Biosystems Engineering Students Win Regional Award
April 12, 2024
The Biosystems Engineering Club was voted “ASABE Southeastern Chapter of the Year” at the organization’s regional student rally held in Raleigh, NC, March 22-24, 2024.
April 12, 2024
The Biosystems Engineering Club was voted “ASABE Southeastern Chapter of the Year” at the organization’s regional student rally held in Raleigh, NC, March 22-24, 2024.
April 9, 2024
Emma Kroeger was recently awarded a prestigious Mendenhall postdoctoral fellowship with the US Geological Survey (USGS). She is in the final stages of completing her Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences under the supervision of Dr. Alex Pullen. Emma will be working for the USGS in Alaska on a project titled Integrated Isotopic Mapping […]
April 9, 2024
Lisseth Casso-Hartmann earned a best poster award at the American Chemical Society (ACS) conference, held March 17-21, 2024, in New Orleans. The title of her poster is Electrochemical Detection of Salmonella enterica in Hydroponic Systems.
February 13, 2024
Lexi Mikowicz was selected by the Water Environment Association of South Carolina (WEASC) as the recipient of this year’s Jimmy Wigglesworth Scholarship Endowment.
September 6, 2023
Laura DiGiacomo and Claire Funk were awarded scholarships from the Environmental Research & Education Foundation (EREF) and the Environmental Engineering & Science Foundation (EESF), respectively. EREF is a national organization with the mission to develop and evaluate new approaches to managing municipal solid waste through advances in scientific research and to provide scholarships to America’s […]
July 31, 2023
The EEES Departmental Awards ceremony is a wonderful rite of Spring. Each year we honor the “best of the best” at a luncheon in the Hendrix Center. This year was no exception. You can find the complete list of our 2023 undergraduate and graduate student award winners here. What made this year a notch above […]
July 1, 2022
Biosystems Engineering students Frank Jeffries (junior) and Ethan White (sophomore) split the top prize at the Undergraduate Student Poster competition at the Appalachian State Energy Summit held in Boone, NC June 8-10. Frank’s poster title was Biological Hydrogen Production by Fermentation and Ethan’s was Design of Sediment-Based Microbial Fuel Cells (co-authored by BE student Zachary […]
June 15, 2022
Gavin Gleasman, a doctoral student working with Dr. Kelly Lazar, was awarded a research grant from the Southeastern section of the Geological Society of America (GSA). According to Blair R. Tormey, Secretary/ Treasurer – Southeast Section, GSA, the selection committee received “. . . numerous meritorious proposals and limited funds made for a very competitive […]
May 10, 2022
A team of four Environmental Engineering students, Hope Owens, Nina Del Rio, Derek Kosydar, and Ryan Fisher, took home the Best Presentation award and second prize overall in the Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) International Design Competition. The team of undergraduate students competed against teams from other universities, including those with MS and […]
May 9, 2022
Michael Smith, a Senior in Biosystems Engineering, was awarded a prestigious 2022 Fulbright Scholarship. Soon after he graduates in May 2022, Michael will be heading to the Czech Republic where he will be teaching English at a technical or agricultural high school and while doing so, he hopes to work in concepts related to sustainability. […]