Category: Student 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 […]

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.

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

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]