Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences

Kiekhaefer selected for national TA award

Becca Kiekhaefer, an M.S. candidate in the Hydrogeology program, was selected by the National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT) as one of this year’s winners of the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. NAGT recognizes outstanding teaching assistants in geoscience education with up to 30 awards annually. Both undergraduate and graduate teaching assistants are eligible for the […]

Adjunct Looney received the Donald A. Orth Lifetime Award of Merit

Dr. Brian Looney, an adjunct professor in EEES, received the Donald A. Orth Lifetime Award of Merit from the Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL). During his tenure at SRNL, Looney developed and deployed numerous environmental characterization, remediation, and monitoring technologies. He has advanced a conceptual framework that defines environmental target zones based on their chemical […]

Engineers Without Borders wins CU Organization of the Year

CU’s chapter of Engineers Without Borders wins CU Organization of the Year The Clemson University chapter of Engineers Without Borders (CU-EWB), advised by Dr. Mark Schlautman, was awarded Clemson University Organization of the Year by ODK. ODK is a national honors society that places an emphasis on leadership, and the Clemson chapter each year gives […]

Castle researches wetlands to clean Canadian mining water

Dr. James Castle in EEES, along with his colleague Dr. John Rodgers in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Conservation, will let the politicians and interest groups fight over the efficacy of extracting oil from tar sands while they and their graduate students toil away in a basement laboratory solving a much more vexing problem: […]