Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences

Scholarship Recipients Awarded Blue Ridge Foothills District Scholarship

Congratulations to Lexi Mikowicz, a junior in Environmental Engineering, and 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). Laura’s research topic generally focus on photochemical destruction of PFAS in complex water matrices. The scholarship is an integral part of the BRFD’s […]

National Teaching Assistant Award awarded to EEES Graduate Students

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 […]

EEES Student wins AWWA Student Poster at ACE24

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 Students Receive CECAS College Awards

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 […]

Kroeger Awarded Mendenhall Postdoctoral Fellowship

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 […]

Casso-Hartmann Wins Best Poster Award at ACS Conference

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.

Mikowicz Wins Two Prestigious Scholarships

Lexi Mikowicz was selected by the Water Environment Association of South Carolina (WEASC) as the recipient of this year’s Jimmy Wigglesworth Scholarship Endowment.

EEES Graduate Students Win Prestigious Environmental Scholarships

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 […]

EEES Hosts Notable 2023 Awards Ceremony

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 […]