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2007 Student Paper/Poster Contest Winners

2007 student paper/poster winners: (back row, from left) Tony van der Vooren, A&WMA President; Wally Qiu; Aisha Tzillah; Sang-Sup Lee; Brooke Anderson; Cash Fitzpatrick; Brad Waldron, Student Program Coordinator; (front row, from left) Nagaveena Raman; Lindsay Yee; Prachi Nimse; and Zaher Hashisho.

UndergradUate1st Place (US$500)Wally Qiu, University of Alberta, The Southern Prairie Ammonia Measurement Network (SPAM): Improving Our Understanding of Atmospheric Ammonia in the Canadian Prairies2nd Place (US$300)Cash Fitzpatrick, California Polytechnic State University, Use of AerMOd, SUrfer, and gOOgle eArTh to Assess Impacts of Air Quality on a Community: Alaskan Case Study3rd Place (US$200)Lindsay Yee, University of California, Riverside, Ozone and Secondary Organic Aerosol (SOA) formation from Agricultural Pesticides

Master’s1st Place (US$500)Nagaveena Raman, University of Toledo, derivation of equations for Maximum Concentration Using the AerMOd dispersion equations2nd Place (US$300)Prachi Nimse, University of Toledo, Sensitivity of Various Parameters on the Individual Source Attribution of Visibility Impairment for Class I Areas Using the CAlPUff Model3rd Place (US$200)Aisha Tzillah, University of Cincinnati, The emissions of Criteria Air Pollutants from Biodiesel fuel Usage

doctoral1st Place (US$500)Zaher Hashisho, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, A Novel Approach to dampen Concentration fluctuations Upstream of Biofilters and Oxidizers2nd Place (US$250 tie)Brooke Anderson, Yale University, A National Study of Weather-related MortalityElisabeth Gilmore, Carnegie Mellon University, The Air Quality and human health effects of Using Installed Backup generators for Meeting Peak electricity demand

sUstainability1st Place (US$500)Elisabeth Gilmore, Carnegie Mellon University, The Air Quality and human health effects of Using Installed Backup generators for Meeting Peak electricity demand2nd Place (US$300)Sang-Sup Lee, University of Cincinnati, Control of Mercury emissions from Coal-fired Power Plants Using a Novel Sorbent3rd Place (US$200)Prachi Nimse, University of Toledo, Sensitivity of Various Parameters on the Individual Source Attribution of Visibility Impairment for Class I Areas Using the CAlPUff Model

A&WMA’s Student Chapter Awards recognize outstanding achievement by a student chapter. The

2006–2007 winners were announced at the Honors & Awards Luncheon held during the 100th Annual Conference & Exhibition in Pittsburgh, PA.

large institUtion:University of Floridafaculty Advisor: Dr. Chang-Yu WuAccepting the award for the University of Florida was Ying Li.

MediUM institUtion:University of Cincinnatifaculty Advisor: Dr. Tim KeenerAccepting the award for the University of Cincinnati was Aisha Tzillah.

sMall institUtion:Western Washington University—Huxley College of the Environmentfaculty Advisor: Ruth HarperAccepting the award for Huxley College was Kathryn Spaulding.

Honorable Mention for a new cHapter:Asian Institute of Technology

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A&WMA congratulates the winners of the Student Paper/Poster Contest held during the 100th Annual Conference & Exhibition in Pittsburgh, PA.

2006–2007 Student Chapter Award Winners

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A&WMA takes pride in supporting the future environmental leaders of our world in research, teaching, engineering, and environmental

practice. For more than a decade, the Association has awarded 96 scholarships totaling US$334,750 to the most promising environmental students. This year, A&WMA is pleased to add US$32,000 to the above total by recogniz-ing the following 12 students chosen by the Scholarship Awards Committee. In addition, two special Centennial Scholarship Awards were awarded to commemorate the Association’s 100th anniversary and to further the experi-ence of students studying in innovative fields.

In recognition of excellence in innovation and providing a forward approach to improvement for the next 100 years:

Heather Wright, Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Michigan Technological University—US$10,000 Centennial Scholarship Award

Robert Cameron, Ph.D., Horticulture,Center for Green Roof Research, Penn State University—US$7000 Centennial Scholarship Award

In recognition of excellence in air quality research and study:

Samar Moussa, Ph.D., Chemistry, University of California, Irvine—US$8000 and the Milton Feldstein Memorial Scholarship

Yu-Mei Hsu, Ph.D., Environmental Engineering, University of Florida —US$6000

Nicholas Ashley, Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Louisiana State University —US$2000

Ying Xu, Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Technological Institute—US$2000

2007–2008 A&WMA Scholarship Award Recipients

In recognition of excellence in waste management research and study:

Tanapon Phenrat, Ph.D., Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University—US$4000 and the Jacqueline Shields Memorial Scholarship

Bryan Staley, Ph.D., Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, North Carolina State University—US$2000

In recognition of excellence in environmental manage-ment/policy research and study:

Obidimma Ezezika, M.S., Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University —US$2000

Conor Reynolds, Ph.D., Interdisciplinary Studies, University of British Columbia —US$2000

In recognition of excellence in sustainability research and study:

Chi Hoang, Ph.D., Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, University of Texas at Austin—US$2000

Rachel Wagner, Ph.D., Environmental Engineering, Penn State University —US$2000

Full-time graduate students who are pursuing courses of study and research leading to careers in air quality, waste management, environmental management, and/or sustain-ability can obtain a scholarship application for the 2008–2009 academic year by visiting A&WMA’s Web site at www.awma.org/education or by calling A&WMA Member Services at 1-800-270-3444. Scholarship applications must be submitted online by 5:00 p.m. Eastern, January 11, 2008. Awards will be announced in March 2008.

If you are interested in making a donation to the A&WMA Scholarship Endowment Trust Fund please visit www.awma.org/education to download a Scholarship Donation Brochure, or contact A&WMA Member Services at 1-800-270-3444. Contributions are tax deductible.