Category: Student Awards

Undergraduate Awards Environmental Engineering Thomas M. Keinath Environmental Engineering Award Presented to one senior and one junior majoring in environmental engineering based on outstanding achievements and possessing personal attributes necessary for successful accomplishments in this discipline.  The award is given in honor of Dr. Thomas M. Keinath who served as a faculty member, department chair, […]

EEES celebrates another great student achievement. William Cummings, Hydrogeology major, has been recognized by National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT) as an outstanding Teaching Assistant; one of the recipients for their 2025 awards. The graduate student awards are funded by NAGT. NAGT recognizes outstanding teaching assistants in geoscience education with up to 30 awards annually. […]

Congratulations to five-(5) amazing EEES students Lexi Mikowicz, Laura DiGiacomo, EIT, Joshua Banks and Michael Knapp, PE on being a 2024 recipient of the SCAWWA WEASC Blue Ridge Foothills District Scholarship (BRFD). Laura Digiacomo, a Ph.D. student in Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences on being a 2025 recipient of the Blue Ridge Foothills District Scholarship (BRFD). […]

Jack Horvath and Max Gordon, MS candidates in Hydrogeology, have been awarded the National Association of Geoscience Teachers Outstanding TA Award. This award honors undergraduate and graduate students who have demonstrated excellence as Teaching Assistants. Dr. Alan Coulson nominated Jack and Max based on their performance as TAs in undergraduate Geology courses. Both Jack and […]

Congratulations to Hatice Yildirim  for winning first place in the student poster competition at the American Water Works Association’s (AWWA) Annual Conference and Expo (ACE24), held in Denver, Colorado from June 8 to 11, 2024.  It was a wonderful showing at the national level for South Carolina! In addition, it was a great and historic week at […]

EEES undergraduate student in Geology, William Cummings, received the CECAS award for being this year’s Outstanding Senior in the School of Computing and Applied Sciences! See more about what William said about his applied science journey. Click on this link to see the video. EEES undergraduate student in Biosystems Engineering, Teague McCracken, received the CECAS […]

Undergraduate Awards Environmental Engineering Thomas M. Keinath Environmental Engineering AwardPresented to one senior and one junior majoring in environmental engineering based on outstanding achievements and possessing personal attributes necessary for successful accomplishments in this discipline. The award is given in honor of Dr. Thomas M. Keinath who served as a faculty member, department chair, and […]

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.

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 […]

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.