x616.jpg)
