Chad Johnston Wins Awards
October 27th, 2011: Chad Johnston won two fellowships to support his Ph.D. studies, one by the Environmental Professionals Organization of Connecticut and one by the School of Engineering.
Source: http://news.engr.uconn.edu/koerner-family-grad-fellows-selected.php
Marisa and EWB Win EPA P3 Award
Marisa and the Engineers Without Borders at UConn won the EPA P3 award (People, Prosperity and the Planet) to conduct research on sustainable erosion control in La Prusia, Nicaragua.
Source: http://news.engr.uconn.edu/epa-grant-to-support-ewb-work-in-nicaragua.php
Students Graduate
May 8th , 2010: Aaron Ting and Matt Rood graduated and went on to work in the industry. We wish them a lot of success!!
Marisa Invited to Talk at Company Workshop
Marisa was invited to talk to Schnabel Engineering company workshop in Gaithersburg, VA. “Geochemistry: a science for dusty classrooms or a living, breathing beast in geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering?”. People seemed to see the beast!
Marisa Presents Graduate Student Work
March 21-25th, 2010: Marisa presented Chad’s, Geeta’s and Aaron’s work at the American Chemical Society National Meeting in San Francisco.
Marisa Organizes Technical Session
February 20-24, 2010: Marisa is organizing the technical session “Geoenvironmental Processes for Soil Remediation and Geohazard Mitigation” at GeoFlorida 2010
Source: http://content.asce.org/conferences/geoflorida2010/
Students Graduate
Geeta Dahal and Xiaolong Zhang graduated. Geeta is now working with the company that collaborated on her M.Sc. thesis and Xiaolong is doing his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering. Good luck to both of them.
Marisa Offers ASCE Webinar
Marisa offered an ASCE webinar entitled “Geochemistry: An important tool for GeoEnvironmental Engineers with over 70 attendees.
Graduate Student Presents Research at UMass Amherst
October 30th, 2009: Matt presented his research at the Northeast Geotechnical Graduate Research Symposium at UMass Amherst
Graduate Students Present Research
Chad and Aaron presented their research at the 36th Northeast Regional ACS Meeting (NERM)